Guadeloupe's Cheryl Farial, left and the BVI's Lakeisha "Mimi" Warner contesting the 800m during the Leeward Islands Jr. Championships. Photo: Dean Greenaway

Meet and All Comers Records tumbled during the Leeward Islands Jr. Championships, which were staged for the first time since they were held in the BVI back in 2008. Photo: Dean Greenaway

Possibly the best new time was saved till the last as the BVI U 20 Boys 4x400m relay quartet of Tarique Moses, Shaquoy Stephens, Kyron McMaster and Khari Herbert, broke the meet record and a 20-year old All Comers Record with a new National Jr. Record time of 3 minutes, 17.00 seconds.

BVI athletes accounted for nine of the 17 records.

The 4x4 time chopped six seconds off the 3:23.01 meet record set by the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2006. It also cut the Territory’s 19-year old National Jr. time of 3:21.03 from 1993 set by the foursome of Ralston Varlack, Steve Augustine, Keith Cline and Mario Todman.

The 3:17.00 time also broke the 20-year old All-Comers Record of 3:18.1 set by the U.S. Virgin Islands team of Randy Wheatley, Irvine Mason, Ulric Jackson and Neville Hodge in 1982.

At the end of the meet, the BVI had amassed 44 medals, Antigua 32, U.S. Virgin Islands 17, Anguilla 13, Guadeloupe 3 and Trinidad and Tobago 1.

Anguilla’s Zaniel Hughes who set the U20 Boys 100m meet and All Comers record on Saturday with his 10.45 seconds run, claimed Antigua and Barbuda’s Richard Richardson’s 200m mark of 21.35 seconds from 2006, by cutting the tape at 21.26 into a -2.0 headwind. The Carifta Games 100m bronze medalist times were also Anguilla National Records and he was named the Most Outstanding Male Performer of the meet.

Lakeisha Warner earned Outstanding Female Performance of the meet.

In the 800m she matched Cheryl Farial of Guadeloupe stride for stride before powering home to victory to demolish Antigua and Barbuda’s Kenryca Francis’ 4-year old mark of 2 minutes, 20.30 seconds stopping the clock at 2:10.92. Warner’s mark lowered Samantha John’s 3-year old 2:13.68 All Comers Record and improved her National Youth Record from 2:13.80 earlier in the season.

Antigua and Barbuda’s Matthew Mitchell ran the U17 Boys 800m in 2:03.73, to eclipse St. Kitts’ Kadeem Smith’s 2006 time of 2:04.00.

On the field, Carifta Games U17 Girls Javelin Throw gold medalist Tynelle Gumbs of the BVI had a heave of 36.05m with the 500Kg spear to establish a new mark.

Her teammate Kevin Vanterpool in the same division, wiped out St. Kitts’ Chetal Evans’ 2006 mark of 46.61m, with a personal best heave of 48.18m with the 700Kg spear.

Anguilla’s DeeAnn Rodgers, the Carifta Games Heptathlon bronze medalist, scored 3813 points to establish a meet record, as the event was contested for the first time.

After individual duties, the BVI’s U17 Girls 4x400m squad of Tarika Moses, Warner, Jonel Lacey and Taylor Hill, who had already secured a 100 and 200m sprint double, shattered the meet record of 3 minutes, 56.5 established in 2006 by another BVI foursome of Bianca Dougan, Ashley Kelly, Britney Wattley and Dominique Maloney, when they raced to victory in 3:49.19. The mark was also a National Youth Record.

The first day of Events had proved equally successful with records falling like confetti at a wedding.

Eldred Henry opened the morning session by tossing the 1.75Kg U20 Boys Discus out to 44.19m on his fourth attempt, to kick start the British Virgin Islands’ medal tally. Henry was at it again in the afternoon, when he heaved the Shot Put, 14.53m.

Guadeloupe’s Sareena Carti, demolished Antigua and Barbuda’s Cherez Weste 400m mark of 57.85 seconds from 2006, when she stopped the clock at 55.31 seconds. The 2011 and 2012 Carifta Games U17 Girls bronze medalist, pulled Tarika Moses and Jonel Lacey under the old mark with 56.46 and 56.94 respectively.

Anguilla’s Zarnel Hughes, a 2012 Carifta Games U20 Boys 100m bronze medalist, erased Antigua and Barbuda’s Daniel Bailey’s nine year old championships record of 10.62 established in 2003, when he got home in 10.45 seconds into a -0.1 headwind. His mark was also an All Comers Record, eclipsing J’Maal Alexander’s , who was absent from the meet for disciplinary reasons, 10.56 from earlier this year.

The mark qualifies Hughes for the July 10-15 IAAF World Jr. Championships in Barcelona, Spain, in both the 100 and 200m.

Trevia Gumbs tossed the 3Kg ball, 13.57m to take down St. Kitts’ Rochelle Challenger’s mark of 10.33m established here in 2008.

Antigua and Barbuda’s U17 Boys 4x100m Relay quartet of Travis Campbell, Mitchell Matthew, Alex Stewart, Michaiah Williams, took down St. Kitts’ 2006 mark of 44.14, when they ran 43.97.