Jamaica schools: KC start defence of Cup (15 Jan 1998)

January 15, 1998

Jamaica schools: KC start defence of Cup

The Gleaner

CRICKET: Defending champions Kingston College will be seeking to open the 1998 Corporate Area schoolboys Sunlight Cup cricket season on a winning note when they host Mona High in their opening game at Melbourne Park, Elletson Road today.

Today's other matches (home teams named first): St. Jago vs Bridgeport Comprehensive, Trench Town Comprehensive vs Campion College. All games start at 10:30 a.m.

KC have been placed in Group C along with Ardenne High, Bridgeport Comprehensive, Denham Town Comprehensive, Mona High and St. Jago High.

Group A: Camperdown High, Dunoon Technical, Jamaica College, St. Catherine High, St. George's College, Tivoli Gardens Comprehensive.

Group B: Campion College, Excelsior High, Oberlin High, Trench Town Comprehensive, Waterford Comprehensive, Wolmer's Boys.

Group D: Calabar High, Jonathan Grant High, Kingston Technical, Meadowbrook High, Norman Manley Comprehensive, St. Andrew Technical (STATHS).

Coached by Roy McLean, KC are expected to be among the top four teams this season and should make it into the semi-final round. They will be without star allrounder Marlon Samuels who will miss at least the first two rounds of the competition. Samuels is a member of the West Indies youth team now playing in the Under-19 World Cup in South Africa.

Samuels produced a magnificent performance in the Sunlight Cup final last year to power KC to victory over Jonathan Grant High at Melbourne Oval, taking six-wickets and scoring 118.

The other teams to beat this season will be Wolmer's who will parade young all-rounder Carlton Baugh Jnr., who was named best wicketkeeper in the Carib Cement West Indies Under-15 tournament and who was a part of the President's Cup trials; Jonathan Grant High with Tamar Lambert and Andre O'Sullivan and Excelsior High who remain strong although they will be without top player and captain Chris Gayle who is also in South Africa with the West Indies Youth team.

Tivoli Gardens Comprehensive and Meadowbrook High return after a one year break.

Other teams which should do well are St. Catherine High, Waterford Comprehensive, St. Jago High and Campion College.

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