The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

HEADED into the final day of competition, Team Bahamas has positioned itself atop the point standings at the XXXII CARIFTA Swimming Championships.

The Bahamas leads the field with a combined team score of 586.5 points at the Betty Kelly-Kenning Aquatic Centre.

The defending champion, Guadeloupe, is second with 509 points, the Cayman Islands third with 469.5 points, Trinidad and Tobago fourth with 455.5 points and Barbados rounds out the top five with 409 points.

Jamaica is sixth in the standings with 374 points and last year’s host country Martinique is in the seventh spot with 225.5 points.

The Bahamas has been dominant on the boys’ side which has contributed 337 points to the total and leads the division. The girls are second in their division with 249.5 points, behind the Cayman Islands with 302.

Kevon Lockhart captured the first medal for the Bahamas on night three with a bronze in the Boys’ 13-14 200m Individual Medley in a time of 2:21.32 seconds.

Lilly Higgs captured the gold medal for the Bahamas in the Girls’ 15-17 in 2:23.11, while Albury Higgs took bronze in 2:24.93.

In the 50m Breaststroke, Zaylie-Elizabeth Thompson won silver in the Girls’ 11-12 in 36.12.

Davante Carey also added to his medal haul with bronze in the Boys’ 13-14 race in 31.54.

The Higgs sisters were back on the podium in the 50m Breast with Lilly claiming another gold medal in 32.70 and Albury with the silver in 33.96.

Izaak Bastian’s time of 29.39 won silver in the Boys’ 15-17 race.

Lockhart and Lamar Taylor finished with silver and bronze respectively in the Boys’ 13-14 100m Free. Lockhart finished second in 55.01 and Taylor was third in 55.41.

In the 200m Butterfly, Nigel Forbes won silver in the Boys’ 11-12 in 2:28.59, while Ian Pinder took gold in the Boys 13-14 in 2:17.57. Albury Higgs picked up her third individual medal of the night with bronze in her division in 2:31.85.

The 800m Free Relay produced two medals for team Bahamas. In the Boys 13-14, the team of Taylor, Carey, Lockhart and Trent Albury won silver in 8:37.09 secs. In the Girls 15-17 it was the Higgs sisters, Virginia Stamp and Brianna Nesbitt swimming to a bronze medal finish in 9:03.42 secs.

Tonight’s final session will be highlighted by the 400m Free, 50m Free, 100m Breast, 200m Back and 200m Free Relay.