CLARENDON PARK, Clarendon — Traditional parish rivals Vere Technical High School and Clarendon College brought their 2015 schoolboy football season to an end on December 19 with the inaugural Wayne “Wonder Boy” Wonder Memorial Trophy game at Juici Patties Park.

Wayne Wonder, who died suddenly in March 2014, was a member of the famous Clarendon College squad coached by Winston Chung-Fah which swept all before them in 1977.

Vere came out on top 2-1 in an evenly contested game at Clarendon Park. Vere took the lead just after the half-time break when Sion Webster headed home a free kick.

Clarendon equalised in the seventy-eighth minute when substitute Zida Whyte went down the left flank and fired home.

However, Vere secured victory six minutes later when Webster netted a left-foot shot.

Dennis ‘Den Den’ Hutchinson, who was a member of the Clarendon College 1977 team, told the Jamaica Observer Central that the plan was to do it every year from now on.

“ We want it to be an annual encounter between the two schools as we have had memorable encounters over the years, from the days of Allan ‘Skill’ Cole and the late Herbert “Deigo” Gordon to the late Wayne ‘Wonder Boy’ Wonder and some of us who are still around,” Hutchinson said.

“Both schools have had friendly rivalry and have produced a number of national representatives,” Hutchinson added.

— Everard Owen