Shakera Hall wrapped up a great weekend at the 12th Austin Sealy Classic with a second personal best performance, this time in the sprint hurdles, last Sunday evening at the National Stadium.
Hall, a bronze medallist in the Under-20 Girls’ 100 metre hurdles at the CARIFTA Games, stepped down to the Under-18 height to win in 13.85 seconds, almost two clear seconds on the field.
It followed a personal best 11.97 in the 100 metres for the Elite Distance athlete and was also well under the 14.30 for the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Juniors in El Salvador.
Also meeting the CAC standard was Levi Cadogan of Quantum Leap, who did the sprint double, racing to victory in the men’s 200 metres in a personal best 21.46 seconds.
lt looked like a blanket finish as they went up the straightaway, before Cadogan nosed ahead of Pacers’ Christopher Davis (21.59) while HPP’s Mario Burke, who was second in the 100, was third in 21.83.
Sharon Larrier won the women’s race in 24.09 from Hall (24.39).
Also qualifying for CAC was Rising Stars’ Jerrad Mason, who won the men’s 800 metres in 1 minute 53.82 seconds.
Despite beating Freedom Striders’ Cindy Forde (2:24.40) by a clear 50 metres, Parkinson’s Sonia Gaskin was 0.49 seconds off the CAC qualifying time, clocking 2:10.99.
The Rising Stars duo of Tianna Bowen and Rivaldo Leacock won the Under-15 600 metres and 800 metres, respectively, in 1:39.88 and 2:02.20.
Sprint Tech’s Taylor Hill was among four others who did the sprint double when she crossed the line in 25.44 seconds in the Under-17 Girls’ 200m. With Kyle Farrell, a non-starter, Rising Stars’ Tre Adamson was the winner of the boys’ race in 23.10.
Also doing the double were Sprint Tech’s Tashira Edwards (30.14) and Shem Williams (28.15) of Rising Stars in the Under-11 division, and Kentone Browne of Pacers with 23.20 among the Under-15 boys. Sprint Tech’s Judine Lacey (25.98) won the girls’ race to deny Rising Stars’ Timeka Jordan (26.08) the double.
Rosette Hoyte and Antonio Hoyte-Small of Rising Stars won the Under-13 races in 26.38 and 25.98 seconds, respectively.
Among the younger ones, Sprint Tech’s Ariyah Smith won the 150m dash in 24.67 seconds and Carlon Tuckett of Rising Stars took the boys’ race in 22.21, more than a second on the field.
Parkinson’s Shavonte Bradshaw won the heptathlon with 4 373 points.
In the field events, Shem Forde of HPP won the Under-15 Boys’ long jump with a best of 5.78 metres, while BC Trac’s Shanikah Haynes won the Under-17 Girls’ shot put and javelin with 10.65 and 31.76 metres, respectively.
