CATHERINE HALL, St James — Kingston College had another good outing at the 37th Milo Western Relays at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on Saturday, winning six relay events while setting two of the five records that were broken on the day.

Meanwhile, Hydel High, Edwin Allen and Holmwood Technical all had two wins each in the high school girls section.

The University of Technology also had a good day in the relays, creating one of the big upsets as the women’s 4x100m team anchored by Shanice Bonner, held off MVP with World and Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on anchor.

After sweeping all four high school boys sprint relays in record times last year, Kingston College won just three, dropping the baton in Class Three and finished sixth, retained both 4x200m titles and made up by winning the 4x400m later in the day in a new record 3 minutes 10.95 seconds to beat Munro College’s 3:13.12 minutes set two years ago.

Defending champions St Elizabeth Technical were second well back in 3:16.33 minutes and Petersfield third.

Their Class Four 4x100m team broke their one-year-old record of 45.09 seconds by 100th of a second with a new mark of 45.08 seconds, while the Class One team ran 40.40 seconds to beat St Elizabeth Technical (40.79 seconds) and Munro College (41.30 seconds).

Kingston College’s Class Two team won the 4x100m in 41.98 seconds.

Holmwood Technical won the girls’ Class One 4x100m in 45.69 seconds ahead of Edwin Allen and Hydel High.

Edwin Allen won Class Two in 45.32 seconds, beating Hydel and Green Island, while Hydel won both Classes Three and Four.

The Hydel Class Three team clocked 46.90 seconds in beating Holmwood Technical and Manchester High, while the Class Four team registered a time of 49.11 seconds to beat Edwin Allen High and Holmwood Technical to the line.

Holmwood Technical won the girls’ 4x200m open in 1 minute 37.48 seconds, beating Edwin Allen and Hydel.

UTech’s men’s sprint medley team broke one of the oldest records on the books after they ran 3 minutes 24.69 seconds to erase the 3:25.35 minutes another UTech foursome ran 11 years ago in 2004.

The other records came in the women’s 400m hurdles and 100m open events.

Sprint Tech’s Rhona Whyte ran a hand timed 58.3 seconds in the 400m hurdles to beat the 2006 mark of 59.31 seconds set by former Edwin Allen runner Sherene Pinnock, while Green Island’s Angielee Jackson’s 11.66 seconds is the new mark in the women’s 100m open, bettering the 11.79 seconds set by Carmiesha Cox of Star Trackers of The Bahamas in 2013.

Despite not setting any new records both Clubs/Institutions’ 4x100m races were full of excitement that kept the nearly full grand stand cheering.

The team of Andrew Fisher, Julian Forte, Kimmarley Brown and Tyquendo Tracy proved superior to the MVP team led by World Championships 100m bronze medallist Nesta Carter, winning in 38.90 seconds to MVP’s 39.35 seconds, with UTech Track Club in third in 39.90 seconds.

Despite coming in as the underdogs, the UTech team of Christania Williams, Elaine Thompson, Shimarya Williams and Shanice Bonner held off the MVP team that included World Championships relay gold medallists Carrie Russell and anchored by Fraser-Pryce, winning in 43.67 seconds, ahead of MVP in 43.79 seconds. Third place went to GC Foster College in 45.45 seconds.

In some individual events, STETHS’ IAAF World Youth Championships 400m hurdles champion Marvin Williams won the high school boys’ Class One 110m hurdles in 13.7 seconds (hand timed); Kingston College’s Phillip Beckford won the Class Two 110m hurdles in 14.1 seconds; Kason Johnson of Petersfield won the Class Three 100m hurdles in 14.1 seconds.

STETHS’ Kimesha Chambers won the Class One girls’ 100m hurdles in 14.5 seconds; Class Two went to Manchester High’s Sydney Marshall also in 14.5 seconds.

Ashani Wright of UTech won the men’s high jump open with 2.10m.

Holmwood Technical’s Chantae Deer leads her team to victory in the Class One high school girls 4x100m relays at the 37th Milo Western Relays at the Montego Bay Sports Complex on Saturday.

(PHOTO: PAUL REID)