Eight records were broken on Thursday’s opening day of the 2010 Milo central athletics championships at G.C. Foster college. Meanwhile, it's Edwin Allen and St. Jago who are out front in the girls' and boys' sections respectively. National representative Natoya Goule was responsible for 2 of the eight records. Goule clocked 10-minutes, 31.82 seconds to in 3000 meters open, better the 10-minutes.32.10 set in 2009, before lowering the 800 m class 1 record to 2-minutes.12.01. In the class 1 boys 800 meters Holmwood tech's Kevin White shaved a full second off the old mark racing to 1-minute, 52 seconds flat. Earlier Brian Smith of Clarendon College erased the old mark of 1-minute.57.92 seconds after stopping the clock at 1-minute.57.53 seconds in the class 2 boys 800. Old Harbour high's speedster Kemar Bailey-Cole, avenged his Carifta trials mishap by landing the class 1 boys 100 meters, in a new record of 10.58 seconds. Reigning Carifta games under - 20 champion Brandon Tomlinson of Manchester was second in 10.65 seconds. Dianna Johnson of Holmwood also set a new record in the class 3 equivalent racing to an efficient 11.80 seconds beating the 11.86 done in 2008. St. Jago's Natallia Whyte produced the only sub-12 clocking in class 4, sprinting to 11.97 seconds to eclipse the 12.16 done 2 years ago. Senoj-jay Givans 10.92 seconds and Adrian Samuda 11.39 seconds won the boys class 2 and 3 100 meters respectively. Edwin Allen lead the girls' category with 143 points, with defending champions Holmwood technical 130, St. Jago 129, Manchester 95 and Vere Technical 92 completing the top five. Meanwhile, defending boys champions St. Jago sit atop their category on 123.5 points. Holmwood 68 and Edwin Allen 53.5 round-off the top 3.
