Paul Clarke

Glenmuir High School's midfielder, Ricardo Dennis, shields the ball as he comes under pressure from Devon Mullings of Lacovia, during their daCosta Cup quarter-final match at St Elizabeth Technical High School yesterday. Glenmuir won 3-1.

Paul Clarke, Star Writer

Western Bureau: DaCosta Cup champions St Elizabeth Technical had some luck on their way to a combative 2-0 victory on their home ground, at Santa Cruz, over St James High in their quarter-final match yesterday, needing one point to seal a place in the competition's final four.

They will get that opportunity next week against Petersfield High, who slammed Cedric Titus 9-1 at the Frome Sports Complex to match the champions on six points heading into the deciding fixture.

STETHS were made to wait until the 67th minute to take the lead. Shawn Genus netted to complete the industry of Chris-Andrew Dixon. Donjay Smith then netted his 17th goal of the season when he scored directly from a corner in the 78th minute.

Get cracking

From there on it was STETHS all the way, with Smith in particular looking as dangerous as ever. His flashing drive from a free kick sailed narrowly wide of the target moments later, as the St James defence began to wilt under the home team's barrage.

"It is a satisfying win; we played hard like every other game. We had to wait until the second half to really get cracking and in the end we came away victorious," said Omar Wedderburn, the STETHS coach.

"Now our attention must turn to next week's top-of-the-table clash against Petersfield, as it stands we need another positive result for the semis," he added.

In the first encounter of the Santa Cruz double-header, after promising much, Lacovia were smacked 3-1 by the highly efficient Glenmuir, who now hold pole position to advance to the semi-finals from Zone P.

Cornwall bounced back to tag Old Harbour 2-1, leaving themselves a slight chance of advancing.

The motivated Glenmuir contingent clearly was the better side, with their attractive movement and pass that resulted in a convincing win.

The Clarendon-based former champions took a 28th-minute lead when Kevon Lambert scored with a lofted effort from about 35 yards, which flew over Andre Frater in goal for Lacovia.

David Givons latched on to a pass and fired a low across Frater and into the goal as Glenmuir went 2-0 up in the 47th minute.

He was not done and returned to score his second, scoring in the 59th minute of play, as they move to six points after two matches in the round.

Clarendon College, along with STETHS, Petersfield High, Dinthill and Glenmuir all need only a point to progress to the semi-finals and wil know their fate in next week's final quarter-final round of matches.

Yesterday's results

STETHS 2 St James 0

Petersfield 9 Cedric Titus 1

Dinthill 2 Godfrey Stewart 1

Clarendon College 3 Garvey Maceo 2

Cornwall 2 Old Harbour 1

Today's match

Kemps Hill vs Manchester at Juici Field