LAST?YEAR’S losing finalists Blackman and Gollop and multiple champions St Giles Primary maintained their supremacy when the play-off rounds of the Pine Hill Dairy National Sports Council’s Primary Schools netball championship commenced yesterday at the Netball Stadium.
Blackman and Gollop, who had won the rally this year by pipping St Giles by one goal, continued their trek towards a possible finals by crushing Chalky Mount 10-0 and then ending the day with an 11-4 win over Blackman and Gollop B in Zone One.
Earlier, Blackman and Gollop B had defeated Good Shepherd 7-2, with Good Shepherd rebounding by stopping George Lamming Primary 7-2. George Lamming Primary had opened the play-offs with a 7-2 victory over Chalky Mount.
St Giles were ruthless in both of their Zone Two games where they hammered Cuthbert Moore Primary 18-1 and then wrecked Hillaby Turner Hall 19-0. Cuthbert Moore rebounded by defeating A. DaCosta Edwards Primary 8-1.
However, A. DaCosta Edwards also lost to Luther Thorne 8-0, who also shut out Hillaby 9-0 in their second match. (KB)