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<DIV class=HTMLTitle><SPAN id=Ar0340000 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Westmoreland schools rising to the top </SPAN></DIV><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><BR style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 5px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal"><DIV class=HTMLContent style="OVERFLOW: auto"><SPAN id=Ar0340001 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Not so long ago it would have been oxymoronic to describe a daCosta Cup game between Grange Hill and </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0340002 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Petersfield as the feature. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Up until last season, the teams in Zone C, comprising most of the Westmoreland schools, were </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0340003 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">just fodder for the other teams to fatten up points, tally and goal difference once they got to the Inter-Zone round. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0340004 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Like a number of other zones, including zones D, F, G, J, K and L, teams from Zone C were considered to have overachieved if they managed to get past the inter-zone round and into the last eight. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">A quick look at the winners of the daCosta Cup, the second oldest school boys’ football league and the largest in terms of the number of schools and parishes that participate, shows a dominance from western Jamaica and Clarendon. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Up to the 2004 season, western Jamaican schools such as Cornwall College, Rusea’s High, Herbert Morrison Technical, St Elizabeth Technical and Munro College have combined to win 28 titles. Clarendon-based schools like Vere Technical, Clarendon College and Glenmuir have won 15. St Catherine’s Dinthill Technical, which won twice in 1979 and 1981, is the only school not from these areas to have copped the trophy. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">In the three seasons that have been completed since 2003, Westmoreland schools have won the title twice. Frome Technical won it in 2003 and Godfrey Stewart last year. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">This year, Zone C is one of the most competitive, if not the toughest zone, in the daCosta </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0340005 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Cup. Of the five teams, four have proven themselves as serious contenders for a place in the Inter-Zone round and also to go as far as the semi-finals. All the teams, with the exception of Maude McLeod, could be considered serious title contenders, with a little luck here and there. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Frome Technical, which is in Zone B, is a fifth team that will bear watching. They were one of five teams going into yesterday’s round of matches that still had a perfect win record. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Maybe it was no accident that Godfrey Stewart and the Mannings School were in the semi-finals last season. If nothing else, the daCosta Cup has proven cyclical over the years and certain regions have dominated for a certain time. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Munro College and Cornwall Co
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Not so long ago it would have been oxymoronic to describe a daCosta Cup game between Grange Hill and </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0340002 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Petersfield as the feature. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Up until last season, the teams in Zone C, comprising most of the Westmoreland schools, were </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0340003 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">just fodder for the other teams to fatten up points, tally and goal difference once they got to the Inter-Zone round. </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0340004 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Like a number of other zones, including zones D, F, G, J, K and L, teams from Zone C were considered to have overachieved if they managed to get past the inter-zone round and into the last eight. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">A quick look at the winners of the daCosta Cup, the second oldest school boys’ football league and the largest in terms of the number of schools and parishes that participate, shows a dominance from western Jamaica and Clarendon. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Up to the 2004 season, western Jamaican schools such as Cornwall College, Rusea’s High, Herbert Morrison Technical, St Elizabeth Technical and Munro College have combined to win 28 titles. Clarendon-based schools like Vere Technical, Clarendon College and Glenmuir have won 15. St Catherine’s Dinthill Technical, which won twice in 1979 and 1981, is the only school not from these areas to have copped the trophy. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">In the three seasons that have been completed since 2003, Westmoreland schools have won the title twice. Frome Technical won it in 2003 and Godfrey Stewart last year. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">This year, Zone C is one of the most competitive, if not the toughest zone, in the daCosta </SPAN><SPAN id=Ar0340005 style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Cup. Of the five teams, four have proven themselves as serious contenders for a place in the Inter-Zone round and also to go as far as the semi-finals. All the teams, with the exception of Maude McLeod, could be considered serious title contenders, with a little luck here and there. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Frome Technical, which is in Zone B, is a fifth team that will bear watching. They were one of five teams going into yesterday’s round of matches that still had a perfect win record. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Maybe it was no accident that Godfrey Stewart and the Mannings School were in the semi-finals last season. If nothing else, the daCosta Cup has proven cyclical over the years and certain regions have dominated for a certain time. </SPAN>
<SPAN style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: newspaper; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Munro College and Cornwall Co
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