STETHS dominate COCAA champs

BY PAUL A REID Observer West Writer

Thursday, February 23, 2012

CATHERINE HALL, St James - Double champions St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) dominated the Class champions awards at last week's Milo County of Cornwall Athletics Association's Western Champs that ended at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on Saturday.

The Santa Cruz based STETHS won both sections for the first time, scoring 409.5 points to edge defending champions Munro College (403 points) for the boys' title, while amassing 440 points to beat Herbert Morrison Technical for the girls' title.

Twenty-five records were set over the three days of the championships that saw the girls' eliminations on Tuesday and the boys' on Thursday.

STETHS boys won two of the four class champions and shared one, while winning two of the four in the girls' section.

Renaldo Brown scored 25 points to win Class 4 and the overall champion, after winning the 100m and 200m races and placing second in the high jump.

Okeen Williams scored 22 points to win Class 2, winning the 110m hurdles, taking second place in the 100m and came third in the 200m.

Jevaughney James shared the Class 3 title with Munro College's Rushane Edwards both with 18 points from two wins each. James won the 400m and 800m, while Edwards won the 100m and 200m races.

Munro College's pair of Delano Williams and Emmanuel Onyia shared Class 1 honours with 18 points- Williams winning the 100m and 200m while Onyia won the shot put and discus-both in new meet records.

Two STETHS girls, Audriana Brown and Satanya Wright scored 25 points to emerge as overall champions.

Wright who also topped Class 4, won both the 100m and 200m and was second in the long jump, while Brown won the 400m hurdles Open and Class 1 100m hurdles and took second in the 400m.

Herbert Morrison's Seidatha Palmer and Petersfield High's Asaine Hall scored 24 points to win the Class 1 and Class 2 titles.

Palmer won the 100m and 200m races and was third in the long jump, while Hall won the Class 2 200m and 400m and was third in the 100m.

Moesha Reid of STETHS was the Class 3 champion with 22 points from winning the high jump and 800m and was second in the long jump.