Clarendon College ended the 2023 ISSA football season with an emphatic one sided 4-0 win over first time Manning Cup winners Mona High in the Olivier Shield play off at the national stadium on Wednesday, December 13th.

Christopher Hull scored twice, in three minutes to kill off the game as a contest as the daCosta Cup champions, retained the Olivier Shield, their seventh hold, including sharing it with Dunoon Park Technical in 1998.

Clarendon College’s only blemish this season came in the ISSA Champions Cup when they were out gunned 3-2 by parish neighbours Glenmuir High who they thrashed 6-2 in the daCosta Cup final a week later.

While the game did not match up to the hectic pace or brilliance of the daCosta or Manning Cup finals, Clarendon College took their time to get into the game but once they did, it was mostly one way street with Mona High being forced back into their own area for long periods.

Mona High had the first scoring chances but failed to get their shots on target and late in the game as they sought to get back into the game, they ran into an inspired Roshae Burrell in the Clarendon College goal.

Keheim Dixon put Clarendon College in the lead when he was left alone in the Mona High area and headed a corner past goalkeeper Akeem Bernard.

They had to wait until the 69th minute when Deandre Gallimore’s shot from just outside the 18 yards area just dribbled across the line inches from Bernard’s right post with the custodian stranded in the middle of the goal.

Hull then took over when the got to corner just before the Mona goalkeeper and headed the ball into the goal in the 84th minute and three minutes later he made it 4-0 when an acrobatic overhead head as the ball flashed past Bernard.

Rank School DaCosta Cup Ben Francis Olivier Shield Champions Cup Totals
1 Cornwall College 12 7 11 1 31
2 Clarendon College 11 4 7 1 23
3 Rusea's High 11 4 3 0 18
4 ST.E.T.H.S. 5 6 1 12
5 Vere Technical 9 1 6 16
6 Glenmuir High 3 7 1 11
7 Munro College 7 0 19 26
8 Herbert Morrison 2 2 4
9 Garvey Maceo 2 1 3
10 Dinthill 2 0 2
11 Frome 1 1 2
11 St. James High 1 1 2
12 Old Harbour 0 1 1
12 Charlemont High 0 1 1
12 Lennon High 0 1 1
12 St. Mary's College 0 1 1
12 B. B. Coke 0 1 1
13 McGrath High 0 1 1