All Saints do double again

The Anton Norris Zone of the National Primary Schools Athletic Championships may just have to be renamed if this trend keeps up. For the seventh and sixth year running respectively, the girls and the boys of All Saints Primary have run off with the top spots at the zonal stage of the annual competition.

Descending on the National Stadium yesterday, the now-perennial champions sped off with massive totals as they won races left, right and centre. When the dust settled at the end of the day, the girls had amassed 216 points with a distant second place going to A DaCosta Edwards on 148. Blackman and Gollop Primary did well to get up to 116 points, while St. Martin’s Mangrove (105) and St. Matthew’s (77) rounded out the top five.

The boys were more aggressive taking 255 points while Hillaby Turners Hall Primary were more than 100 behind as they ended on 131. Blackman and Gollop got themselves another podium finish with 119 while A DaCosta Edwards were good for 91 and St. Jude’s, 89.

All Saints were almost unstoppable on the track and took the Victor and Victrix Ludorum titles to prove it. Najada Phillips roared to 30 points in the Under-9 Girls’. She was flawless in all three of her events clocking 12.79 seconds in the 80 metres, 15.86 in the 100 metres and 24.35 in the 250 metres.

Danari Griffith was the top boy and he also took 30 points in the Under-11 Boys sprint treble. In the 100 Metre he stopped the clock in 14.21 seconds after 29.23 in the 200 Metre and putting up a new record of 47.44 seconds in the 300 metres.

Lequan Nash and Raniko Armstrong also brought in division championships for All Saints with Nash racking up 28 points from wins in the Under-13 Boys’ 400 metre (1:05.24) and the 800 metre (2:39.56), and a second place leap of 4.35 in the Long Jump behind Blackman and Gollop’s Jazzair Best (4.35). Armstrong was good for 12 point sin the Under-7 Boys’ and he was third in the Triple Jump and Tennis Ball Throw.

Armstrong’s female counterpart hails from Gordon Greenidge Primary and Amira Mayers got herself up to 25 points after leaping 1.41 metres in the Under-7 Triple Jump, throwing a new record of 16.54 in the Tennis Ball Throw and a fourth-place finish in the 50 metre Dash.

The Under-9 Boys’ title went to Kenniko Darlington of Gordon Walters and he did well enough to end the day with 28 points. He was good for wins in the 100 metres (15.42) and the 150 metres, and he was second in the 80 metre with 12.66 to follow home All Saints’ Jalani Sealy (12.60).

A DaCosta Edwards Primary got in on the act with Kydashia Worrell picking up 26 points for the Under-11 Girls title. She had seconds in the 200 metres and Long Jump with 31.46 seconds and 3.47 metres, but to her credit, she won the 100 metres in 14.50 seconds.

Belmont Primary were mostly quiet on the day but Jakaira Jones-Smith had the loudest voice in their camp as she gave her team 28 points for the Under-13 Girls’ championship. Off the track, she was good for 1.29 metres and a Gold medal in the Open High Jump. She finished second in the 400 metres with 1:11.43 minutes but bounced back to put down a blazing 23.19 second for a new record in the 200 metres, knocking down 27.57.