WHEN it comes to the primary schools in the North Georgetown District, Winfer Gardens Primary proved that they have the best athletes, after emerging winners of the Zone four North Georgetown Inter-School Championships.Winfer Gardens Primary last Friday won the track segment with 225 points, to end as overall champions among the primary schools in the North Georgetown District
Winfer Gardens had already captured the win in the field events of the competition, which also featured the schools competing against one another in swimming.
Overall, Winfer Gardens ended with 51 points to top the zone.
Despite finishing third in swimming and track, and seventh in the field events, North Georgetown Primary finished second place overall, after ending with 40 points.
St Angela’s Primary and St Margaret’s Primary shared the honours of third place after both landed 34 points. St Agnes Primary were fifth with 26 points, Ermsville Academy and St Ambrose Primary both ended with 22 points.
Marian Academy had 21 points, West Field Prep 20 points, and Green Acres 13 points.
Malacai Austin turned out to be St Angela’s best performing athlete. Austin took a sprint double in the Boys Under-10 100m and 200m, both times overcoming Winfer Gardens’ Dequan James.
Winfer Gardens boasted a sprint double win, in the Girls’ Under-10, owing to Jayna Hopkinson’s championing the 100m and 200m.
In the Under-12 category, Winfer Gardens Wesley Tyndel and St Agnes Sherwin Sampson battled it out in the 100m and 200m events. In the 100m Tyndel blazed his way to a first place finish to beat Sampson.
However, Sampson got the better of Tyndel in the 200m, while he also picked up the first place win of the 400m.