William Knibb Memorial’s Jabari Matheson (left) celebrates after he broke the meet file within the Boys Class 1 400m at Saturday’s COCAA Western Championships at GC Foster School. Matheson clocked 46.60 seconds to interrupt the outdated file 47.26 seconds set in 2011 by Waynee Hyman.Paul Reid
St Elizabeth Technical Excessive Faculty (STETHS) retained each titles on Saturday’s remaining day of the County of Cornwall Athletics Affiliation Western Championships at GC Foster School in contrasting trend.
Whereas the Dwayne Jarrett-led ladies’ workforce led from Wednesday’s first day, happening to attain an enormous 100-plus factors win, the boys’ workforce, below the steerage of Neil Harrison, engineered a pulsating late drive to beat William Knibb Memorial by 28 factors in a 333.5 to 305.5 victory.
Harrison, who led Munro School to a number of Boys’ titles earlier than shifting to Kingston School after which Jamaica School the place he had huge successes, introduced, “I’m again within the west,” after STETHS took over the lead late on Saturday after trailing by half a degree going into the relays and a handful of occasions left.
STETHS got here into the day in third place within the boys’ competitors, on 89 factors, trailing Munro School — 131.5 factors and pre-championships favourites William Knibb — 89.5.
They took full benefit of the large factors on supply within the relays, ending forward of William Knibb Memorial (305.5) in all six relays to complete with 333.5 factors. First day leaders Munro School have been third with 270.5, Cornwall School fourth with 220 and Herbert Morrison Technical fifth with 205.
After main by simply 22 factors after the primary day, the STETHS females continued to increase their lead all day, lastly ending with 358 factors. Mt Alvernia Excessive retained their second place from final yr with 254 factors and William Knibb Memorial (186) have been third, changing Petersfield Excessive (125), who have been fourth and Maggotty Excessive have been fifth with 90 factors, one place higher than final yr.
Harrison stated they weren’t stunned that they have been in a position to overtake William Knibb on the finish and it was as a consequence of sound planning in all sides of the competitors.
“We had a gathering with the boys and we went by means of all the outcomes and we strategised,” he stated. “We knew William Knibb have been doing effectively all season. We all know the place our shortcomings have been, however I just about strategised by way of all of the relays, relay wins are 12 factors and we ensured we have been in good nick the place the relays have been involved and the workforce delivered and gave us the cushion we wanted, together with some discipline occasions.”
“From inception, I realised that the workforce is a really younger one and in case you observed we didn’t have any athletes dominating, we needed to double up for probably the most half, which is sort of demanding for this sort of a championship. However we needed to present some grit, some tenacity. We’re the defending champions, and we determined that we aren’t going to go down with out a battle,” he added.
There have been various excellent performances on the championships, together with a World Beneath-20 main 50.82 seconds within the Class One boys’ 400m hurdles from Herbert Morrison Technical’s Trevoy Smith.
William Knibb Memorial’s World Beneath-20 consultant Jabari Matheson ran a private greatest 46.60 seconds to interrupt the Boys’ Class One 400m file of 47.26 seconds set in 2011 by Waynee Hyman of Munro School.
Sawayne Kerr of STETHS was second in 47.41 seconds and final yr’s winner Mario Birch of Cornwall School was third in 47.47 seconds, each private greatest performances.
Maggotty Excessive’s Yoshane Bowen gained the Boys’ Class One 800m in a elegant 1:51.88 seconds, enhancing on the 1:53.78 seconds he ran per week earlier on the Camperdown Traditional.
Maggotty Excessive’s Zachary Wallace stunned a powerful discipline to win the Boys’ Class One 100m, operating 10.61 seconds into a powerful head wind of -3.8 metres per second, beating final yr’s Class Two champion and pre-race favorite Tavaine Stewart of Herbert Morrison, who ran 10.79 seconds and Mickoy Curtis of Munro School 10.89 seconds.
Final yr’s winner Tramaine Todd of STETHS completed fifth and Muschett Excessive’s Johan-Ramaldo Smythe, who was a medal favorite, was sixth.
Munro School’s Demar Robinson, who was disqualified final yr, gained the three,000m run for Courses 3 and 4 boys’ in 10 minutes 27.25 seconds, sooner than the ten:52.50 seconds set final yr by STETHS’ Dejaun Grey.
Ultimate boys’ factors:
STETHS-333.5, William Knibb Memorial-305.5, Munro School- 270.5, Cornwall School- 220, Herbert Morrison Technical-205, Petersfield Excessive-102, Maggotty Excessive-76, Lacovia Excessive- 56, BB Coke Excessive-46, Sydney Pagon Excessive-41, Inexperienced Island Excessive-33, Frome Technical-31, Rusea’s Excessive-30, Mannings Faculty-27, Rhodes Corridor Excessive-22.5, Muschett Excessive-22, Maldon Excessive- 11, Black River Excessive-10, Irwin Excessive- 6, Godfrey Stewart Excessive- 4, Anchovy Excessive-3, Albert City Hugh-3, Belmont Academy-3, Cedric Titus-1
Ultimate ladies’ factors:
STETHS- 358, Mt Alvernia Excessive- 254, William Knibb Memorial- 186, Petersfield Excessive-125, Maggotty Excessive-90, Lacovia Excessive-79, Black River Excessive-72, Muschett Excessive-64, Mannings Faculty-64, Sydney Pagon-56, Inexperienced Island-44, Rhodes Corridor Excessive-35, BB Coke Excessive-31, Rusea’s Excessive-28, Godfrey Stewart-25, Albert City Excessive-21, Frome Technical-19, Maldon Excessive-19, Inexperienced Pond Excessive-8, St James Excessive-5, Anchovy Excessive-5, Cedric Titus-3
