Wakefield rule JPS Western Primary Champs
CATHERINE HALL, St James — Wakefield Primary of Trelawny became the first school to retain their title after winning Saturday’s fourth staging of the JPS Western Primary Schools track and field championships at the Montego Bay Sports Complex.
After a close one-point win last year, Wakefield Primary won by 40 points after amassing 208 points, well ahead of Barracks Road, 168, Howard Cooke Primary,165, Enfield High of Westemoreland,153, and former champions Corinaldi Avenue, 133.
Wakefield topped the Boys’ section with 140 points and were third in the Girls with 68.
Corinaldi Avenue’s Richard Thompson, who won the Class 2 long jump and 200m and was third in the 100m, was the overall Boys’ champion with 24 points, while Omar Locke of Enfield Primary was the Class 3 champion with 21.
Wakefield’s Akeem Morris, who won the Class 1 sprint double, was the Class 1 champion.
The organisers had not declared an overall girls’ champion after the results of the cricket ball throw was not located at the time of the tabulation.
Eight records were broken at the meet. Shaneil English of Cove Primary won the Girls Class 1 100m in 12.40 seconds, beating the old mark of 12.81 seconds set in 2010 by Amika Miller.
Wakefield’s Morris ran 12.63 seconds to break the two-year-old record of 12.65 seconds set in 2010 by Leroy Sterling.
His teammate Shenniel Johnson Wakefield won the Girls’ Class 3 200m in 28.77 seconds, under the 28.88 set by Alexia Davis, also in 2010.
Mt Salem Primary won the Girls’ Class 2 4x100m relay in 56.83 seconds, beating the 57.90 set by Wakefield Primary in 2009.
Petersfield Primary won the Boys’ Class 1 4x100m in 53.14 seconds, beating the Howard Cooke Primary 53.59 set in 2010.
Both Girls’ Class 1 and 2 long jump records were broken. Najuma Gayle of Green Pond jumped 4.68 to surpass Akelia Ellis’s 3.80m set last year.
Ellis kept her name in the record books when she broke the Class 1 record with a jump of 4.51m to beat the old 4.32 set last year by Roxanne Hyatt.
Enfield’s Locke threw the cricket ball 38.51m to remove the 38.51 set by Wayne Forrester last year.
