CATHERINE HALL, St James — St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) warmed up for this weekend’s Gibson/McCook Memorial Relays as well as sounded a warning for the ISSA Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships next month with a commanding display last Saturday at the Montego Bay Sports Complex to win both sections of the Digicel/Hanover Co-Operative Credit Union County of Cornwall Athletics Association’s Western Championships.

It was the second time in three seasons that the Santa Cruz-based school was copping the double as the boys dethroned Munro College and the girls won their 10th consecutive title.

The STETHS boys, who led from last Tuesday’s eliminations held at Herbert Morrison, tallied 430 points, 51 more than last year, to beat Munro College’s 329, while Petersfield were third with 239 points, just three more than last year’s 236. Herbert Morrison were fourth with 212, the most points they have scored in years, with Cornwall College dropping one place to fifth with 168.5.

Interestingly, the STETHS girls scored 367 points, one less than last year’s total, but had a comfortable margin over second-placed Rusea’s High on 229, an improvement of 78.5 points despite losing two big scorers from last year’s team. Herbert Morrison with 224 and Petersfield on 151.5 points, retained third and fourth, respectively, but Mt Alvernia with a powerful Class Four team jumped into fifth place with 111 after scoring just 26 last year for seventh place.

Petersfield High boys ended the championships on a high with a stunning upset over STETHS in the 4x400m relay — the team of Raheem Levene, Jordan Scott, Travis Alder and Devaughn Ellington clocked 3 minutes 15.55 seconds as a strong STETHS team of Marvin Williams, Okeen Williams, Paul Tate and Robin Black finished second in 3 minutes 15.99 seconds, with Munro College third in 3 minutes 20.43 seconds.

Scott got the baton some metres behind Okeen Williams on the second leg but took him on and passed him by the 120-metre mark and held on to hand over the baton in first place as his team held on for the victory.

Thirteen records were broken last Saturday, including STETHS’s Junelle Bromfield, who added the girls’ Class Two 400m to her 800m earlier in the day, running 53.66 seconds to break the 55.39 seconds set by Petersfield’s Asaine Hall in 2012. She won an amazing four gold medals.

She also won the 1,500m and the 400m hurdles open events.

Petersfield High’s Class Four runner Antonio Watson ran a jaw-dropping 54.14 seconds to erase the 55.0 seconds set by Ronell Deer of STETHS in 2006, after he won the 200m in 24.02 seconds hours earlier.

Munro College’s Rushane Fullerton added the 3,000m open record to the 1,500m record he ran at the eliminations. Last Saturday he clocked 10 minutes 10.81 seconds to beat the 10 minutes 18.43 seconds set in 2005 by Zaire Maitland of Lewisville High.

In the 1,500m he had run 4 minutes 33.85 seconds to break the 4 minutes 37.90 seconds he set last year.

STETHS’s Marvin Williams also had two records as he added the Class One 110m hurdles to the 400m hurdles record he at the championships. The IAAF World Youth Championships 400m hurdlers champion ran 14.23 seconds for the 110m gold medal.

There were also three relay records, the powerful Mt Alvernia Class Four team ran 49.95 seconds to set the new 4x100m record replacing the 52.0 seconds set by a STETHS team in 2003.

Green Island High are the new record holders of the girls’ Class Two 4x100m record after their 46.96 seconds beat the 47.65 seconds they set last year.

Herbert Morrison’s Class Three boys’ team also ran 45.36 seconds to beat the 45.47 seconds they set in 2005.

Cornwall College’s Odaine Lewis added the Class One boys’ long jump to the triple jump he won earlier in the day, getting out to 6.88m on his final attempt to beat Frome Technical’s Delton Foote with 6.71m.

STETHS’s Karisiah Green won the girls’ triple jump open with 11.09m, just ahead of Petersfield’s Collistia Baker’s 11.03m.

Final boys’ points standing: STETHS on 430, Munro, 329, Petersfield, 239, Herbert Morrison, 212, Cornwall College, 168.5, Green Island, 99.5, William Knibb, 48, Rhodes Hall, 43, Rusea’s, 40, Maggotty, 39, Frome, 35, Muschett, 31, Irwin, 30, Green Pond, 22, Lacovia, 17, Balaclava, 12, Hopewell, 10, BB Coke, 7, Spot Valley, 7, Holland, 4, Grange Hill, 3, Albert Town, 3, Maldon, 2, St James, 2.

Final girls’ points standing: STETHS on 367, Rusea’s, 295, Herbert Morrison, 224, Petersfield, 151.5, Mt Alvernia, 111, Frome, 81, Green Island, 67, Green Pond, 63, Hampton, 56.5, Lacovia, 50, BB Coke, 38, William Knibb, 27, Maggotty, 21, Albert Town, 17, Merlene Ottey, 16, Spot Valley, 15, Hopewell, 13, Balaclava, 12, Irwin, 12, Grange Hill, 10, Muschett, 9, Westwood, 9, Rhodes Hall, 6.