Jamaica College takes the Olivier Shield

Jamaica College confirmed its dominance of all-island schoolboy football on Saturday afternoon, defeating St. Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) 2-0 in the return leg of the Olivier Shield at Stadium East in Kingston.

Having taken the first leg at STETHS 3-0 at midweek, Saturday's result gave the urban school a 5-0 aggregate win, leaving no doubt as to which team is the better of the two.

STETHS, having won the DaCosta Cup, symbol of rural schoolboy supremacy as well as the Ben Francis Cup, the knockout trophy for rural schools, had gone into the two-way encounter with Jamaica College, the Manning Cup Champion for urban high schools, with a high degree of confidence.

That confidence ebbed away over the course of the two matches, however, with the boys from Old Hope Road in St. Andrew establishing beyond doubt that they are the pre-eminent schoolboy team in Jamaica for 2013.

The only blemish on the season for JC was the school's failure to get into the final of the Walker Cup, which is the knockout championship for the urban schools. That trophy was won by Wolmer's, the team Jamaica College defeated in the final of the Manning Cup.

This is Jamaica College’s 16th outright hold on the Olivier Shield, and the school's 19th overall, the most by any school in the 104 year history of the competition.