Western Bureau

The two teams that will contest the final of the 2008 Ben Francis Knockout Football Competition will be decided today at 3:00 p.m. when St James High square-off with Lacovia High at Jarrett Park, in Montego Bay; and Dinthill Technical battle Old Harbour High at Spanish Town Prison Oval, in St Catherine.

Based on the performance of the teams in their quarter-final fixtures, which saw St James High brushing aside Godfrey Stewart 2-0, Lacovia tagging Rusea's 1-0, Dinthill blowing away Paul Bogle 5-1 and Old Harbour clipping Lennon 2-1, confidence should be high going in today's games.

At Jarrett Park, a classic confrontation is anticipated between the unbeaten St. James High and a Lacovia. Both teams were near flawless in the daCosta Cup preliminary round, where St James High easily won Zone A and Lacovia High easily topped Zone E.

Overconfident

Looking ahead to today's game, Pastor Hugh Solomon, whose team defeated Marcus Garvey 2-1 in their first round game before knocking out Godfrey Stewart said his team, which feature quality players in the likes of top strikers Allan Ottey and Nicholi Barrett, is ready and rearing to go.

"While we are not overconfident, we are extremely confident going into this game and we expect to be still unbeaten at the end of this game," said Pastor Solomon.

For Lacovia's coach Errol White, who is enjoying his best season with the St Elizabeth team since he started coaching them in 1995, is also looking forward to the game with much relish.

"We are not worried about playing in Montego Bay as the players are mentally prepared to play anywhere," said coach White.

In the game at the St. Catherine Prison Oval, another classic battle looms between Dinthill, who impressed in winning Zone J of the daCosta Cup preliminaries and the Linval Dixon-coached Old Harbour, who advertised themselves as one of the teams to beat by topping Zone I ahead of traditional big guns Glenmuir and Garvey Maceo.