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Dove flies off with honours in St Stephen’s School Athletic C/ships
It was truly a day of fun and frolic when the St Stephen’s Primary School staged its Inter House Athletics Championships at the National Insurance Ground, Carifesta Avenue yesterday afternoon and when the smoke had cleared, Dove House with a total of 169 points emerged victorious after dethroning last year’s champions, Kiskadee House, which ended with 109 points and Eagle House in the cellar with 107 points.
Rondell Jordon
Rondell Jordon notched up victories in the Boys’ Under-12 200m, 400m, 1200m and anchored the 4×100 relay team to victory; he was eventually adjudged champion boy while Keisha Luke King won the champion girl award after winning the Girls’ Under-12 200m, 400m, 1000m and the 4x100m relay.
Kiskadee House returned to take the prize for the best group on the march past parade while Dove House copped the prize for the Best Uniformed Team. Sherry Caesar was awarded the Best teacher prize.
Indeed, the tots really turned in gritty performances and even the teachers joined in the frolic, egging on their respective athletes. An especially entertaining race occurred in the Girls U-8, 200M event when Shania King blaze away from her competitors and was the first to brace the line. Monella Johnson and Jada O’Brien finished behind her in that order.
The sportsmanlike environment continued right up to the end of the prize giving ceremony when the tots from the winning unit broke into song; “Dove is the best, better than the rest; any other house, is a no contest.”
Keisha Luke King
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