Di­a­mond Vale Gov­ern­ment School yes­ter­day made it 32 wins from 32 years yes­ter­day when it ran away Mi­lo Kelvin Nan­coo Pri­ma­ry School Games in the West B Zone.

The school called the "Jew­el of Diego Mar­tin" won both the boys and girls cat­e­gories but had to set­tle for the sec­ond spot in the march past com­pe­ti­tion be­ing beat­en by three points by Pat­na Riv­er Es­tate.

In front of a large crowd at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Port-of-Spain, Di­a­mond Vale was boost­ed by the per­for­mances of eight-year-old Taqwan Charles and Aja­nia Tay­lor in the Un­der-9 boys and Girls cat­e­gories. Hakim Sa­landy was su­perb win­ning all his events along with Nico­la Shep­pard, who dom­i­nat­ed the U-15 girls' cat­e­go­ry, win­ning the 100 me­tres, 200m and 400m events.

There were al­so great per­for­mances from Jene­ice Bur­ton, who was just touched off by Teshawana Pope of St An­tho­ny's Girls Ro­man Catholic School, for the U-13 girl's vic­trix lu­do­rum.

Care­nage Girls turned de­feat in­to vic­to­ry when they came from be­hind to de­feat Mar­aval RC in the girls' cat­e­go­ry of the West A Cham­pi­onship. This was the 19th Cham­pi­onship vic­to­ry for the school which pro­duced Michelle-Lee Ahye, the cur­rent Com­mon­wealth Games 100m cham­pi­on and the "Sports­woman of the Year" for the third time at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed First Cit­i­zens Sports Awards.

Main ri­val, Mar­aval RC, took the boys' cat­e­go­ry in im­pres­sive fash­ion as they post­ed a score of 161 points to near­est ri­val Dun­ross Prepara­to­ry which amassed 94 points.

Since the in­cep­tion of the Mi­lo Games in 1987, Di­a­mond Vale has nev­er lost the track and field meet, now called the Kelvin Nan­coo Pri­ma­ry School Games. As a re­sult, from Prin­ci­pal Yvonne Pin­der lead­er­ship to cur­rent Prin­ci­pal David Weekes, the school has been dubbed the "The Jew­el of Diego Mar­tin".

Di­a­mond Vale Gov­ern­ment won six of the eight re­lays con­test­ed to as­sured them­selves of both cham­pi­onships.

There were some ex­cel­lent per­for­mances and Nao­mi Buck­mire and Savion Adams both of Crys­tal Stream Gov­ern­ment be­ing a dou­ble win­ner on the day pro­gramme. Teshaw­na Pope of St An­tho­ny's Girl Rc School speed to vic­to­ry in there 100 and 200 me­tres events.

The day be­gan in splen­dour as nine­teen teams marched for su­prema­cy in two Zones in the West Zon­al Cham­pi­onships. At the end of the won­der­ful mu­sic of the Po­lice band, Pat­na Riv­er Es­tate was ad­judged win­ners from Di­a­mond Vale Gov­ern­ment with Diego Mar­tin Gov­ern­ment third with 166 points.

In the West A March Past, Mar­aval RC con­tin­ued their dom­i­nance with an out­stand­ing dis­play to se­cured 174 points. The Prin­ci­pal of Mar­aval RC, Kern Camp­bell was as proud as a pea­cock to win his first cham­pi­onship and March Past ti­tle in his first year at the helm.

La Sie­va RC was sec­ond with 158 points, with West­port SDA a close up third on 152.

MI­LO 2019 HO­N­OUR ROLL:

March Past Cham­pi­ons:

West A: 1 Mar­aval RC - 174; 2 La Sie­va RC - 158; 3 West­port SDA - 152.

West B: 1 Pat­na Riv­er Es­tate Gov't - 175; 2 Di­a­mond Vale Gov't - 172; 3 Diego Mar­tin Gov't - 166

Cham­pi­on School:

West A Girls: 1 Care­nage Girls - 75; 2 Mar­aval Girls Rc - 35; 3 Dun­ross Prep - 25

West A Boys: 1 Mar­aval RC - 161; 2 Dun­ross - 94; 3 In­ter­na­tion­al School of Port-of-Spain - 58

West A Vic­trix Lu­do­rum:

U-9: Sal­imah Lawrence (Care­nage Girls Gov't)

U-11: Ak­e­ria Lea­cock (Mar­aval RC)

U-13: Fa­ti­ma Springer (Co­corite Gov't)/Kaya Subero (Mar­aval RC)

U-15: Sha­nia Prescott (Care­nage Girl's Gov't)

West A Vic­tor Lu­do­rum:

U-9: Ken­na Fletch­er (Co­corite Gov't)

U-11: Tan­non Niemey­er (Dun­ross Prep)

U-13: Ali Hen­ry (Care­nage Boys Gov't)

U-15: Jayquan Bernard (Care­nage Boy's Gov't)

West B Vic­trix Lu­do­rum:

U-9: Taqwah Charles (Di­a­mond Vale Gov't)

U-11: Nao­mi Buck­mire (Crys­tal Stream Gov't)

U-13: Teshaw­na Pope (St An­tho­ny's Girls RC)

U-15: Nico­la Shep­pard (Di­a­mond Vale Gov't)

West B Vic­tor Lu­do­rum:

U-9: Ajani Tay­lor (Di­a­mond Vale Gov't)

U-11: Savion Adams (Crys­tal Stream Gov't)

U-13: Hakim Sa­landy (Di­a­mond Vale Gov't)

U-15: Tim­o­thy Simp­son (Pat­na Riv­er Es­tate Gov't