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Penn Relays<br />
2017 Review<br />
By: Hubert Lawrence<br />
Photo:Joseph Cornwall<br />
Jamaican fans had lots to cheer about at the 122nd staging of the world renowned Penn Relays.<br />
Kingston College, Jamaica College and St Jago High School delivered big relay wins on the boys side.<br />
The Edwin Allen Comprehensive High School girls did a neat 4x100m/4x400m double.<br />
For all the fast action on the track, the biggest Jamaican star was Shanice Love of Excelsior. She<br />
continued a dream season with a national junior record of 54.72 metres to win the discus. Not only did<br />
she add to a mark of 54.66 she established two weeks earlier, Love also broke the Penn Relays meet<br />
record held by former Holmwood thrower Gleneve Grange. That event was one of six individuals wins<br />
by Jamaican student-athletes visiting Franklin Field – the venue of the world renowned relay carnival.<br />
One of those wins, the success for Rayan Holmes of Edwin Allen in the 400 metre hurdles, was sweet<br />
redemption. Holmes fell ill at Boys and Girls Championships at the start of the final and was taken<br />
from the track. At Penn, he won in 52.47 seconds.<br />
4x100m<br />
BOYS<br />
With Akeem Bloomfield speeding on the<br />
second leg, Kingston College equalled the<br />
record of 39.63 seconds set by Calabar in much<br />
warmer weather the previous year. Shivnarine<br />
Smalling, Bloomfield and Jevaughn<br />
Matherson gave Tyreke Bryan a big lead and<br />
he didn’t yield. Calabar finished second in a<br />
fine time of 39.89 seconds. KC, Calabar, JC,<br />
Wolmer’s Boys and St Jago are the only school<br />
to go below 40 in Penn Relays history.<br />
GIRLS:<br />
Patrice Moody and Shellece Clark zoomed<br />
the middle legs to gain victory for Edwin Allen<br />
in 45.73 seconds.<br />
4x400m<br />
BOYS<br />
With Bloomfield cautiously skipping this one with injury worries,<br />
Jamaica College created a stunning upset in 3 minutes 12.34<br />
seconds. Maleik Smith and Michael Campbell kept the Old<br />
Hope ‘Roaders’ close before Devaughn Baker broke the race<br />
open with a 47.3 sprint on the third leg. Calabar’s World Youth<br />
Champion Christopher Taylor could not catch JC anchorman<br />
Phillip Lemonios. KC finished 8th.<br />
GIRLS<br />
Janiel Moore, Davia Smith and 400 metre hurdles runner-up<br />
Shannon Kalawan of Edwin Allen put Moody in the hunt for first<br />
place in a battle with Holmwood’s Ashley Williams. The battle<br />
ended with a bump and a fall for the unlucky Williams. Moody<br />
was left to hold off the fast closing Junelle Bromfield of STETHS<br />
whose split was a noteworthy 52.7 seconds. The winning time for<br />
Edwin Allen was 3 minutes 40.88 seconds.<br />
FEATURES<br />
4x800m<br />
BOYS<br />
St Jago reversed its Gibson-McCook<br />
Relay loss to STETHS with a school<br />
record 7 minutes 33.71 seconds.<br />
That’s the 4th fastest time in Penn<br />
Relays history. Eric McKenzie, Joel<br />
John-Pierre, Keenan Lawrence,<br />
and Leon Clarke did the business<br />
for St Jago.<br />
GIRLS<br />
Holmwood and Edwin Allen were<br />
the only Jamaican schools in this<br />
final and they finished third and<br />
fifth respectively.<br />
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS<br />
GIRLS<br />
Discus – Shanice Love, Excelsior: NJR 54.72<br />
Long Jump – Tissana Hickling, St Jago: 5.86 metres<br />
BOYS<br />
High Jump – Clayton Brown, JC: 2.12 metres<br />
Triple Jump – O’Brien Wasome, JC: 16.91 metres<br />
Discus Throw – Kino Dunkley, Munro: 57.89 metres<br />
400 metre hurdles – Rayan Holmes, Edwin Allen: 52.47 seconds<br />
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