Over 50 swimmers have so far competed with races ranging in distance from a quarter of a mile to one mile. Sunday's swim will be over a mile and will determine a number of age group champions.

Among the women, the 16-29 group has six potential winners -- Claire Mancell, Zoe Roberts, Kris Cash, Sara Mancell, Tamika Williams and Jessica Fulton.

However, the winner on Sunday may not be the overall champion as points from previous races could still put Mancell, Williams or Fulton ahead of the others.

In the men's competition, the under-16 age group will be decided by whoever comes over the line first between Jonathan Herring, Nuri Lathan and Graham Smith. And in the 16-19, the overall winner should come from Beau Franklin, Ronald Cowan or Mike Cash.

The 30-39 category sees a head-to-head battle between David Cash and Trevor Lloyd who have finished within seconds of each other in the previous three races. Two age groups had clear winners with Sarah Manuel and Duncan Newby having already wrapped up their respective age-groups, 30-39 and 40-49.

LADIES HOCKEY HOC League champions Bluebirds suffered a surprise defeat when they went down 3-1 to Police Orioles in Bermuda Ladies Hockey Association action at Nationals on the weekend.

Orioles saved one of their best performances for the last game of the season, Liz Adderley hammering two goals and Deneka Bean adding the third. The other A Division match produced 11 goals as Canaries thumped Swifts 7-4.

In the B Division, Orioles beat Bluebirds 2-1, Sarah Vallis and Deneka Bean netting for the winners after Karen Turner had scored for Bluebirds. And Canaries, with two goals from Ali Cameron and one by Kerry Quigley, defeated Swifts 3-1.

ATHLETICS ATH Rain forced the postponement yesterday of the opening events in the final inter-school sports meet at National Stadium.

The meet will now begin today with the field events while tomorrow will see action on the track.

It was incorrectly reported yesterday that Patrina Swan of Berkeley was the reigning Bank of Butterfield Mile champion. Jennifer Young, in fact, won the January race for secondary schoolgirls with Swan, the 1996 winner, placing second.