By Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer 
Vere's Shanique Whyte (second right) anchors her team to
victory in the Class Four 4x100m
relay at yesterday's South Central High School
athletics Championships at Kirkvine Sports Club
in Manchester. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer
VERE TECHNICAL girls retained their title while Holmwood boys dethroned Central for the boys' crown at yesterday's South Central High Schools Athletics Championships at Kirkvine Sports Club, Manchester.
Vere tallied 411 points to finish ahead of Edwin Allen (319), Holmwood (317), Manchester (266) and Bellefield (45).
Holmwood boys who trailed defending champions Central and Manchester going into the relays, came up big to win by 10 points.
They ended up with 183 points to Manchester (173), Central (172), Claude McKay (108) and Clarendon College (105).
The boys from Christiana, who entered the championships without some of their top runners, came into the picture as late as the sprint medley relay, which they won.
Despite taking the first two sprint relays, Central suffered when Holmwood boys took Class One and closed the show and secured the championships with victory in the mile relay.
GALLANT RUN
Holmwood girls with a Anastashia Le-Roy on anchor leg won the 4x400m, beating Edwin Allen. Le-Roy, who had a seven-metre lead over Edwin Allen's Sherene Pinnock, found herself trailing into the last 100m, but produced a gallant run to defend her school's title.
Meanwhile, Vere's highlight of the championships came when they swept the girls' hurdles.
The school, from Hayes in Clarendon, finished one-two in the Class One 100m hurdles through Indira Spence (14:01) and Angella Graham (14:58).
Carla-Kay Mills (14.45) defeated Holmwood's Tanesha Blair (15:16) in the Class Two 100m hurdles.
In the shorter hurdles, Kay-Marie Jones (12:00) won the Class Three 80m and Lanice Hall (10:77) took the Class Four 70m event.
Kevoy Douglas of Clarendon College won the boys' Class One 110m hurdles event in 16:45 seconds while Julian Kennedy of Holmwood took Class Two in 18:10.
HOTLY CONTESTED
The 200m events were hotly contested as Manchester's Nester Carter, Trison Taylor of Central High, Holmwood's Schilonie Calvert and Anneisha McLaughlin dominated.
In this distance, Holmwood won three of the four girls' finals.
McLaughlin (23.90) defeated Stephanie Simpson of Manchester (24:10) for the Class One title; Calvert (23.70) beat Edwin Allen's Naffene Briscoe (24:30) in Class Two while Holmwood Petra Fanty (25:20) beat Lanice Hall of Vere (25:50) in Class Four.
The spoiler came when Jura Levy of Vere (24:60) defeated Manchester's Denesha Morris (24:80) in Class Three.
On the boys' side, Carter was impressive in his 21.60 clocking, so too was Taylor in 21.69. Jamie Davis of Holmwood (23:30) won Class Three.
In the boys' Class One long jump, Adrian Campbell of Edwin Allen leapt 5.80m to beat Peter Byfield of Manchester (5.77m) and Kingsley Clarke of Holm-wood (5.70m) while Angella Graham of Vere (5.28m) beat Janice Brown of Holmwood (4.83m) in the girls' section.
Megan Reid of Holmwood won the girls' Class One high jump with a height of 1.65m.
Lanford Salmon of Clarendon College (CC) won the boys' Class One shot put, throwing 35.35m to beat Jason Diggs-White of Glenmuir (34.80m).
Edwin Allen's Latanya Nation (39.07m) won the girls' Class Two discus. She beat Keneisha Throughsingh of Vere (35.96m) and Holmwood's Taneisha Blair (33.06m).
Scotteisha Parchment of Manchester (37.64m) beat Angella Graham of Vere (32.80m) and Tanya Thomas her teammate (32.50m) for the Class One event. Nigel McLean of Vere (40:65m) beat Omar Francis of Edwin Allen (37:37m) for the big boys' crown.
