Defending daCosta Cup and Ben Francis Cup KO champions St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) will be seeking to add to their impressive trophy collection when the Flow-sponsored 2016 schoolboy football season opens this Saturday (September 10) in Montego Bay. STETHS have won the all-rural daCosta five times (1974, 1989, 2009, 2013, 2015) and the all-rural Ben Francis, the last six seasons in a row. Located in Santa Cruz, STETHS have had less success against urban opposition, winning the all-island Olivier Shield only once, in 1999. The new schoolboy football season will open with a triple-header at the Catherine Hall Sports Complex in Montego Bay. Manning Cup champions Jamaica College will first meet St Andrew Technical High School at 2:45 pm, then STETHS will face Black River High at 5:05 pm. St James teams Anchovy High and Cornwall College will meet at 7:00 pm.

Photo shows the STETHS squad just prior to a recent practice match. (Photo: Ainsley Clarke)