Two new overall champions were crowned last night at the ninth Schools Relay Classic hosted by Bermuda Pacers Track Club, as only TN Tatem retained their middle schools title from last year.

TN Tatem beat Whitney Middle School by two points, 48 to 46 to win for the seventh time while Saltus finished a distant third on 12 points.

West Pembroke replaced Elliott Primary as the primary school champions, collecting 34 points to defeat Somerset Primary on 24 points.

Elliott Primary tied for third on 14 points with Harrington Primary.

CedarBridge Academy dethroned Berkeley Institute as the high school champions, collecting 60 points to Berkeley’s 46.

West Pembroke won the girls primary school title with 18 points while Harrington Primary came second on 14 points.

They were also second in the primary school boys with 16 points, with Somerset Primary finishing first on 20 points.

The West Pembroke 4x400 metres girls team of Keidel Astwood, Sa’Mya Lightbourne, Tele Simons and Antasia Nesbitt recorded a winning time of 5min 02.09sec in the final to finish ahead of Harrington Primary in 5:11.87.

In the 4x100 Warwick Academy (Asia-Leigh Hollis, Siena Woolridge, Katelynn Demaure and Shayla Cann) recorded a winning time of 58.43 to beat West Pembroke who finished second in 1:00.46 and Harrington Sound Primary who placed third in 1:02.79.

PHC, who had a men’s and women’s team, were the combined winners of the Community Division, finishing on 28 points, while City Runners, a Corporation of Hamilton team, placed second on 14 points and Dash third on ten points.

The event was delayed a week because of bad weather last Friday, but Cal Simons, the meet director, was pleased with last night’s conditions and turnout.

Pacers are hoping to grow the event to include overseas schools for next year’s tenth anniversary.

“We are absolutely thrilled by the turnout tonight, they represented their schools with honour and that’s what this track meet is all about,” Simons said. “It’s about getting that school spirit and for us who promote track and field, it gave us the chance to see some kids that we would not normally see on the track.

“Next year will be our tenth anniversary and we need to work hard to see if we can get a major sponsor for this event because it is worthy of a major sponsor right now. We probably had close to 2,000 people in here tonight and that kind of atmosphere is great for track and field.

“Hopefully next year we can get bigger and better. What we would like to do for next year is to invite some school teams from the United States and make it a three-day event, the relays on the Friday night and a track meet on the Saturday and Sunday. That’s our goal.”