TOLL GATE, Clarendon — Former champions Clarendon College and Glenmuir High recorded impressive victories yesterday at Juici Park in Clarendon to kick-start their push for a place in the semi-finals of the ISSA/LIME daCosta Cup competition.

Playing in the first game of the double-header, Clarendon College thrashed Marcus Garvey Technical 5-0, with Creggton Charlton scoring a brace, to move ahead of Frome Technical — who defeated Garvey Maceo 2-1 on Wednesday — on goal difference in Zone S.

Glenmuir were less explosive than their parish mates in the feature game, but turned in a hugely disciplined performance to upstage the previously unbeaten Cornwall 2-0.

The Warren Simpson-conditioned outfit got their goals through midfielder Kevon Lambert, who fired home a first-half penalty, and the livewire Ricardo Dennis — who punished Cornwall with a swift counter-attack late in the second half.

Glenmuir now join Lacovia High, who stopped Old Harbour High 3-1, at the top of Zone P.

“The game plan was to neutralise Cornwall’s strength and manipulate their weakness. We did that today,” said Simpson.

He added: “For the most, they (the players) followed instructions, but there are times when we lapsed and that put us under some amount of pressure, which is likely against a good team like Cornwall College. But they really did well today (yesterday) and I must say well done to the entire coaching staff.”

As Simpson alluded to, Cornwall created quite a bit of opportunities but were let down in the final third. Coach Dean Weatherly, who also took issue with the officiating, said they paid the price for faulty finishing.

“I don’t really like to talk about referees, but they must be more consistent in what they are doing,” said Weatherly. “These (players) are not professionals. They are adolescents, so when a call goes against them it can play on their (psyche).”

But he added: “On the other side, we got a number of chances and didn’t convert them. I can probably count on my one hand how many chances Glenmuir created, but we didn’t take ours, and when you play like that this is what normally happens.”