SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Seventeen finals are scheduled to be completed on today's eliminations of the Milo County of Cornwall Athletics Association's Boys Western Champs at the St Elizabeth Technical Sports Complex in Santa Cruz, starting at 9:30 am.

Fifteen field events finals and two track events are scheduled to be decided today, including all three discus and shot put events, the javelin Open, all four high jumps and two long jump finals as well as the 3,000m and 5,000m races.

Meet director Steve Smith said yesterday that there was a possibility that one of the middle distance races could be moved to Saturday's final day, which will be combined with the girls, at the Montego Bay Sports Complex.

Thirty-one schools led by defending champions Munro College, along with Maggotty High and Merlene Ottey High, who are returning, will vie for championship points.

IAAF World Youth Championships 100m gold medallist Odail Todd of Green Island High and Munro College's Delano Williams are on course to clash over the Class One sprints, but no doubt will be kept apart today.

Last year Williams won the sprint double, while Todd was second in the 200m and third in the 100m.

Todd, however, looked in awesome form at last weekend's Milo Western Relays, leading his team to wins in both the 4x100m and 4x200m races, the first ever victory for the Michael McIntosh coached Hanover school.

Munro dominated the middle distance events and the field events last year and is expected to continue their stranglehold in the latter this year.

Emmanuel Oniya will seek to retain his titles in the Class One discus and shot put events today.

Meanwhile, defending champions St Elizabeth Technical look well set to win an 11th straight girls title after taking an early lead after Tuesday's eliminations held at Herbert Morrison Technical.

STETHS scored 107 points from the 11 finals contested, 36 points ahead of former champions Mannings School with Herbert Morrison back in third place on 52 points.

Two new records were set as Herbert Morrison Technical's Kishauna Smith clocked 11.84 seconds to win her semi-final heat of the Class Three 100m, erasing the two-year-old mark of 11.96 seconds that was set by William Knibb's Shanel Johnson.

St Elizabeth Technical's national junior representative Alethia McLaughlin established the new 3,000m record when she won the events in 10 minutes 55.24 seconds, beating the six-year-old mark of 10 minutes 55.6 seconds set by another STETHS runner, Judith Powell in 2006.

CARIFTA Games Under-20 high jump champion, Peta Gay Reid of STETHS, won two events extending her streak of having never never lost a high jump event at Western Champs after clearing 1.70m for the Class One title. She then returned to defeat Herbert Morrison's Seidatha Palmer to take the long jump gold medal with a best jump of 5.34m.

Mannings' Lecia Dale was second with 5.02m with Palmer third with 4.95m.

Hampton School's Sanola Dunkley, who is being coached by former national junior representative Debra Rose, threw a creditable 33.20m to win the javelin throw Open.

Herbert Morrison's Keja Christie was second with 29.10m in her first attempt at the event with Irwin High's Sasha Layne third with 25.34m.

Jenese Colquhoun of Herbert Morrison improved on her silver medal from last year to win the gold in the shot put Open with a best mark of 11.57m to beat Mannings' Omesha Locke, who threw 11.04m. Rashel Reid, also of Mannings, tclaimed the bronze with 10.50m.

Points standings (girls) after 11 finals: STETHS 107; Mannings School 71; Herbert Morrison 52; Hampton School-42; Lewisville 18; Grange Hill 15; Lacovia 14; Montego Bay High 14; BB Coke 10; Irwin 10; Holland High 9; Green Island 8; Spot Valley 6; Maud McLeod 5; Albert Town 4; Godfrey Stewart 4; Black River 2; Frome Technical 1.

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