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Nicolee
Foster
Tyrese Reid
Kevin Nedrick
Shian Salmon
After a tempestuous 4x400m win over STETHS,
KC ended the day with a spritely run of 3 minutes
14.74 with Matherson dashing a leg in 47
seconds flat.
Hydel’s Trishauna Hemmings put in a good day
of work there as well. She was second to tall Suzan
Francis of Holmwood in the long jump after
zipping to a record time of 13.66 seconds in the
Class 1 100 metre hurdles.
FEBRUARY 18
Western Champs, STATHS/Isaac Henry and
Ben Francis Invitational
Reid continued to put Spot Valley on the map
as a masterful performance – timed at 1 minute
51.11 seconds – earned him the gold medal in
the Western Championships Class 1 800 metres.
That made the headlines but so did Kevin
Nedrick of Petersfield, Sachin Dennis of STETHS,
Kalani Cook of Rusea’s, Soyinne Grenyion of
Mount Alvernia and Rovaine Williams of Rhodes
Hall.
Nedrick did a shot/disc/javelin triple while Dennis,
Cook and Grenyion turned in notable sprint
doubles in Class 2 – 10.72 and 21.52 for Dennis
and in Class 3 for both Cook and Grenyion.
Williams shocked the Montego Bay Sports
Complex with a 53.48 win over the STETHS of
Dashonelle Dyer and Javauney James.
At the STATHS, Calabar decathlete LaFranz
Campbell downed a fine field in the Class 1
110m hurdles with his run of 14.07 seconds.
At Vere Technical, Jeima Davis of Edwin Allen
marked herself as a slight favourite for the
Champs steeplechase with a win over stubborn
Kay-Ceann Plummer of the hosts in 7 minutes
20.39 seconds.
FEBRUARY 25
Gibson-McCook Relays
KC and Edwin Allen dominated the 41st staging
of this venerable relay carnival. KC won all the
sprint relays and closed the show with a close win
Akeen Colley
over St Jago in the 4x400m. The highlight of
the Edwin Allen performance was a sizzling
win in the Class 3 4x100m. With Kevona Davis
sweeping the second leg, Edwin Allen zipped
home on 44.91 seconds. That and a 4x800m
record – 8 minutes 47.71 seconds – made up
for a baton fumble in the Class 4 4x100m final.
The boys’ 4x800m was excellent too as St Jago
set a Jamaican high school record of 7 minutes
32.76 seconds.
FEBRUARY
27 and 28 - Eastern Champs
In a meet dominated by St Mary High, Shantel
Reid of Happy Grove threw her way onto the
spotlight with a record throw of 36.91 metres
in the javelin.
MARCH 2
Corporate Area Development Meet
Taylor finally came out to play and smiled all
the way through his Class 1 200 metre race,
clocking an impressive time of 20.98 seconds.
Heavy headwinds spoiled the sprints and an
apparent timing glitch produced super-fast
times in the Class 3 boys 400m. The official
time leader was 48.37 seconds, which is superior
to Taylor’s meet record by 0.18.
MARCH 4 AND 5
Carifta Trials
Taylor tested his fitness in the 400 metres just
days after his season opening 200m run. He
passed the test with flying colours speeding
around the under 20 400m final in 45.41 seconds.
His co-Dream Teamer Stephens marked
the register properly with a stylish under 18
200m win in 20.93 seconds.
Nedrick was monumental in the under 20
shot, missing the national junior record by
just 4 centimetres with his best throw of 20.08
metres.
The best girl was Kevona Davis who abandoned
the drive phase start but still
stormed to victory in the under 18 100
in 11.43 seconds. That’s faster than
the Champs record for Class 3 girls.
Though Patrice Moody was eliminated
from the under 20 final, Edwin
Allen also won that title as Kashieka
Cameron zoomed home in 11.49
seconds.
Anderson showed again that she is
the Class 2 100 metre hurdles favourite
with a smooth under 18 title run in
13.21 seconds. Reigning Class 2 champion
Dazsay Freeman of Manchester
High was second in 13.44 seconds.
MARCH 11
GCFoster Classic
Taylor and Davis were at it again in
this finale to the Digicel Grand Prix.
Both dazzled over 200 metres with fast
personal best times of 20.59 and 23.32
seconds respectively.
Other notable marks came from
Lushane Wilson of St Jago, who
cleared 2.18 metres in the high jump,
Stacy-Ann Williams of STETHS who
lowered her 400 metre best to 52.62
seconds and Sashieka Steele of
Holmwood. Steele, last year’s Class 4
sprint dominator, showed she might
challenge Davis in the Class 3 100m
at Champs with a great run timed in
11.50 seconds.
There was a shock in the boys Class
1 800m as the undefeated streak by
Tyrese Reid came to an end. Powerful
Rusea’s sixth former Akeen Colley ran
down the Spot Valley star to win in a
relatively slow 1 minute 52.80 seconds.
Reid had run 1.51.11 in the under 18
Carifta Trials while in the under 20 category,
Colley had triumphed in
1.52.11.
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