STETHS, Munro top Western Championships

Adrian Frater, News Editor

Western Bureau:

St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) and Munro College sounded a strong warning ahead of the upcoming ISSA Boys and Girls' Championships when they emerged tops in the Hanover Cooperative-Credit Union Western Athletics Championships at the Montego Bay Sports Complex in St James, taking home the girls' and boys' titles, respectively.

STETHS successfully defended the girls' title by amassing 414.5 points; however, they were dethroned in the boys' section by Munro College, who amassed 461.5 to become the new champions.

In what was a clinical display, STETHS girls, who have dominated high-school girls' athletics in the county of Cornwall in recent years, won the title with over 200 points to spare as second-place The Manning's School amassed only 201 points. Herbert Morrison was third with 170.5 points, Petersfield was fourth with 122.5, and Rusea's took fifth with 114.5.

On the boys' side, the Neil Harrison-coached Munro all but embarrassed STETHS as they won by over 100 points and wrested the boys' title from their parish neighbours. For their second-place finish, STETHS bagged 328.5 points, ahead of Cornwall College on 209, Herbert Morrison on 194, and Petersfield on 175, rounding out the top five.

CHAMPION ATHLETES

Herbert Thomas of Munro emerged the overall champion boy with 27 points, while Assain Hall of Petersfield took the champion girl title with 25 points.

The class champions were Class I Boys Munro's Thomas; Odain Lewis of Cornwall College, with 25 points took Class II; Jevaughn James of STETHS ended on 25 points to be adjudged Class III champion; and Tyreek Bucknor of Munro, with 18 points, took Class IV.

On the girls' side, Petersfield's Hall was the Class I champion. Christine Moss of STETHS got 18 points to be declared Class II champion, and Vanesha Pusey, also of Green Island, was the Class III champion. Class IV went to Katherine Barnes of STETHS.

The match-ups between Delano Williams of Munro and Odail Todd of Green Island did not disappoint. Williams had to chase Todd on both occasions to win the races.

Williams won the 100m in a time of 10:32 to Todd's 10:39 (pb). In the 200m, Williams completed the double with a winning time of 20.79 to Todd's 20.90.

However, Todd got some measure of consolation when he anchored his Green Island Class I 4x100m to victory over Williams' Munro team. Todd also anchored his school's 4x400m team to victory.

CAPTION - Munro sprinter and 2012 World Junior 200m champion Delano Williams
(left) powers across the finish line ahead of Green Island's Odail Todd,
the 2011 100m World Youth champion, and Herbert Morrison's Gawain
Williams to win the Boys' Class I 100m final at the Hanover
Cooperative-Credit Union Western Championships last Saturday at the
Montego Bay Sports Complex. - Photo by Paul Clarke