Alpha's Shermaine Williams ... won Class One 100m hurdles in 13.85 at JC meet. - file

Based on last Saturday's results from the opening track and field meet at Jamaica College the 2007 high school season should again be very exciting.

Holmwood Technical have already signalled that they will be hard to beat among the girls but the battle for the boys' title could be as close as last year when Kingston College beat Calabar High by just two points, 233.5 to 231.5.

At JC the hosts who scored 139 points at last year's Boys Championships were just five points behind the meet champions KC and could make it a real three-way tussle for the top spot at the GraceKennedy-sponsored March 28-31 championships.

With archrivals Vere Tech-nical absent Holmwood piled up 261.50 points at JC putting them well clear of Manchester High on 171.50 and Edwin Allen 164.50.

The outstanding performer at the meet was definitely Shermaine Williams of Alpha Academy. Williams, in her first year in Class One, clocked 13.85 seconds for the 100m hurdles. Last year Williams won in Class Two ahead of team-mate Rosemarie Carty. Carty who is still in Class Two clocked 14.32 to win her event.

Holmwood's Sashawna Ben-nett, winner of the Class Three 80m hurdles in 2006 is back in the same class and showed that it will take somebody special to deny her as she was by far the fastest on the day with 11.92, well ahead of Halle Green of St. Andrew High with 12.16.

KC swept the hurdles in all three classes at JC with last year's runner-up in Class Two, Keiron Stewart, looking set to dominate in Class One this year. Lemmar Wilson and Kemarley Henry were the win-ners in Classes Three and Two respectively.

Donahue Williams who won the Class Two 1500m in record time last year for KC is also back in the same class and seems to have the 800m, 1500m double in the bag. He was the fastest in the class over 800m on Saturday.

Big things can be expected from Campion's Theon O'Con-nor in the Class One 800m this year. The two-lap record for Class One, 1:48.84, was set almost 20 years ago by Vere Technical's Sherwin Burgess and O'Connor should have this mark in his sights in 2007. Last year he clocked 1:50.95 and with his season already going well he should be able to get below 1:48.0 if pressed.

Former girls champions Manchester High, led by the versatile middle distance runner Natoya Goule, should also have a good season. In the 3000m at Champs last year 15-year-old Goule won with her teammate, 16-year-old Neisha Morgan in third. At JC they were one-two in the event and they should not be separated at Champs.