Semis continue today

ExxonMobil/Petra Under-14 league

An extra day of football action has been added to the ExxonMobil/Petra Under-14 football league, giving patrons and students an extended schedule to feed their appetites.
The semi-final action will go down at the Ministry of Education Ground, Carifesta Avenue, this afternoon. In the first match-up, the young ladies of East Ruimveldt Secondary and South Ruimveldt Secondary will face off to book their spot in the final. While East Ruimveldt has had their share of ups and downs in the tournament, they will look to upset the seemingly strong South Ruimveldt team. South, on the other hand, have had massive victories in the competition and are striving to meet Charlestown in the final of the competition.
In the second match-up, which is slated for 16:00h, one hour after the first, the males hailing from Buxton Youth Developers will meet Chase’s Academic Foundation in the clash of the tournament. The two teams which are considered the best of the best in the tournament are both coming off of enormous victories in their round-robin segment and quarter-finals. And as such, the excitement for this semi-final should mirror the exhilaration that World Cup fans felt during the Brazil v Belgium match-up.
Last Saturday, the first two semi-finals were hosted at the same venue. In the girls’ category, Charlestown held out in a goalless game against New Campbellville Secondary to go through to the finals on penalties. Later on, North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary played a great hand of defence tactics to restrict St John’s College’s goal scoring. The 1-0 game meant that North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary will now wait to see whether they will meet Chase Academy or Buxton Youth Developers in the final on Saturday, June 21.
Owing to the Guyana Football Federation hosting its camps for the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys U-14 Challenge Trophy and the CONCACAF Girls U-15 Championship selection, many of the players in the ExxonMobil/Petra tournament were restricted from leaving the camp, which was housed at the Leonora Track and Field Centre from July 8 to 16. Today’s action will kick off at 15:00h.