CHAMPS IN JAMAICA: Wolmer's' Jaheel Hyde, KC's Zharnell Hughes (10.12 secs) in blistering record runs....Scintillating 16-year-old St Jago star, Raheem Chambers, smashed Yohan Blake's Class Two 100m record of 10.34 secs and lowered it to an amazing 10.29 seconds.

BY HOWARD WALKER Observer senior reporter walker@jamaicaobserver.com  Saturday, March 29, 2014   

Kingston College’s Zharnel Hughes (left) reacts after
establishing a new record in the Class One 100m
 final ahead of Jevaughn Minzie of Bog Walk High.
Hughes won in 10.12 seconds, with Minzie stopping
 the clock at 10.16 seconds.
(PHOTO: BRYAN CUMMINGS)

DEFENDING champions Calabar High surged impressively to the top of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Athletics Championships with 83 points despite early mishaps to hold a 13.5-point advantage on a day that local fans witnessed three unbelievable records at the National Stadium yesterday.

Calabar rebounded in style after 15 finals and lead KC on 70.5 points and JC with 70 points going into the final day.

It was an amazing day and KC's Zharnel Hughes took schoolboy sprinting to another level with a jaw-dropping 10.12 seconds to smash Yohan Blake's record of 10.21 seconds done in 2007.

Hughes easily confirmed that he was the fastest junior in the region showing great top-end speed to catch Jevaughn Minzie, who also went below the previous record with 10.16 seconds.

Just minutes earlier, fans were left in awe as 16-year-old St Jago star, Raheem Chambers, smashed Yohan Blake's Class Two 100m record of 10.34 and lowered it to an amazing 10.29 seconds.

Chambers pulled the talented 15-year-old Jhevaughn Matherson of KC to 10.37 seconds. The lanky Akeem Bloomfield of KC limped in at eighth.

Wolmer’s Boys’ Jaheel Hyde clears a
 hurdle on his way to a smashing
 new 49.49-second record in the
 Class One 400m hurdles.

The irrepressible Jaheel Hyde of Wolmer's — the World Youth 110m hurdles champion — stepped up to the 400m hurdles and decimated the field in a National Junior record of 49.49 seconds, lowering Omar McLeod's 49.98 done last year.

The smooth-hurdling Hyde left Marvin Williams, the World Youth 400m hurdles champion, in his wake and in the process turned in the performance of the meet to date.

Tyreke Wilson and Dejour Russell gave Calabar maximum 16 points placing first and second in the Class Three 100m. Wilson just missed Matherson's record of 10.85, stopping the clock at 10.91 seconds. more