India and Scotland take home tennis titles
ZEEL Desai and Hamish Stewart captured the women and men singles titles for India and Scotland respectively as the tennis competition at the sixth Commonwealth Youth Games came to a close at the National Tennis Centre yesterday.Desai, the top seeded
Bahamas women 7th overall, men 11th and 12th in tennis
THEY may not have achieved their desired results in the final standings, but the Bahamas was able to end the beach volleyball competition with a pair of wins at the Commonwealth Youth Games.The women’s team finished seventh overall while the pair of
Bahamas strikes for the bronze in men's beach soccer
WITH regulation time on the brink of expiration and the bronze medal on the line, Bahamas team captain Phieron Wilson provided the dramatic finish to secure a place in history for the men’s beach soccer side at the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games.Chadwi
England captures seven boxing finals
IN a dominating performance, England captured all seven boxing finals they competed in yesterday at the sixth Commonwealth Youth Games at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.As the competition came to a close, England secured five men and two women titles in
JONQUEL JONES STEALS SHOW IN ALL-STAR GAME
AMONG the shining stars of the WNBA, Jonquel Jones solidified herself as one of the top talents in the league by stealing the show at the 2017 All-Star Game.The Connecticut Sun forward finished with 24 points (three three-pointers), nine rebounds and
In its best showing ever, Bahamas 9th in swimming
ENGLAND and the Republic of South Africa finished with eight gold medals each to top the charts as swimming came to a close in the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex on Saturday night.
‘Positive reviews after very successful games’
After six days of intense competition, Local Organising Committee chairman Romell Knowles was happy that the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games turned out to be the best ever.
Three more medals take Bahamas total to 10
TEAM Bahamas picked up three more bronze medals on Saturday - two from Denvaughn Whymns and Shaun Miller Jr in athletics, and one from the beach soccer boys.
Bronze medals for Bastian and Whymns
IZAAK Bastian collected his second medal – a bronze – for swimming’s third and Denvaughn Whymns claimed another bronze in athletics on Friday as the Bahamas continued their impressive showing in the sixth Commonwealth Youth Games.
Bastian, Higgs shine in 50m breast
While lightning forced a delay in the start of the swimming competition yesterday at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex, the weather conditions didn’t prevent national record breaker Lilly Higgs and Izaak Bastian from ascending the podium with Team Bahamas’ first two medals in swimming.
Adrian Curry ‘pulls through’ for bronze in 100m
FRESH off his sixth-place finish at the IAAF World Under-18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya last week, Adrian Curry got the Bahamas on the medal chart on the first day of athletics at the sixth Commonwealth Youth Games in the men’s 100 metres.
Accreditation for Games has 'been rough,' says director
WHEN they originally got started, Kirsti Johnson and her accreditation team didn’t anticipate the massive turnout of persons to be accredited for the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games.By the time the games got underway, Johnson and her crew of about 20 vo
Donte, Isabel fall short despite gallant effort
ON a day that was highlighted more by the rain delays, Bahamian tennis players Donte Armbrister and Isabel Donaldson gave it gallant efforts, but they both fell short in their men’s and women’s singles tennis matches at the National Tennis Centre yesterday.
Bahamas' beach volleyball teams relegated to non-medal rounds
A RAINY afternoon made for difficult conditions for beach volleyball and another round of losses as the trio of teams were relegated to non-medal rounds.The girls’ team lost in the quarter-finals, but one of the two Bahamian teams in the boys’ draw w
Sands Back to Support Second Annual Kappa Klassic
BACK for their second annual golf tournament, the Grand Bahama chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity (KAY) will step and stroll into the Kappa Klassic Golf Tournament on Grand Bahama on July 29. The event is one of several planned as part of efforts
