Three dif­fer­ent play­ers were on tar­get as the Cor­nell Glen-coached St. Mary's Col­lege whipped vis­i­tors Mal­ick Sec­ondary 3-1 to re­gain sole pos­ses­sion of the lead in the 17-team Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Boys Pre­mier at St. Mary's Col­lege Ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, in St. Clair on Wednes­day.

Go­ing in­to the match, the 'Saints' as St Mary's Col­lege are known, and the lone un­beat­en team to date in the com­pe­ti­tion shared the lead at the top of the ta­ble with Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary.

How­ev­er, from ear­ly on in St. Clair, the 'Saints' were in­tent on ex­tend­ing their un­beat­en run to re­main at the top, with Nadeem Grant open­ing the scor­ing in the 17th minute be­fore Jae­don Thomas made it 2-0 a minute be­fore the half-time in­ter­val.

The hosts looked to be cruis­ing to all three points un­til Mal­ick Sec­ondary, which was com­ing off a 5-3 tri­umph against Mu­cu­rapo West Sec­ondary, man­aged to cut the deficit in half via Omil­lio Mil­lard in the 77th minute.

But that was close, as the vis­i­tors would get as sub­sti­tute Jay­lon Man­swell sealed all three points for the 'Saints' with their third item in the first minute of in­jury time to move their points tal­ly to 21 from nine match­es, one ahead of a surg­ing St Bene­dict's Col­lege, who held off Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary 2-1 at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va.

St. Bene­dict's Col­lege was gift­ed the lead ten min­utes from the in­ter­val when Sig­nal Hill de­fend­er Kisean Grant turned the ball in­to his own net, which the host took in­to break.

Ten min­utes af­ter the re­sump­tion, Kanye Glas­gow dou­bled St. Bene­dict's lead at 2-0 with his sixth goal in two match­es.

But with nine min­utes left in the match, Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary, win­ners of their pre­vi­ous six match­es af­ter a first day loss to To­ba­go ri­vals Spey­side Sec­ondary, pulled one back through Amar Alle Bac­cas.

How­ev­er, in the end, the "La Ro­maine Li­ons" held on for the valu­able three points to climb in­to the sec­ond spot, two points clear of Fa­ti­ma Col­lege and Sig­nal Hill.

At Queen's Roy­al Col­lege Ground in St. Clair, Fa­ti­ma Col­lege came from be­hind to de­feat the Roy­alians 3-1, who led through Nyrell Roberts' 38th-minute open­er.

Ger­vais Arau­jo drew Fa­ti­ma Col­lege lev­el at 1-1 in the 41st minute for a 1-1 score at the half­time whis­tle be­fore Jonathan Ma­son fired the for­mer cham­pi­ons in­to the lead on the hour mark, fol­lowed by Ja­haem Bai­ley's 78th penal­ty con­ver­sion, his league-best 13th goal of the sea­son, and his se­cured all three points.

The Roylians then had to fin­ish the match with ten play­ers af­ter ref­er­ee Nathalya Williams is­sued a sec­ond yel­low card to goal­keep­er Akin­lade Jones for his foul on Bai­ley, which earned Fa­ti­ma the spot kick; he con­vert­ed.

Down South at Lewis Street, San Fer­nan­do, de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Na­pari­ma Col­lege kept their hopes of re­tain­ing their ti­tle alive with a hard-fought 2-1 win over pro­mot­ed Hillview Col­lege.

Na­pari­ma Col­lege led at the half thanks to Adasa Richard­son's 40th-minute ef­fort, but Cris­tiano Hinds got Hillview Col­lege back on even par in the 78th minute, on­ly for Dono­van Dray­ton to fire home an 86th-minute for Na­pari­ma to move to 16 points and be in the fifth spot with a match in hand on the lead­ers.

Down at St An­tho­ny's Col­lege Ground in West­moor­ings, Ari­ma North Sec­ondary's ti­tle am­bi­tion was dealt a se­vere blow via a 3-1 loss to for­mer pow­er­house St An­tho­ny's Col­lege to slip to the sixth spot.

Start­ing the day in the cel­lar spot, St. An­tho­ny’s Col­lege took a shock lead through Je­heed Ma­gloire as ear­ly as the eighth minute, and ten min­utes lat­er, Mar­ley Ram­dass added an­oth­er.

