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BHS to take the pride and joy of Berbice to national Pepsi Inter school football finals
The history making Berbice High School (BHS) boys and girls U-15 football teams, which recently won both their segments of the Berbice leg of the Pepsi/ Scotia Bank U-15 Inter Secondary School Football competition, will be looking to create more history when they don their football uniforms and travel to the capitol city to oppose their Georgetown and Linden counterparts in the final segment of the National Pepsi/ Scotia Bank U-15 tournament on Sunday 16th (father’s day) June at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown.
The winning BHS boys and girls teams pose with their teachers after receiving.
BHS had created history by winning both the boys and girls competitions in the New Amsterdam/Canje segment of the tournament, being the first in the country to have accomplished such a feat.
The competition, which is in its third year, is being played for the first time outside of Georgetown with Linden and Berbice being included for the first time. The BHS units had dominated their opponents in the Berbice finals which were played recently at the All Saints Scott Church Ground; Demolishing New Amsterdam Multilateral School (NAMS) 3-0 in the boys segment and needling Berbice Educational Institute (BEI) 1-0 in the girls’ match.
The winners were presented with the respective accolades by competition coordinator Lawrence “Sparrow” Griffith at a simple ceremony in Berbice.
According to coordinator Griffith the other teams to qualify in the competition are from Georgetown – Charlestown and Lodge Secondary among the males and Tutorial Academy Secondary School (TASS) among the females. From Linden the two schools are Mackenzie High School and Wisrock Secondary for the females, with BHS shouldering the responsible with both representative teams from the Ancient County.
Griffith stated that the male matches which will involve four schools will be played on a knock out basis, while the three female will engage each other in a round robin encounter.
The day’s action will get kicking at 09:00hrs with BHS opposing TASS in a female match. The next game will be a male encounter between BHS and Charlestown Secondary which will be followed by a match between TASS and Wisburg Secondary. The next game will see Lodge Secondary playing Mackenzie Secondary in a male match, while BHS girls will match skills with Wisburg Secondary in a female game.
The male final will follow. Lodge are the male defending champion. (Samuel Whyte)
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