Tranquility Secondary School, despite being inactive in the Secondary Schools Football League for well over a decade, showed what they were made of by winning the feature Over 50 Intercol Knock Out title at Saturday’s Intercol Football Nostalgia Festival at the St Mary’s College Ground, Serpentine Road, St Clair.
Their players—Kenth Husbands, George Sadlow, Garth Stewart and company rolled back the years with a number of impressive performances on the field to show why they won the North Intercol titles in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1976 as well as the National Intercol in 1974.
The Tranquil men defeated Presentation College (San Fernando) in the final 3-0 with Husbands, Sadlow and Stewart all getting on the scoresheet.
But most of all their participation in the tournament proved to be the main winner as they would have achieved their goal of imparting the passion and spirit of camaraderie at which the game should be played, to the current crop of students at their alma mater.
With their triumph, they dethrone last year’s winner St Benedict’s College which did not make it to the final this year. In the Over-50 League division south giants Naparima secured the title but they had to come from behind to beat close rivals St Benedict’s in the final in sudden-death penalty kicks.
Selwyn Crosby opened the scoring for St Benedict’s before Gerald Sealey equalised to send the game into penalties with the scores tied at one-apiece. In the shoot-out that followed, Sealey got the winning goal to assure his team bragging rights and the title.
Meanwhile a new winner was also crowned in the exciting Under-35 division which featured north zone giants Queen’s Royal College and Tranquil in the final.
Paul Lawrence got the winner for the Royalians (QRC) in a 1-0 result to wrestle the title away from Tranquil which were joint holders of the title with St Anthony’s College last year.
Later in the 35-50 category Belmont edged host school St Mary’s by a similar 1-0 margin, courtesy Kwesi Luke’s item to earn them the title that was being held by St Anthony’s.