Team Captain: “We Going For 8-Straight, Can’t Wait”

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Team Bahamas touched down just before 7pm Thursday at the Lynden Pindling International Airport after a grueling four day competition in Trinidad and Tobago.

Team Bahamas won the meet with 979 points and 74 medals.

On hand to greet the team was Prime Minister Philip Davis and acting Minister of Sports Keith Bell along with other senior government officials.

Once the team was escorted through immigration and to collect their baggage they were escorted into the airport’s courtyard to the sounds of Junkanoo.

During a short ceremony the crowd of parents, supporters, swimmers and airport staff heard from one of the team captains Ayrton Moncur.

Bahamas Aquatics Federation President Algernon Cargill encouraged corporate Bahamas once again to come onboard to support young Bahamians.

CARIFTA Track & Field

The Grand Bahama contingent of the CARIFTA Track and Field team received a heroes welcome of their own when they returned to the nation’s second city.

Keyezra Thomas was one of the standout athletes from Grand Bahama and returned with four silver medals in the u17 girls division – the 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x400m.

Shatalya Dorsett won bronze in the u20 girls 100m, silver as a member of the 4x100m, and finished two hundreths of a second off the medal podium in the 200m.

Joshua Williams won back to back CARIFTA medals in the high jump, this time with a silver in the u20 division while Aaliyah Evans won bronze after a grueling two days of competition in the heptathlon.

Aiden Kelly reached the final of the 100m and was a member of the gold medal winning u20 boys 4x400m and Zion Bradford was a member the record setting under 17 boys 4x400m and Makiah Hitchman won bronze in the u20 girls 4x400m.

Basketball

In local hoops, the Bahamas Basketball Federation has a busy weekend ahead to determine the best club teams in the country.

The national round robin gets underway tonight and runs through April 26 at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium – featuring the top teams throughout the country.

Division I will include New Providence’s Commonwealth Bank Giants, the Crusaders out of Abaco and the Dudley Boyz Saints from Grand Bahama.

In Division II the group is headed by the defending champion Have the Your Essential Store Giants out of New Providence, Harbour Island Panthers out of Eleuthera, the Net Riders from Abaco, and the North and Central Andros Defenders.

Baseball

It’s Kristian Robinson’s second full season at the aa level with the Amarillo Sod Poodles and thus far, he’s well on his way to another progression.

Through 16 games, Robinson is hitting .246 with three home runs, 10 RBI, two stolen bases and a .914 ops

Robinson has been promising, but the Sod Poodles have struggled off to a 5-11 start in the Texas league.