Two Jubilee Trophy powerhouses meet tonight

Holy Cross, Kirby bring undefeated records into their game at KGV

It’s not guaranteed, but the expectation is that something will give tonight at King George V Park in St. John’s.

That’s where the top two teams in the Breen’s Jubilee Trophy women’s soccer league will square off at 7 p.m.

Defending champion Holy Cross/avalon Ford (6-0) and C.B.S. Kirby United (5-0) both carry undefeated records into the contest, and both have been practically perfect in fashioning those marks.

Holy Cross has scored 48 goals in its six wins, allowing just a single goal in the process, a tally surrendered in an 8-1 win over the St. John’s U17s Monday. Kirby hasn’t scored as much — 19 times over five games — but the team and keeper Sydney Walsh haven’t allowed a single goal, their latest victory also coming Monday as they blanked Feildians Greensleeves 3-0.

There will be lots who will question whether having two dominant teams in a five-team circuit makes for the best-possible league.

Between them, the other three Jubilee Trophy teams have scored just nine goals, with seven of them coming in Feildians’ 6-1 win over Mount Pearl. And overall, those three teams have been scored on 75 times

That aside, there’s every reason to believe tonight’s contest between arch-rivals Holy Cross and Kirby should be a dandy. It’s the first of four regularseason meetings between the teams.