Anthony Foster, Freelance Writer
Manchester's Shana-Gaye Tracey (right) races across the finish line to beat Vere's Jura Levy in the girls' Class Three 400m final on yesterday's first day of the South Central Athletics Championships at Kirkvine in Manchester. Tracey won in a record 56.9 seconds ahead of Levy (57.3). - JUNIOR DOWIE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
VERE TECHNICAL girls and Glenmuir boys are the early leaders entering today's second and final day of the South Central Athletics Championships at Kirkvine Sports Complex in Manchester.
Defending girls champions Vere lead with 87 points after 10 finals. They are followed closely by Holmwood (86), Edwin Allen (81) and Manchester (76), while Glenmuir (37) lead defending boys' winners Holmwood (29), Claude McKay (29), Edwin Allen and Central (28 points each).
Four records were broken and one equalled yesterday.
Edwin Allen's Sherene Pinnock ran 59.7 to erase her two-year-old girls' 400m hurdles Open mark of 1:03.00 while Holmwood's Jermaine Christie took the boys' event in 59.6 to erase the previous mark of 1:06.00.
Holmwood's Bobbie-Gaye Wilkins ran 54.9 to beat the previous record of 55.10 while Vere's Class Three quarter-miler Trudy-Ann Clarke ran 56.9 to beat the old mark of 57.10.
EQUALLED PREVIOUS MARK
Manchester's Denesha Morris ran 11.5 in the Class Three to equal the previous mark and Shana-Gay Tracey ran 56.9 to remove the 57.10 in the Class Three 400m.
Holmwood, with Rose-Marie White and Omar Brown, won the girls' and boys' Class One 100m events.
White took the girls' title in 11.4 ahead of Vere's Indira Spence (11.8) while Brown won the boys' event in 10.6.
Edwin Allen's Francine Simpson won the girls' 100m Class Two in 11.3 while Holmwood's Jamie Davy (11.0) took the boys' event in that section.
Theon Davy of Knox won the boys' Class Three in 11.8 while Denesha Morris of Manchester (11.5) took the girls equivalent.
Manchester with Orenthia Bennett (12.1) beat Diandra Whitehorne (12.1) for the girls' Class Four title in the 100m.
Trudy-Ann Clarke of Vere (54.3) beat Holmwood's pair of Jerine Bolt (55.7) and Anastasia Le-Roy (55.9) in the girls' Class One 400m.
Edwin Allen's Claude Melchado (51.1) beat Steven Huslin of Central (52.0) in the boys' Class Two 400m while Claude McKay's Omar Johnson (49.1) won in Class One.
