HYDEL produced a brilliant final-day performance to win this year’s JISA/Little Ceasars Preparatory Schools Championships at the National Stadium on Saturday.

Hydel, who trailed Mona by 14 and a half points entering the final day of the three-day championships, tallied 179 points to take home the title.

In fact Hydel, who entered the final two events trailing Mona by one and a half points, finished second in the girls’ 4x200m behind winners Sts Peter and Paul, while Mona did not field a team in the final. Hydel and Mona were both absent from the final of the boys’ 4x200m, which was the last event of the championships. That event was also won by Sts Peter and Paul, ahead of Wolmer’s and Vaz.

Mona finished second in the championships with 170.5 points, followed by Vaz (155), Sts Peter and Paul (149), Lannaman’s (107), Our Lady of the Lady Angels (105), St Andrew (91), Mount Saint Joseph (82), dethroned champions Emmanuel Christian Academy (74), Wolmer’s (63.5) and Knox Junior (60).

The victory was Hydel’s 19th titles in 22 years, but according to Head Coach Corey Bennett he did not expect his team to win this year’s title due to their lack of preseason preparation.

“I am really surprised that we won the title because we haven’t been to any of the development meets all season,” said Bennett. “We are really in just kind of a rebuilding mode but my Coach Richard Johnson did a whole lot of work to guide this programme to where it is at,” said Bennett, who also guided Hydel to the Girls’ Champs title in March.

“The Hydel Group of Schools has been having an excellent year with our win at the Girls’ Championships and so this is wonderful to top it off,” he said.

Hydel’s Rajeev Allison won the boys’ Class One 400m in 55.21, ahead of Sts Peter and Paul’s Dejuan Ennis (55.96) and Jeadon Powell from Mount St Joseph (1:00.08).

Allison won his second gold medal of the championships when he captured the boys’ Class One 200m in 25.13, ahead of Joel McKenzie from Wolmer’s (25.34) and Jhaidon Dawkins from Vaz (25.64).

London Bell from Hydel gave her team back-to-back victories when she won the Class One 300m in 44.46, in front of Ceejena Rowe-Campbell of Mount St Joseph (45.25) and Zyann Moore of Vaz (45.36).

Lannaman’s Mick-Kayla Gardener won the Class One sprint double title when she captured the 200m in 27.58. Serayah Fahmi of Sts Peter and Paul was second in 28.58 while third went to Rowe-Campbell in 28.60.

Vaz’s Nathan Merchant won the Class One boys’ 60m hurldes event in 10.00 seconds, ahead of Emmanuel’s Nathan Royal (10.20) and Dominic Lazarus of Sts Peter and Paul (10.29). Hydel’s Kalace Williams captured the girls’ equivalent in 10.71, in front of Vaz’s Leigh-Ann Wade (10.87) and Samara Wellington of Emmanuel (11.10).