St Richard’s Primary captured the Eastern Regional Zone One of the 39th staging of the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) Primary Schools Track and Field Championships with a combined score of 167 points at National Stadium East on Saturday.

The three-day meet which started last Thursday had 67 primary schools, showcasing 2,032 athletes from the parishes of Kingston, St Andrew, Portland, St Mary and St Thomas.

Harbour View Primary, which held the lead for most of day three, finished second with 156 points, followed by Lyssons from St Thomas with 150, Lawrence Tavern with 135.5, Rousseau Primary with 113, Rock Hall with 92, Buff Bay from Portland with 72, Windward Road with 60, St Jude’s with 53, and St Francis and Half Way Tree with 51 each, to round out the top 10 schools.

Harbour View was the top girls’ school finishing with 94.50 points, followed by Rock Hall on 92, Lyssons with 89, St Richard’s on 80 and Rousseau with 73 points.

Lawrence Tavern Primary emerged winners of the boys’ section with 89 points, followed by St Richard’s on 87, Harbour View with 61.5, Lyssons on 61, and Buff Bay with 52 points.

Apart from winning the combined team championships, St Richard’s will receive $250,000 in prize money, with Harbour View walking away with $200,000 for second spot, while Lyssons will collect $150,000 for finishing in third place. The schools that finished from fourth to 10th place will each be awarded $75,000.

Meanwhile, due to several stoppages on the first two days, some of the events had to be switched to time finals.

The powerful, all-round performances from St Richard’s carried them through to victory, but not without competition from the others.

The Class One boys’ 100 metres final was won by Lincon Richmond from Windward Road in 13.08 seconds, ahead of Romane Gordon from Maxfield Park (13.17), and Ta-jay Roberts from St Francis (13.20).

The Class Two boys’ 100m final was won by Kyle Bodden from St Richard’s in a time of 13.79 seconds ahead of Dejon Monteque from St Aloysius in 13.89 and Cameron Hawthorne from Lawrence Tavern in 13.91.

Kaysian Sewell from St Francis captured the Class Two girls’ 100m final in 13.97 seconds from Grace-Ann Hermitt of St Richard’s in 14.00 and Amarese Taylor from Rock Hall in 14.37.

Brucarri Lettman from Mona Heights won the Class Three boys’ 100m final in 14.26 seconds, Ziele Wallace from St Aloysius took second in 14.30, and Jhevonte Coburn from Lawrence Tavern was third in 14.32 seconds.

Ramoya Thompson from Old Pera won the Class Three girls’ 100m in 14.60 seconds, ahead of Melliesha Campbell from St Martin de Pores in 14.90 and Shannaty Burke from Rock Hall in 15.09 seconds.

Brianna Carr from Rousseau captured the Class One girls’ 400m final in 1:07.55 minutes ahead of Andrene Smith from Hope Valley Experimental in 1:08.21, and Kiana Edwards from Rock Hall 1:09.19.

Kelliser Johnson from Constant Spring won the Class Two girls’ 300m final in 47.49 seconds from Yanique Bond from St Francis (47.85) and De-eziah Martin from Duhaney Park in 47.98.

Lawrence Tavern won the Class One boys’ 4x100m relay time final in 52.14 seconds ahead of Half Way Tree (52.63) and Buff Bay (52.98).

St Richard’s captured the Class One girls’ 4x100m relay time final in 52.53 seconds, ahead of Rousseau (53.20) and Harbour View (53.68).

Winning the Class Two boys’ 4x100m relay final was St Richard’s in a time of 53.44 seconds, with Harbour View in 53.61 and Rousseau in 54.00.

The Class Three boys’ 4x100m relay time final was won by St Richard’s in 55.60 from Harbour View (55.79) and Rousseau in 56.51.

St Richard’s won the Class Four boys’ 4x100m relay time final in 1:00.87, ahead of Lawrence Tavern (1:01.72) and Excelsior (1:01.88). The Class Four girls’ 4x100m relay was captured by New Providence in 1:01.47, ahead of St Aloysius in 1:03.25 and Rock Hall in 1:03.57.

The 800 metres Sprint Medley for girls, which was a time final, was won by Duhaney Park in 2:06.17 minutes, ahead of Pembroke Hall (2:09.66) and Clan Carthy (2:10.00).

A minute’s silence was observed as a mark of respect to Chantae Skyers from Red Hills Primary School who died recently. The youngster, who went missing and whose body was later found, was slated to run in the Class Four 60 metres.

Minister of Sports Olivia Grange led the tribute — along with Skyers’ mother Christal Service, the school’s principal, and coach Phillip Anderson — by walking in lane two with her picture placed at the finishing line.

Meanwhile, Central Regional Zone Two will get under way today at G C Foster College of Physical Education and Sport in Spanish Town, starting at 10:00 am.

This is the second of three championships being staged by INSPORTS.

Schools from St Catherine, Clarendon and St Ann will compete in 40 events in the boys’ and girls’ sections.

The events to be contested today are the high jump open for boys and girls ,preliminary rounds, cricket ball throw for boys and girls open, preliminary rounds; heats of the 400 metres open for Class One boys and girls, Class Two boys’ and girls’ 300m heats, Class Four boys’ and girls’ 60m heats.

Other events scheduled are 100m preliminary rounds for Class One, Two and Three boys and girls; 800m preliminary rounds; 4×100 metres relays preliminary rounds; for Class One, Two, Three and Four; and the 800m sprint medley open preliminary rounds for both genders.