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Churchill consolidate status
Sports Reporter
CHURCHILL Boys’ High School consolidated their status as one of the sporting powerhouses when they dominated at various venues over the weekend.
The Eastlea-based school had teams competing in six disciplines — athletics, basketball, soccer, chess, tennis and squash — in which they made their presence felt.
It began with a Zone Eight track and field athletics competition, which was hosted by Tafara 1 High School at the University of Zimbabwe Grounds and included Oriel (boys and girls), Roosevelt, Arundel, Danhiko, Mabvuku High, Tafara 1 High and Tafara 2 High.
Churchill emerged the overall winners with 365 points, 45 ahead of Mabvuku High, while Tafara High 1 came third with 224 points and Tafara High 2 was a distant fourth with 193 points.
Oriel Boys (170 points) and Danhiko (90 points) came fifth and sixth respectively.
Mabvuku High won the honours in the girls’ category. Churchill’s chess team also won a trophy at the annual St. John’s College Junior Chess Festival.
They beat 15 other schools for top spot following identical 3-1 wins over the hosts, Allan Wilson, St. John’s High School and Oriel Boys.
Churchill’s junior football teams also won their matches against Goromonzi with the Under-16 team winning 6-2, the Under-17 side hammering their opponents 9-0 but their first team was restrcited to a 2-2 draw.
The star of the athletics show was Churchill Form Four student, Gerald Muchabaiwa, who is the current NASH and Youth Games Under-16 high jump champion.
Muchabaiwa won the event after clearing 1, 90m. Another Churchill student — Sixth form pupil Selby Mukucha — claimed first prize in the Under-20 110m hurdles.
Mukucha, who also won gold last year at the NASH championships in Bulawayo and another gold at the National Youth Games in Marondera, came first in all his events.
Churchill won virtually all the relays, the sprints and the jumping events.
In their blip for the day, they had promising sprinter Simba Chidziva disqualified for a false start in the 200m event, the Under-20 athlete falling prey to the new rule on zero start.
Another explosive competition is on cards when all of Harare Province’s eight zones converge at the UZ for the athletics championships starting on Friday and will be used to select a team that will represent the province in Kwekwe. |
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