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Upper Demerara does it again
Has grip on Schools’ C/ships
Champion Male Cyclist in the Open category, Christopher Holder leads the pack into the final turn in the Devil Take the Hindmost cycle race at the Albion Community Centre Ground Friday afternoon.
By Edison Jefford
Upper Demerara and Kwakwani ensured that the overall National Schools’ Championship trophy remains in the District for the fifth time in the New Millennium with a transparent victory Friday night at the Albion Community Centre Ground.
Upper Demerara, District 10 won their 14th overall title since the competition was started in 1959 after amassing 574 points to win the Track and Field contest of the Championship. The team was awarded 67 total points from the four competitions.
Sixteen Districts vied for supremacy in Cycling, Swimming, Track and Field and Teachers’ sport events over four days at Albion in the schools’ competition. It was an atmosphere fit for rivalries as the ones that were seen in the various contests.
North Georgetown, who finished second overall with 63 points, won the Swimming competition on the opening day while hosts, Corentyne took the Cycling contest as Bartica won the Teachers’ title to round off the top three overall finishers on 56 points.
New Amsterdam was fourth with 53 points while Corentyne came fifth with 47 points at home in a performance that should ignite the community that visibly invested seriously to host the contest that brought thousands to the Community Centre Ground.
The build up to the event was magnificent as each day witnessed sizable crowds at the venue that was greeted with a capacity turn out Friday. West Demerara finished sixth overall with 45 points as Essequibo Coast and East Georgetown tied for seventh.
Both teams amassed 42 points for the position with East Coast Demerara in ninth on 41 points as South Georgetown completed the top ten teams on 37 points. East Bank Demerara was 11th with 25 points as the Rupununi finished 12th on 21 points.
West Coast Berbice and Potaro tied for the next position with 15 points while North West ended with 14 points for 15th place and Essequibo Islands 12 points to seal the overall scores for those Districts that competed in the 2009 National Schools’ event.
North Georgetown’s, Christopher Holder copped the Open Champion Cyclist award after he had a total of 38 points while Corentyne’s Dwight Holder was runner-up on 36 points. Maricka Dick won the female Open version with a total of 40 points.
Roxanna Rigby
Essequibo Coast’s Andro Best was given the Under-14 Champion Cyclist prize with 28 points as Girja Stanley of the
Winston Caesar
East Coast of Demerara won the female prize with 22 points. Bartica’s Aleline Simmons was female runner-up in that category.
In the Track and Field competition, Obadelle Manifold from West Demerara was Under-14 male champion with 26 points while North Georgetown’s Shomane Daniels took the female version of the award with a total of 33 points in the contest. Upper Demerara’s, Parish Cadogan took top honours in the Under-16 category with 30 points as national junior middle distance athlete and CARIFTA Games gold medallist, Jevina Straker was awarded the female version with the same amount of points.
Upper Demerara continued to dominate the prize ceremony when Winston Caesar got the nod for Champion Athlete in the Under-20 category with 31 points as New Amsterdam’s Roxanna Rigby carted off the female award with a total of 30 points.
Upper Demerara’s Jeremiah Sampson was handed the Under-8 Boys’ Champion Athlete Award with 30 points as Corentyne, Dionne Johnson got the female award. West Coast Berbice’s Tevin Prince won Under-10 along with Corentyne’s, Latoya Leitch.
Upper Demerara’s Compton Caesar won the male Under-12 prize with 30 points. East Georgetown’s Angel Simmons claimed the female version with 28 points.
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