Prempeh College failed in their bid to retain the trophy last week Friday at
the Obuasi Len Clay Sports Stadium. Prempeh, winner of last
year's Super-Zonlas athletic competition had a tough time retaining the
trophy as some of the athletes were injured while others were indisposed.
The first day of the competition had Prempeh trailing by 4 pints behind
Owass and that was bad news. The boys who had thronged the Obuasi township
to support their athletes came back to school with moody faces. Though the
athletes cheered them up on the morning of Friday, they had their
reservations knowing very well that some ace athletes were injured and so
could not do 100% battle for them.
Form one sensation Frank Goloe has filled his brother's shoes perfectly.
New sensation Frank Goloe has fit so well into the shoes of his brother, Eric Goloe.
Yet he
had trouble with his leg on the first day. His patriotism knew no bounds as
he stepped onto the field on Friday to continue the race for the college.
Prempeh College's Joseph Trezeguet came 3rd in the 5000m race on the first
day while Elijah Nyarko came 7th in the same event. In the 1500m race,
Elijah took the 6th position with Trezeguet coming 3rd.
Though this
performance placed some fears in the Prempeh guys on the first day, Frank
Goloe won the 100m heat as well as the 200m thus qualifying for the finals.
It set the whole place ablaze as the boys had something to cheer about on
the day.
Patrick Yeboah joined Goloe to the final of the 400m race which was the last
event of the day. Gole came 2nd while Patrick took the 4th position.
Prempeh
had no one to take part in the 110m hurdles as the athletes were injured.
Not taking part in the hurdles meants we had smashed some valuable points.
Seth Kwame came 1st in the discus while Amiah David placed 2nd in the
javelin to lift the hopes of the Prempeh supporters. Livingston Koduah came
first in the high jump and long jump categories but no one participated in
the triple jump as Prempeh's athlete was convalescent. Another drop of
pints over there!
In the 800m, Eric Nyarko came 3rd with Prince Asubonteng taking the 2nd
position. Frank Goloe, who was suffering from food poisoning,
tried to redeem the image of Prempeh but injury did
not allow him as he placed 2nd in a keenly contested 200m and then third in
the 100m.
Prempeh had a terrible start in the 4 by 100m race and therefore
placed 6th when Solomon Konadu dropped the baton. That notwithstanding, the
college bounced back in the 4 by 400m race coming second as Frank Gole, Eric
Nyarko, Prince Asubonteng and Patrick Yeboah did their best for the college.
In the end, Prempeh came second with 108 points while Opoku Ware came first
with 118 points. It was no disgrace for the Prempeh guys in the stadium as
they did not compete in 2 competitions and had some of their athletes sick
and injured. www.premeph.org congratulates the boys.
