Milo Schools’ Under-18 Football tournament ... Zion Gray’s hat-trick fires Sir Leon Lessons to 1st championship title

Milo Schools’ Under-18 Football tournament … Zion Gray’s hat-trick fires Sir Leon Lessons to 1st championship title

Apr 01, 2018 Sports

Sir Leon Lessons! 2018 Milo Schools’ Football Tournament Champions.

The grand finale of the Milo Schools’ Under-18 football tournament which was supported by the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) through the theme ‘Stop Gender Based Violence’ turned out to be everything it promised to be and more, as Sir Leon lessons demolished Buxton Youth Development 5-1.
Playing under lights at the Ministry of Education (MOE) ground on CARIFESTA Avenue last night, Sir Leon’s Zion Gray scored the first of his hat-trick after tapping in from close range. This was possible after Gray’s teammate Julian Bamfield had his effort from a free kick spilled by Buxton’s goalkeeper in the 2nd minute of the match. The initial goal of the match was greeted with spirited celebrations from the players and fans who invaded the pitch.
However, it took Buxton’s Shamash London 16 minutes after to find an equalizer and quell the premature celebrations from the Georgetown based team, fans.
The score remained deadlocked for the duration of the half, before Sir Leon Lessons’ hat-trick hero, Zion Gray, fired them into the lead shortly after the resumption of play in the second half. Evidently, the winners began to play with more fluidity and scored three more unanswered goals to add daylight between themselves and the losing finalists, Buxton.
Alwin Franklin netted in the 59th minute to carry the score to 3-1 before Gray completed his hat-trick in the 63rd minute and Teon Forde topped it off with a goal, two minutes into stoppage time to complete the 5-1 rout and help his team to their maiden Milo Schools’ Football Tournament victory.

Sir Leon Lessons’ Zion Gray holding off two Buxton players while controlling the ball on the right wing during his hat-trick, game winning performance last night at the MOE ground in the Milo Schools football final.

Two players from the opposing sides (Sir Leon Lessons and Buxton Youth Development) prepare to challenge for an air ball during last night’s Milo Schools’ football final at the MOE ground.

Speaking to the press after the match and despite having a major impact on the game, Gray posited, “We (Sir Leon Lessons) came out as one and played one. The past couple weeks we have been training hard and everything that coachman thought us, we executed to win as one.”
Sir Leon Lessons pocketed $500,000 for winning the tournament, while Buxton received $300,000, all of which will go towards a school project of their choice.
Meanwhile, in the scheduled third place playoff before the finale, Annandale Secondary won by virtue of walkover after Lodge Secondary were a no-show. The respective prize money is $200,000 and $100,000.