Four intriguing quarter-final contests are in store for the second week of the 2016 staging of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/FLOW Super Cup competition, following an explosive start over the weekend.

The four-week long tournament dubbed the “Champions League of Schoolboy Football” remains evenly balanced between the urban and rural area teams, as some 29 goals were scored in the opening round. Wolmer’s Boys’, Kingston College, Excelsior and Bridgeport are left carrying the flag for the Corporate Area teams against their rural counterparts.

Clarendon College, St Elizabeth Technical High School, Cornwall College and Rusea’s High are the daCosta Cup teams that are still in with a chance of pocketing the $1-million grand prize and the new, Italian-designed trophy.

The tournament got under way with high levels of excitement and entertainment on and off the field with vibrant performances by Romaine Virgo and Bugle complementing the games across two venues last Friday and Saturday.

At Sabina Park, Wolmer’s Boys’ scored a 6-0 win over the unseeded Little London last Friday and will meet Kingston College, who got by Vere Technical 2-1 last Saturday. Excelsior High defeated Ocho Rios High 5-0 last Friday and will oppose Clarendon College, who were the surprise 1-0 winners over former champions Jamaica College in a hard-fought matchup last Saturday.

Meanwhile, over at Catherine Hall, Jourdaine Fletcher scored all three goals as Cornwall College beat Denham Town 3-0 last Friday and booked a date with Rusea’s High, who were 3-0 winners over Haile Selassie the following day.

Carlo Redwood, FLOW’s vice-president of marketing and television, is beaming about the prospects of even more entertaining match-ups to come and, by extension, the possibility of more than one rural team getting to the semi-final this year.

“Fantastic opening round; the thing that you can see is the development of the daCosta Cup teams…now you see their pedigree coming out. I think I am most excited about the fact that it is still even between both rural and urban teams now versus the last two years. It is the most exciting thing for me,” Redwood explained.

“The games next week promise to be exciting, some very good matchups with Wolmer’s and KC renewing their rivalry in Super Cup, and there is no bigger place to have that type of rivalry. But like I said, all the matchups are looking very good, so I am excited,” he added.