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The female race at this afternoon's National Health Fund/ Holland Bamboo 6K road race, the fourth and penultimate in the Jamdammers Grand Prix Series, is expected to be hotly contested.

While Kemoy Campbell of Bellefield High is expected to continue his winning streak, the female section, which has three winners from as many races, will take centre stage.

Stacey Bell, despite two defeats, still leads the female section with 27 points, one ahead of Natoya Goule (26) and four in front of Twishawna Williams (23).

Tanice Barnett, winner of the last final, the Clarendon Crime Prevention 10K in May Pen, is not in contention as she has run only one race.

championship honours

Goule, who took the Burger King road race, which started out as a 10K but ended as 7K in Montego Bay, and Bell, who won the Ministry of Health 5K in Half-Way Tree, look the likely candidates to fight for championship honours.

Only a point separates the top two, which means that neither can afford a loss to the other racer today, as points are allotted 10 through to one for the top 10 finishers.

On the men's side, Campbell extended his lead atop the standings to the maximum 30 points at the last meeting, four more than second-place Kirk Brown (26) and seven ahead of Shawn Pitter (23), and it looks to be all over in this section, with the top three expected to finish in that order.

On the school's championships side, Holmwood boys continue to lead while Edwin Allen girls seem to have had things their way so far.

Today's race gets under way at 3 p.m. and will start at Lacovia heading westerly to New Holland football field. Over 700 entries have been received for the race, which takes on a new distance and new route.