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North Georgetown topples Upper Demerara
CHAMPIONS AGAIN! Digicel’s Head of Marketing, Jacqueline James (centre) joins North Georgetown as they celebrate winning their 13th overall title in the National Schools’ Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships last night.
– edge closer to overall title leader
North Georgetown edged closer to Upper Demerara and Kwakwani last night in the overall title race of the National Schools’ Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships when the District won its 13th overall title at the National Stadium. Upper Demerara performed poorly in the Teachers’ Championships after being in contention of an overall title defence in the other Championships to basically gift wrap the title for their nemesis North Georgetown in the 52nd Edition of the competition. Upper Demerara are the current overall leaders in the Championships with a total of 14 titles.
The defending champions, Upper Demerara placed seventh in the Teachers’ Championships with North Georgetown winning that competition. The team with the most points from the placements in the Teachers, Track and Field, Cycling and Swimming competitions is declared ‘Champion of Champions’ as the overall title is usually called.
In the overall title race, North Georgetown finished with 72 points while Upper Demerara had 65 points for second.
Corentyne was third with 51 points while Bartica finished fourth on 47 points; East Georgetown rounded off the top five with 45 points; New Amsterdam finished sixth with 44 points while West Demerara was seventh with 41 points; East Coast Demerara eighth with 40½ points; West Coast Berbice ninth with 40 points and South Georgetown tenth with 37 points.
The Essequibo Coast was eleventh with 34 points; Rupununi twelfth with 32½ points; North West on 27½ points for thirteenth; East Bank (22½ points) for fourteenth; Potaro/Siparunon 12 points for fifteenth and Essequibo Islands in the cellar position on four points.
North Georgetown amassed some 240 points to win the Teachers’ Championships ahead of West Demerara (192 points) and Bartica (182 points); East Georgetown was fourth with 166 points the Corentyne was fifth with 140 points and New Amsterdam sixth with138 points; Upper Demerara placed seventh with 105 points; West Coast Berbice eighth with 104 points; South Georgetown’s 70 points was good for the ninth spot with East Bank Demerara placing tenth with 66 points and Essequibo Coast eleventh with 58 points; North West and East Coast was tied for twelfth with 41 points while the Rupununi was in the cellar position with 23 points.
North Georgetown had also won the Swimming Championships earlier this week. They dropped the track and field championships to the usually super strong athletic-based, Upper Demerara and placed third in the cycling on their way to amassing more overall points.
In the track and field competition, Upper Demerara compiled 646½ points to win that title ahead of North Georgetown with 577½ points. Corentyne was third with 483 points; East Coast was in the fourth position with 427 points; New Amsterdam fifth with 374½ points; West Coast Berbice sixth with 341½ points; Essequibo Coast (332½); Rupununi (325½); West Demerara (306); South Georgetown (292); East Georgetown (267); Bartica (236); East Bank (229); the Essequibo Islands (129) and Potaro (47) were the other teams that featured among the points.
Corentyne won the cycling competition with 169 points with Upper Demerara second with 126 points and North Georgetown third with 97 points. South Georgetown was fourth with 88 points and West Coast Berbice (77 points) rounded up the top five districts in cycling.
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