Kwesi Mugisa, Staff Reporter

SCORES

Charlie Smith 3
Gillian Pusey 9th, Gary Lewis 23rd, Kenton Smith 29th

Jonathan Grant 0

High-riding Charlie Smith glided their way to a fourth consecutive win of the ISSA/Pepsi/JN Manning Cup season, when they blanked Jonathan Grant 3-0 at the Anthony Spaulding complex yesterday.

The slippery, sloppy conditions did little to slow down the Charlie Smith team which produced all three goals in a furious spell of football in the first half. Gillian Pusey put the 1995 champions ahead in the ninth minute, and Gary Lewis emphatically slammed in a second, fourteen minutes later. Lewis was the recipient of a well weighted back-post cross from Kevin Martin and Jonathan Grant custodian Marlon Henry could only watch his scissors kick bounce into the back of the net. Kenton Smith, then tapped in from four yards out in the 29th minute.

"We did very well considering the soggy conditions. We scored all our goals in the first half, but we looked a bit lacklustre in the second half." said Charlie Smith coach Jerome Waite.

"We never recovered from the early goals, they really put us on the back foot." was the assessment of Jonathan Grant coach Alexander Parks, who saw his team give a much better showing in the second half. Charlie Smith remain at the top of Group C with 12 points, while Jonathan Grant fall to third place on six points behind Innswood who now move to nine points having got by Penwood 5-0 in Group B's other fixture.

Yesterday's Results

Group A

Waterford 7 St. Mary 0

Group B

Penwood 5 Innswood 0 Charlie Smith 3 Jonathan Grant 0

Group E

Ja College1 Calabar 0

Today's games

Group B

St Jago vs Norman Manley Mona vs Donald Quarrie

Group D

Camperdown vs Tivoli Kingston High vs Eltham Meadowbrook vs Campion

Group F

Bridgeport vs Pembroke Hall K C vs Wolmer's