Arianna Hayde won the U13 cricket ball toss with a throw of 46.92 metres, one of 12 medals for the BVI as the team finished 5th in the 14th CUT Games in Jamaica. Photo: VINO

Kadeon Potter won Gold in the boys U15 shot put with his heave of 14.32 to round of theMedal haul for Team BVI. Photo: VINO

The new champions finished with 17 gold, 17 silver and seven bronze for a total of 41 medals and 459.5 points. Although Jamaica had 42 medals which comprised of 15 gold, 14 silver and 13 bronze for 422.5 points, they came up short of the title. Trinidad and Tobago came in third while the Bahamas came in 4th and the BVI 5th, with 4 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze medals.

The BVI’s point total was 201, well ahead of Antigua who came in 6th and St Kitts in 7th.

Performances by the Territory’s athletes include, the very first Gold medal of the Games which went to Izariah Frett. Frett took first place in the Girls under 9 80 metres in a time of 11.83s. Kyron Walwyn finished 4th in the Boys 80 metres in 11.66s.

Virgin Islander Kaelyash Liburd finished 5th in the Girls U9 150 metres in a time of 24.70 seconds before Sha’El Lavacia won bronze in the Boys U 9 150 metres in a time of 22.70. He would also claim gold in the Boys U9 long jump with a leap of 4.23 metres.

The Girls U9 4 x 100m Relay team suffered a disqualification, but the Boys finished in the Bronze position with a time of 59.08s. The race was won by Jamaica who set a new CUT Games record of 56.56s.

In the U9 Cricket Ball Throw, Ariyah Smith ended up 8th with a 19.8m effort whilst Stevan Emmanuel was just outside the Medals in 4th with his effort of 35.69m. This was over 14 metres behind Gold medalist Barbadian Malachi Harris’ throw of 50.32m which was also a new Games record. In the U11 age group, Dominique Moses ended up 9th (25.28m) and Shamoi Dore 5th (47.71m). Arianna Hayde (country) won the Girls U13 cricket ball toss with a throw of 46.92 metres. Jelani Norman (country) won the bronze for the boys with a 59.58m effort.

Smith finished 5th in the Girls U9 Long Jump reaching 2.88m before Lavacia’s Gold and Koen Penn’s silver in the U11 long jump (4.63) got the BVI back on the medal trail.

Moses also finished 6th in the Girls U11 Long Jump with a leap of 3.73m whilst Beyonce Defreitas won bronze in the U13 long jump with her leap of 4.74 metres. Daunte Scatliffe finished 9th in the Boys with a 5.51m effort. Z'Niah Corea matched the effort of Defreitas with a bronze of her own in the Girls U13 high jump reaching a height of 1.47metres whilst Rakeel Jack ended up 9th with a leap of 1.29m.

In the Girls U11 100m, D’Neigh Williams came home 9th in a time of 15.01s while Penn finished 6th in the Boys with a time of13.78s.

Tashira Edwards came home 9th in the U11 200 in a time of 32.10s and Penn’s 28.93s placed him 4th in the Boys. J’Quan Smith ran 46.45s in the Boys U11 300m for a 4th place finish whilst the U11 Girls 4 x 100 came home 5th in a time of 58.13s.

Hayde finished 9th in the U13 Girls 100m (13.65) as did Mikkel Bassue in the Boys with a time of 13.32s. In the Girls U13 200 Zakaria Frett took 6th in 24.79s and Norman’s time of 28.17s left him back in 10th in the Boys. In the Girls (age group) 400 Frett took 4th with a time of 1.02:94s and Jack 6th in 1.06:66s. The Girls U13 4 x 100 team were disqualified and the Boys came home 6th in 52.62s.

In the U15 Girls 100 Kala Penn came home in 13.05 for a 6th place finish and Rikkoi Brathwaite took 10th with his time of 12.90 for the Boy’s. L’Tsha Fahie ended up 6th in the 200 in 26.39 and K’Cei Moses 10th in 26.55 for the Boys. Sh’Kadia Lavachia finished 11th in the Girls U15 400 in a time of 1:03.98 and Samory Romney 10th for the Boys in 1.05:08. The Girls finished 4th in the 4 x 100 and the Boys 7th.

Dekoya Hodge threw the Javelin 23.03 m to finish 6th and Kadeon Potter 21.17m for 9th. Tahj Malone won silver in the Boy's U15 high jump with a leap of 1.77metres and finished 4th in the Long Jump with a 5.68m leap. Penn matched him in the u15 girls long jump finishing second with a distance of 5.51 metres having finished 7th in the high jump with a height of 1.43m and Kadeon Potter won gold in the boys under 15 shot put with his heave of 14.32 with Hodge 6th in the Girls having heaved a distance of 9.00m/

Destiny Samuel completed the Girls Open 800m in 2:38.20 to finish 9th, Eduardo Vargas ended up 10th in the Boys 800 with a time of 2:30.61, he also finished 8th in the 1200 and to round off the weekend Team BVI Boys finished 5th in the 800 sprint medley in a time of 1.48:20 and the Girls 7th in 1:55.82.