Digicel Schools Knockout Football competition 2023: Berbice Educational Institute are Region 6 champs

The Berbice Educational Institute (BEI) have emerged champions of the Digicel Schools Knockout Football competition in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
In the final, played on Monday at the All Saints Ground on Princess Elizabeth Road in New Amsterdam, BEI prevailed 3-2 over Vryman’s Erven Secondary.
The ever-constant Colsis Scipio opened the BEI scoring in the 50th minute, and three minutes later, T’Jon Reid made it 2-nil; but in the 61 minute, Akeem Hosannah pulled one back for Vryman’s Erven.
The game had gone into injury time when Vryman’s Erven found the equalizer off the boot of Keron George, and ecstatic spectators roared in jubilation, but BEI’s Jamal Adams scored in the next minute, just before referee Gladwyn Johnson blew his final whistle, to give BEI the win by a score of 3-2.

Earlier, in the playoff for third place, Tutorial Academy overpowered New Amsterdam Multilateral 4-3 on penalty kicks after the two schools had played to a 1-1 stalemate at the end of regulation time. Xavier Ferreira had scored for New Amsterdam Multilateral, while Jordan Butts had scored for Tutorial Academy.
BEI, Vryman’s Erven Secondary, and Tutorial Academy will now advance to the Round of 24, which will involve schools from seven other regions.
This Digicel inter-school knockout football tournament has returned after a five-year absence. However, the tournament is not as extravagant as before, when all secondary schools in the country were given an opportunity to participate. Only 11 of the 13 secondary schools in Region Six have participated in this year’s competition.