Many-time champions Oberlin High laid down the gauntlet to all challengers on day one of the Jamaica National/Eastern Secondary Schools Sports Association Athletic Championships at the University of West Indies/Usain Bolt Track, closing with a slight lead over defending champions Buff Bay yesterday.
Four records were broken as Oberlin, desperate to reclaim the crown they lost to Buff Bay last year, closed the day on 136 points, eight more than the defending champs who have set themselves up nicely for a showdown.
Both teams have distanced themselves from the pack after 17 completed finals.
Titchfield are third on 55 points, Glengoffe (50) fourth, while St Mary High close out the top five on 49.5.
Titchfield's Shantel Reid twice smashed the Class One girls' discus record, to highlight yesterday's action.
Reid first hurled 35.52m to erase Ashantia Hayden's old mark of 33.41 metres, before going even further with a 38.35m posting.
Robert Thomas (Paul Bogle High) made light of the old Class One boys' discus record, posting 47.14m en route to winning the finals and in the process erasing the old mark of 39.09m.
Oberlin's Shanice Lee, 1.65m bettered Trudy Ann Powell's (Morant Bay) 1.55m in the Class Two girls' high jump final, while Titchfield's Shavanes Robinson, 4:31.34, smashed the Class Three boys' 1500m record, which previously stood at 4:39.45.
Morant Bay High qualified with the fastest time in the Class Two boys' 4x100m with 44.69, but should be hard pressed by St Mary Technical, 45.05, and Buff Bay, 45.85, in today's final.
Javere Bell (Seaforth High) eased to 22.23 seconds in the Class One boys' 200m, the fastest qualifying time for today's final, with St Thomas Technical's Brandon McIntosh (22.25) posting the second fastest.
Glengoffe's Trishauna Hemmings, 4.43m, won the Class Four girls' long jump ahead of Raphana Brown from Buff Bay, 4.31m, and Oberlin's Theana Fraser, who posted 4.17m for bronze.
Oberlin's Sashae Fender, 5:13.08, was too strong for her peers, as she helped herself to the gold medal in the Class Three girls' 1500m final, while Shamona Hunt (Glengoffe), 5:18.12, was second with Doneta Hunt (Buff Bay), 5:28.09, running third.
The Class Two girls' were considerably slower with Oberlin's Margaret McKay claiming the event in 5:21.29. Glengoffe's Sanque Richards, 5:25.06, and St Mary's College's Diane Lamont, 5:45.77, finished second and third, respectively.
Oberlin High completed the sweep in the event, with Anna-Kay McCallum winning the Class One final in 5:26.86 ahead of Buff Bay's Lacy-Ann Lecky, 5:31.41, and Seaforth's Shareen Daley, 5:36.50.
Rohan Simms (Titchfield) won the Class One boys' 1500m final in 4:15.75, while Annotto Bay's Collin Miles, 4:23.16 and Oberlin's Marcel Lamb, 4:25.31, claimed the other podium spots.
Yallahs' Orando Morgan won the Class Two boys' 1500m finals in 4:26.80, while Annotto Bay's Gawayne Richards, 4:29.55, ran second and St Mary Technical's Anthony Small, 4:31.01, finished third.
Christopher Shakespeare (Morant Bay) won the boys' Class Two long jump final with a 6.15m jump ahead of the St Mary Tech duo of Theo Walker, 6.11m, and Tashane Riley, 5.99m.
Jodeen Williams' (St Mary High) 12.58 was the fastest female in all classes in the girls' 100m prelims, winning her Class Two heat in 12.58 seconds.
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