Ari­ma North Sec­ondary man­aged to cut the lead in the half through Jae­den Samuel from the penal­ty spot in the 30th minute, but four min­utes in­to the sec­ond half, Ram­dass net­ted his sec­ond of the match to earn his team their first win of the sea­son and off the foot of the ta­ble with five points in the 15th spot, ahead of Mu­cu­rapo West Sec­ondary and Trin­i­ty Col­lege Mo­ka on goal dif­fer­ence.

At the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of San Fer­nan­do strolled to a 3-0 win over Spey­side Sec­ondary, with Nathaniel Lewis (16th), Aidan Sinanan-Mc­Don­ald (36th), and Aden Mon­tano (58th) all on tar­get.

Else­where, in match­es with rel­e­ga­tion im­pli­ca­tions, San Juan North Sec­ondary got two goals from Nicholas Cyrus in a 4-1 de­feat of Mu­cu­rapo West Sec­ondary at Bourg Mu­la­tresse in San Juan, while Trin­i­ty Col­lege East and St. Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary fought out an en­ter­tain­ing 3-3 draw at Trin­i­ty East Ground in Trinci­ty.

Wednes­day's re­sults

Na­pari­ma Col­lege 2 (Adasa Richard­son 40th, Dono­van Dray­ton 86th)) vs Hillview Col­lege 1 (Cris­tiano Hinds 78th)

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege 3 (Ger­vais Arau­jo 41st, Jonathan Ma­son 60th, Ja­haem Bai­ley 78th pen) vs Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege 1 (Nyrell Roberts 38th)

San Juan North Sec 4 (Nicholas Cyrus 44th, 52nd, Oma­leke Paul 78th, An­tho­ny Lewis 85th) vs Mu­cu­rapo West Sec 1 (Jay­don Moral­do 33rd og, )

St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege 3 (Je­heed Ma­gloire 8th, Mar­ley Ram­dass 18th, 49th pen) vs Ari­ma North Sec 1 (Jae­den Samuel 30th pen)

St Bene­dict’s Col­lege 2 (Kisean Grant 35th o.g, Kanye Glas­gow 55th)) vs Sig­nal Hill Sec 1 (Amar Alle Bac­cas 81st)

Trin­i­ty Col­lege East 3 (Eli­jah Di­az 45+2, Abay­o­mi Hope 55th, Jimel Jerome o.g 71st) vs St Au­gus­tine Sec 3 (Kadir Selvon o.g 15th, Is­rael Hold­er 18th, Shum­ba Cud­joe 47th)

St Mary’s Col­lege 3 (Nadeem Grant 17th, Jae­don Thomas 44th, Jay­lon Man­swell 90+1) vs Mal­ick Sec 1 (Omil­lio Mil­lard 77th)

Pre­sen­ta­tion (San F’do) 3 (Nathaniel Lewis 16th, Aidan Sinanan-Mc Don­ald 36th, Aden Mon­tano 58th) vs Spey­side Sec 0

Trin­i­ty Col­lege Mo­ka - bye.

Lat­est Stand­ing

Lat­est SS­FL Stand­ing

Teams P W D L GF GA GD Pts

1. St. Mary’s Col­lege 9 6 3 0 23 8 15 21

2. St Bene­dict’s Col­lege 9 6 2 1 25 6 19 20

3. Fa­ti­ma Col­lege 9 5 3 1 26 14 12 18

4. Sig­nal Hill Sec 8 6 0 2 18 9 9 18

5. Na­pari­ma 8 5 1 2 22 8 14 16

6. Ari­ma North Sec 9 5 0 4 21 19 2 15

7. Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege 8 4 2 2 19 10 9 14

8. Spey­side Sec 10 4 1 5 17 28 -11 13

9. Hillview Col­lege 8 3 2 3 22 17 5 11

10. Mal­ick Sec 8 3 0 5 19 21 -2 9

11. San Juan North 8 3 0 5 15 17 -2 9

12. Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege 9 2 3 4 10 13 -3 9

13. St Au­gus­tine Sec 8 2 2 4 17 28 -11 8

14. Trin­i­ty Col­lege Mo­ka 7 2 1 4 11 24 -13 7

15. St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege 8 1 2 5 10 20 -10 5

16. Mu­cu­rapo West Sec 9 1 2 6 11 25 -14 5

17. Trin­i­ty Col­lege East 9 1 2 6 13 32 -19 5