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Nov 27, 2015 Sports
– Phillips record-breaking sojourn continues
By Edison Jefford
East Coast Demerara’s, Kenisha Phillips continued her record-breaking sojourn at the National Schools’ Championships yesterday in the 200m, but Upper Demerara/Kwakwani dominated the fourth day of track
and field competition to take an unassailable lead.
Upper Demerara currently sit comfortably atop the points table with a handful of track and field events remaining on the final day of competition today with 525.5 points. North Georgetown has the second position with 374 points while Corentyne is third with 299 points.
Phillips, who a day before had broken the Girls’ 100m U-16 record, repeated the performance in the 200m in 25.4 seconds, which erased the 25.6s mark of Tirana Mitchell and Avon Samuels in 2012 and 2013 respectively at the same venue.
East Georgetown’s Cassie Small was second in 26.0 seconds with South Georgetown’s Tiffauna Garnett third in 26.2 seconds. North Georgetown’s, Samuels also smashed the U-18 record over the same distance.
Samuels ran 25.5 seconds, which was a split second better than Shannon Griffith’s 2012 mark to win the race ahead of archrival, East Georgetown, Natricia Hooper (26.1s) and West Demerara’s Sheneal Hughes (26.9 seconds).
While there were those moments of success for other competing Districts, Upper Demerara was the dominant team, setting itself up for another big win in the track and field competition of the three-disciplined National Schools’ Championships.
Upper Demerara’s Daniel Williams won the 200m Boys’ U-16 race in 22.6 seconds with South Georgetown’s Umkosi Vancooten (23.3s) and Corentyne’s Esan Leitch (23.4s) finishing second and third respectively.
The dominant athletics District’s ace sprinter, Compton Caesar continued the tradition in the U-18 Boys race with a 22.3 seconds performance. The Commonwealth Youth finalists won against New Amsterdam’s Tyrell Peters (22.5s) and West Coast Berbice’s, Titus Webster, who turned in 22.7 seconds.
Kenisha Prescott then completed a sprint double for Upper Demerara in the U-20 female version of the race in 27.1 seconds. North Georgetown’s, Isoke Britton (27.5s), and East Georgetown’s, Mearisha Carter (27.6s) was second and third respectively.
North Georgetown’s Jason Yaw made amends for his 100m third place finish on Wednesday in the 200m with a 22.2 seconds performance that gave him the nod ahead of East Georgetown’s, Linton Mentis (22.5s) and West Demerara’s Tevin Garraway (22.6s).
Joshua Hercules sprinted to victory in the U-14 Boys 200m in 25.0 for New Amsterdam with the Corentyne’s Jameel Browne (25.6) finishing second. Upper Demerara’s Akeem Venture finished third in 26.1 seconds.
North Georgetown’s Yesenia Andrews won the female version in 26.6 seconds ahead of Upper Demerara’s Deshanna Skeete (26.8s) and East Coast’s Jamela Sancho (27.7s). The East Bank’s, Odessa France won the U-12 Girls race in 29.2 seconds ahead of North Georgetown’s, Shinana Liverpool (29.6s) and Corentyne’s, Alana Winter (29.8s).
East Georgetown’s, Keifon Jack sprinted to the male U-12 title ahead of North Georgetown’s, Wesley Tyndall (28.1s) and East Coast’s, Joel Johnson (28.3s) respectively.
Meanwhile, in one of the highlights of the day, Upper Demerara’s Shaquille Smartt, Corentyne’s Kevin Norah and North Georgetown’s Orin Prince provided the photo finish in the 1500m Boys’ U-20 race with Prince getting the nod for gold.
Prince won in 4:38.7 while Norah was given second in 4:38.8, and Smartt third in 4:38.9 as split seconds separated the three finishers. Shontel Hinds continued her dominance in the female race for Upper Demerara in 5:26.4, which was better than North Georgetown’s Mariah McKenzie and Rupununi’s Simona Lawrence’s 5:32.1 and 5:40.3 respectively.
Mathew McKenzie gave North Georgetown the U-18 Boys 1500m race in 4:29.0 as West Coast Berbice’s Jason Reece was second in 4:30.8 and Corentyne’s Delroy Leitch third in 4:32.7. The defending overall champs, North Georgetown got another spurt from Maria Urquhart in the Girls race with a 5:26.6 run. West Coast Berbice’s Delicia Harper (5:31.3) and Serena Williams (5:32) from Upper Demerara was second and third.
In the U-16 age group, Jeremy Garrett won the Boys’ race in 4:37.8 while South Georgetown’s, Ronaldo Wishart (4:40.6) and Rupununi’s Graven Stephen (4:44.8) was second and third in that order. Claudrice McKoy won the girls race in 5:10.1 to secure her third title of the Championship ahead of Rupununi’s Margaret Augusto (5:22.4) and West Demerara’s Joanna Archer, who ran a time of 5:24 for third.
West Coast Berbice’s Mathew Gordon won the male U-14 race in 4:49.4 ahead of Essequibo Coast/Pomeroon’s Shervin O’Neil (4:54.7) and Upper Demerara’s Murphy Nash (4:57.9). Upper Demerara’s, Shauka Tyrell won the girls race in 5:27.8 ahead of Rupununi’s, Marica Andrews (5:31.0) and East Coast’s Kissanna Glen, who ran 5:50.1 for third. The competition continues at 10am today where a new champion may be crowned.
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