Daraine Luton, Freelance Writer 
Junior Dowie, Staff Photograplher - Camperdown's goalscorer, Renardo Lee (right) stumbles as he comes under pressure from a Bridgeport defender during yesterday's Walker Cup quarter-final clash at Ferdie Neita Park.
THE WALKER Cup will not remain in St. Catherine this year.
In yesterday's quarter-final tie at Ferdie Neita Park, Portmore, the St. Catherine teams, Bridgeport and Spanish Town, were sent packing by Camperdown and Wolmer's respectively, setting up a Kingston and St. Andrew semi-final match up on November 6.
In the day's opener, Wolmer's embarrassed Spanish Town 4-1; scoring two goals in each half. Jermaine Gardner opened Wolmer's account in the 13th minute and Ricardo Hyman doubled the advantage on 22 minutes. Gardner returned to get his second in the 55th minute, plunging Spanish Town further into a hole which opened wider when they were reduced to 10-men 65 minutes into the game.
Paul Campbell put the issue beyond doubt in the 83rd minute even though Marvin Francis pulled one back for Spanish Town two minutes later.
NO FREE RIDE
Meanwhile, it was by no means a roller-coaster ride for Camperdown who brought the curtain down on the day with a 1-0 win over 2001 double (Manning and Walker Cup) champions Bridgeport. Renardo Lee was the man on target for the east Kingston side.
Yesterday's result means that Wolmer's will play Camperdown in one semi-final while defending Manning Cup champions Excelsior play Mona in the other. Last year's champions St. Jago failed to make it past the first round of the Manning Cup, thus denying them the opportunity of defending the Walker Cup.
In the feature game, Camperdown were lucky to escape a charged-up Bridgeport bunch due mainly to the failure of the St. Catherine side's strikers to convert the opportunities created.
In fact, from the word go they signalled their intent to 'bag up Camperdown's net' the poor finishing along with good goalkeeping on the part of Andrew Land prevented those thoughts from coming to fruition.
Ten minutes had hardly gone in the game when Radeen Bennett was returned a pass by Vernal Smart which he rifled into Land's arms. He would regret not burying the effort as Lee made Bridgeport pay, netting from close range after Bridgeport's goalie, Kemar Davis, failed to react fast enough to a mis-hit from Orlando Ferguson.
However, Bridgeport got a grand opportunity to draw level two minutes from the halftime whistle when Andrew Bryden dispossessed Vivian Henry at the top of the area to set up a one-on-one situation with the goalie. But his shot lacked power and direction resulting in the goalie getting down to effect the save with his foot.
PLAYING WITH A PURPOSE
Knowing that it was either win or go home, Bridgeport began the second half even more
purposefully, but although they got their chances, the strikers were not sharp enough.
And when Theophelus Samuels blasted agonisingly wide from close range even the diehard Bridgeport fans knew it was over, so much so that many made their exit from the ground immediately.
"I am feeling very lucky but you need luck to win," said Barrington 'Cobra' Gaynor, Camperdown's coach.
"They got their chances against us... I think we played very bad, this must be the worst game we have played this season," Gaynor added.
Meanwhile, Gaynor's opposite number, Anthony Patrick of Bridgeport, was still in shock when The Sunday Gleaner spoke to him.
"It has been our problem this season, we are just not scoring the goals. You can't win if you don't score goals," Patrick said.
"We were looking at the Walker Cup... We wanted it and the Manning Cup but we just have to re-direct our focus to the Manning Cup," he said.
