Hearts of Oaks Masters Football Club in collaboration with Sherlon Hetemyer and family will run off the Sherlon Hetemyer/Shaun Nurse Inter Secondary Independence Anniversary Football tournament for school in New Amsterdam.
The tournament will begin on Monday and run for one week with the final to be contested on Friday.
All matches will be played at the All Saints Scott’s Church Ground and will feature six schools, the teams being divided into two groups.
Group A teams are Vryman’s Erven Secondary (VES), Tutorial Academy Secondary (TAS) and School of The Nations (SOTN) while Group B is made up of Berbice High School (BHS), Berbice Educational Institute (BEI), Canje and New Amsterdam Multilateral Secondary (NAMS).
On Monday VES will play TAS with BHS taking on NAMS. On Tuesday, VES match skills with SOTN, BHS lock horns with BEI. Wednesday’s matches pit TAS against SOTN and NAMS play BEI.
The respective Group winners and runners-up of the two groups will advance to the semifinals on Thursday, with the winner of one group laying the runner-up of the other group.
The two winners will then meet in the grand finals on Friday with the losers playing in the third place play off.
Trophies are at stake for the winning and runner-up teams with outstanding individual players also to be rewarded.
Each participating school will also receive one football. Games will be played for one hour. Coordinator is Neil ‘Grizzly’ Humphrey. (Samuel Whyte)