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Queen’s Royal College closes out its Penn Relays 2011 campaign with a creditable fourth place finish in Event 462 – High School Boys’ 4×100 Small Schools.

Fresh off their run in the High School Boys’ 4×400 this morning, Deon Lendore, Asa Guevara and Jonathan Farinha were joined by team mate Johnathan Holder and completed the sprint relay in 42.24s.  Their time was just 0.55 seconds shy of the winning time set by Jamaica’s Camperdown High School.  Junipero Serra Gardena High School of Gardena, California and Herbert Morrison Technical High School of Montego Bay in Jamaica finished second and third respectively.

QRC.edu again extends congratulations to the boys and the College on another year of fine performances at the Penn Relays.

We further extend thanks to the QRC North America, DC Chapter for this alumni group’s ongoing and material support of QRC’s participation in this annual athletic meeting.

Queen’s Royal College’s quartet of Asa Guevara, Jonathan Farinha, Edwin Phillips and Deon Lendore won gold in Event 438 – High School Boys’ 4×400 at the Penn Relays this morning.

The only non-US school in field of 11, QRC finish in 3:19.99, beating Timber Creek of Erial, New Jersey (3:21.31) into second and DuVal of Lanham, Maryland (3:22.13) in third position.

QRC’s final event, Event 462 - High School Boys’ 4×100 Small Schools, is scheduled for a 1:37 PM EST start today.

Open to high schools with male enrollment of 524 or fewer, 259 institutions took part today in heats of Event 326 - High School Boys’ 4×100 Small Schools.

Running in heat 21, QRC’s team of Levi Duncan, Johnathan Holder, Asa Gueyara and Jonathan Farinha won in a time of 42.73 seconds, beating second-placed Queen’s College of Barbados by almost a second and a half.  The team registered the ninth fastest time of the day for High School Boys’ Small Schools.

The fastest eight teams advance to the Event 461 - High School Boys’ 4×100 Championship of America, QRC just missing out by 0.15s.  The boys will represent the College and country though in the consolation final, Event 462 - High School Boys’ 4×100 Small Schools. They will face off against three Jamaican and four US-based schools on Saturday 30th April at 1:37 PM EST.

QRC.edu congratulates the boys on a fantastic performance today, noting that the Royalians’ time was also the 21st fastest of 512 schools finishing heats in the overall High School Boys’ division.  We further wish them luck in their 4×100 final tomorrow.

QRC’s schedule on the Penn Relays site indicates that we are also to take part in the Event 438 - High School Boys’ 4×400.  This event also runs off on Saturday with start at 11:35 AM EST.

Thanks to Old Boy Hayden “Tom” Noel for the Penn Relays update.

Replica QRC football shirts are now available for purchase at The QRC Store.  The shirts cost $200 each and are available in sizes M, L and XL. The QRC Store is open 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday.

Those of you who live abroad and would like to make purchases, email store[at]QRC[dot]edu and we will advise of payment options.  Please note that the cost of express (i.e. 2-day) shipping and handling using TTPOST is TT$200 per shirt for the US and Canada, and TT$230 per shirt for the UK.  An 8-day service costs TT$80 per shirt.

A limited number of shirts will be hand-delivered to Miami in the week commencing October 4th so those of you who will be in Florida during the period of Oct 7th to 12th will be able to collect directly.  The cost for these will be US$40 per shirt.

Please email store[at]QRC[dot]edu with your required quantities and sizes at your earliest to avoid disappointment.

Regards,
Ashley
on behalf of The QRC Store.

UPDATE 2010-OCT-05:

Pics of the 2010 season team jersey follow.

Courtesy Old Boy and track enthusiast Hayden “Tom” Noel, we have video of the QRC 4x400m team’s exploits in the High School 4x400m at the 2010 Adidas Grand Prix in New York City recently.  The video captures the second, third and final legs of a race against some of the top schools in the world.

According to Tom:

QRC winning the 4x400m for High Schools at the Adidas Diamond League event in New York (June 2010). Excuse the shaky start (guy sitting next to me bumping my arm) and the shouting (my Uncle being overly exuberant…understandably so [as a QRC Old Boy himself]!) Great race overall and excellent last leg from Jehue Gordon.

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KukUK63uFk

The Express’ Garth Wattley writes a fantastic article on ancient rivalries, tradition, and that which binds us together as Royalians. [Link]

Sometimes, what happens on the field is not as significant as what happens off it. That can be true even when a title is at stake. So it was last Wednesday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium at the North Zone final of Coca-Cola InterCol.

They may have had a sense of it, but I’m not at all sure that the jubilant Queen’s Royal College footballers-jumping in a tight huddle on the field after prevailing in kicks from the spot against St Mary’s College-realised just what they caused in both halves of the near-to-packed main stand.

In the blue-and-white CIC section, the pain and disappointment of losing to that team would have been keen and as annoying as being bitten behind the ear by a bloodthirsty mosquito.

In the royal blue section, though, the smiling just didn’t cease, the Scout band played on, and big men for whom school is now but a very distant experience, hugged and embraced each other.

It was quite a scene, this meeting of the tribes.

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The now infamous logo above – which was incidentally prepared well before the 2009 North Zone Intercol final – has been printed on a limited run of t-shirts.

The commemorative “juhzee” with full colour print is available in various sizes at a cost of TT$80.00 while stocks last.

Contact Old Boy Larry Olton at 686-7733 or larryolton (at) hotmail (dot) com for details.

Admin’s Note: Hmmm… Reminds me fondly of another t-shirt that we had many moons ago…