Jermaine Barnaby

Waterford High's Shamar Brooks (left) keeps a close watch on Kingston College's Lincoln Henry during their ISSA/LIME Manning Cup match at Kingston College yesterday. Waterford won 4-2.

Shayne Fairman, STAR Writer

Kingston College (KC), with new coach Neil Harrison at the helm, suffered a 4-2 home defeat to Waterford High yesterday in the ISSA/LIME Manning Cup football competition.

The North Street-based school, which fired coach Lenny Hyde on Monday, dropped to third in Group A and must beat lowly Campion College in a rescheduled match to advance to the second round of the competition.

KC are currently on 12 points, one behind Waterford. Still in disarray following a 7-0 drubbing by St George's College last Saturday, KC went two goals down after just eight minutes.

Anthony Seymore opened the scoring for Waterford in the third minute and Shane Watson doubled his team's advantage in the eighth minute.

Ace midfielder Kashane Jones gave KC some hope when he scored in the ninth minute, but strikes from Javaughn Jones (54th) and Watson with his second in the 68th put Waterford out of reach.

KC pulled a goal back on 90 minutes courtesy of Lincoln Henry.

Waterford's two-goal hero Watson was satisfied with performance. "It was a good performance. I worked on my finishing in training. I am glad I executed well," he told STAR Sports. The player has seven goals in the competition. Meanwhile, coach Jermaine Thomas lauded the team's win. "Good performance from my boys. We haven't been scoring a lot of goals, but to score four today against KC is good," he said.

"We are hoping Campion beat them and we qualify," he added.

Meanwhile, interim coach, Neil Harrison, bemoaned his team's loss.

"It is a difficult task to take over at a time like this. The principal asked me to so I decided to help out," he said. "We gave up easy goals so Waterford got the momentum going.We have to fight harder in our next game," added Harrison.

In a Group B game, title contenders Charlie Smith High qualified for the second stage courtesy of a 7-0 demolition of Vauxhall High. Vice-captain Odane Samuels scored a hat-trick for the winners while Kurt Hibbert score a brace.

In a surprising result in Group A St George's College lost their unbeaten tag when they went down 1-0 to José Marti.

Yesterday's results

Group A

José Marti 1 St George's College 0

Kingston College 2 Waterford 4

Group B

Charlie Smith 7 Vauxhall 0

Group D

Haile Selassie 0 Camperdown 0

Bridgeport 4 Papine 1

Greater Portmore 4 Dunoon 2

Group E

Trench Town 0 Wolmer's Boys 4

Holy Trinity 4 Clan Carthy 0

Group G

Jamaica College 10 KTHS 0

STATHS 0 Norman Manley 0