Led by SENIOR VICTRIX LUDORUM Tanice Watson, Yellow completed a hat-trick of titles when the curtain came down on the Springer Memorial inter-house track and field championships yesterday.
Watson topped all individual performers with 64 points, while the Yellow House athletes and teachers cheered loudest on the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic playing field with an unassailable 529.25 points.
Red were second with 477.75, followed by Blue (415.25), Purple (329) and Green with 327.75.
Having already won the Division 1 Girls’ long jump, triple jump and high jump, and with other points from the shot put, discus, 800 and 1 500 metres, Watson placed among the final eight in the 100, 200 and 400 metres yesterday.
The junior victrix ludorum was Green’s Rosette Hoyte with 56 points. Prior to the start of the day, she had finished second in the junior girls’ 3 000 metres and Division 3 long jump.
Hoyte also had a record run of 2 minutes 36.19 seconds in the 800 metres, replacing the 2:36.87 previously set by Sharaine Browne.
She then took the 100 in 13.2 seconds, the 200 metres in 27.1 seconds and the 400 metres in 1 minute 03 seconds, winning all of her races by considerable margins.
Meanwhile, Jade Searles of Red is now the proud recipient of the Eastlyn Jordan Trophy for the best distance runner after breaking two records, including one which stood for 24 years.
In the senior girls’ 3 000 metres, she clocked 11 minutes 49.81 seconds, shattering the 12:01.05 which was set by Nadia Mitchelle way back in 1989. Her own mark of 5:31.16 in the senior girls’ 1 500m was slashed to 5:08.16.
Yellow’s Drew-Ann Clarke also has her name in the books for the junior girls’ 3 000 with a time of 5:30.94, erasing Jamiyla Jordan’s ten-year mark of 5:56.
The defending Inter-School champs had good talent on show in all of the divisions.
In Division 5, it was Purple’s Shaquona Scott, who won the 100 metres in 14.1 seconds from Rodnica Jones (14.9) of Yellow. Scott also won the 200 in 29.9 and the 400 in 1:12.
No one could catch Red’s Destiny Straughn who was in total command in Division 4, with victories in the 100 (13.8), 200 (29.5) and 400 in 1:10 minutes.
Yellow’s Tristan Evelyn has returned after missing most of last season and, competing in Division 2, raced to victories in the 100 (12.3) and 200 (26.0) beating Blue’s Jalisa Burrowes (12.9/27.9) on both occasions. Evelyn also took the 400 metres in 1:04 from teammates Danielle Pollard (1:06) and Tshan Hart (1:07).
Blue’s Alisha Harris did the senior girls’ sprint double in 12.7 and 27.8, respectively, with Red’s Vanessa Hyman winning the two-lap 400 metres in 1:09.
