Kingston College’s (KC’s) victory in the ISSA/FLOW Super Cup is seen by coach Ludlow Bernard as the embodiment of the school motto.

While for St Elizabeth Technical High School’s (STETHS) coach Omar Wedderburn it was a display that left him feeling like he had crashed head first into a wall.

The highly touted KC grasped the Super Cup with a thumping 3-0 win over STETHS on Saturday inside Sabina Park.

It was their last chance of silverware and the boys from North Street turned in a dominant display and ran out easy winners to walk away with a beautiful trophy and $1 million.

Bernard paid tribute to his team after they lifted themselves like the phoenix rising from the ashes after crashing out of the Manning Cup at the semi-final stage the previous Wednesday.

“It is redemption. To lift ourselves after the demise on Wednesday and to come here today to represent Kingston College in a never-say-die attitude… I am very privileged to have worked with a group of boys for the past three years that really embodied the richness of the motto, ‘The brave may fall but never yield’,” Bernard, also a past student of KC, noted.

“It was exemplified with young Mullings (Anthoneil) on the pitch who was down for a little while and there were attempts to even change him, but he said, ‘No Coach, I am not coming off, this is my last game for the season. This is my last game for KC, I am not coming off’. That embodies the KC spirit,” he emphasised.

KC’s top scorer Rashawn Mackison grabbed a hat-trick, netting in the seventh, 44th and 82nd minutes and propelled his school to their first hold on the all-island FLOW Super Cup knockout tournament. It’s was his second three-timer of the competition which won him the Golden Boot award for his six goals in three games.

KC have continued the dominance of the corporate area schools in the four-year “Champions League” of schoolboy football, joining previous winners Jamaica College, St George’s College and Wolmer’s Boys’ School.

Having lost their Walker Cup title to JC and dumped out of the coveted Manning Cup, KC ended their season on a high.

“Everybody gave of their best today. Everybody was determined not to go home empty-handed this season,” said an elated Bernard, who was under tremendous pressure to deliver a trophy this season.

It was a fitting send-off for six of KC’s outstanding players who will be leaving school — Mackison, captain Javain Brown, his defensive partner Davian Shakes, the outstanding rightback Trey Bennett and left back Anthoneil Mullings, along with midfield general Fabian Grant.

“It’s not what we wanted but at least it’s a small token of the hard work that we would have put in throughout the course of the season,” said Bernard.

“We consider this competition to be very significant because it represents an all-island title. You cannot devalue the significance of such a title, so we will embrace it. The trophy is very beautiful and I am looking forward to take it to 2A North Street,” he added.

Meanwhile, for STETHS, it was another disappointment after they crashed out of the daCosta Cup semis on Tuesday.

Top players Demar James, Chris-Andrew Dixon, Alex Thompson and Clifton Woodbine fought desperately to keep STETHS in the game, but coach Omar Wedderburn was left a dejected man.

“As you could see, I don’t think the defenders carried out the instructions to the ‘T’. Working in training coming into the match I was expecting a different result,” said Wedderburn.

“But this is more heartache. Right now, I feel like a car that have a head-on crash into a wall. My heart is not right, right now and my head space…I think I need a vacation to reflect on the season and see where I went wrong,” he explained.

Wedderburn, who has led STETHS admirably over the years, winning a number of titles, revealed there would be an introspection.

“Not for the players, but where I went wrong as a coach. Because when the team win, it is the players and whenever time you lose, it is the coach, so I have to take a self-reflection and see where I went wrong as the coach,” he reiterated.