St. Joseph’s High reclaim athletics title
By Marlon Munroe
St. Joseph’s High School regained supremacy over defending champions Tutorial High School yesterday at the Camp Ayanganna ground in the East Georgetown Inter-Schools track events meet.
SJHS, going into yesterday’s meet with a reasonable lead after the field events the previous day, ended on 512 points with THS making up ground but they could not catch up and ended with 488.4 points.
Former powerhouse North Georgetown Secondary School (NGSS) rounded out the podium positions on 354 while minnows Queenstown Community High School (QCHS), with a spirited effort, ended in creditable fourth positon on 348 points.
Meanwhile the most talented athletes from District 12 gave some amazing performances at yesterday’s proceedings and their exploits will no doubt build the hype prior to the Guyana Teachers’ Union/Ministry of Education National Track & Field Championships scheduled for Albion, Berbice next month.
CARIFTA gold medalist Jevina Straker (U-16) of THS continued her dominance in the 1500m and 3000m events and former Police Sports Club athlete Ebony Nelson of NGSS captured the sprint treble (100m, 200m, 400m) and anchored her team to victory in the 1600m (4×400) relay.
Siddiqua Shabazz copped the girls under-14 middle distance events (800m, 1500m) and the one lap event (400) and under-16 SJHS sprinter Michael Williams won the 200m and 400m races.
Another athlete that many eyes will be on is THS’s Redford Johnson who churned out a solid 400m performance in the under-20 category. THS’s Delon De Abreau continued with his dominance of the sprint double in the under-20 category winning by handsome margins.
From the scratched start, he ran a tactically sound race to record an unofficial time of 23.1s.
Another standout athlete was QCHS Amonicke Cameron who won the 400m and 800m races in convincing fashion. He displayed great finishing speed after a methodical buildup in both events.
In other results:
Under-20 male 5000- Oniel Joseph, Winston Forrester, Jomain King; U-14 boys 100m: Yohance Hendricks, Akeem Benn, Cleveland King; U-14 girls 100m Movana Maison, Crystal Monarchy, Nayasha Washington; U-16 100m boys: Chapelle Corbin, Sharwayne Mc Pherson, Taitum Taitum; U-20 girls 100m Ebony Nelson, Thawana Culley, Tomeica Gibbons; U-20 Open 100m: Delon De Abreau, Keon James, Devon Cummings; U-20 400m girls: Ebony Nelson, Kevin Benn, James Rampersaud; Male U-20 400: Redford Johnson, Tadeem Boyce, Dominique Angoy.
