THE WEEKLY GLEANER | AUGUST 8 - AUGUST 14, 2022 | www.jamaica-gleaner.com | SPORTS 12 KERRICA HILL’S championship-record run highlighted a good final day for Jamaica at the World Under-20 Championships, held inside the Estadio Olimpico Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Colombia, on Saturday. The day saw the Jamaicans end second on the medal table behind the United States, though the island had the most podium finishes of the championships. Hill, running in the first event on the track, the women’s 100-metre hurdles, overcame a stumble at the start to storm to 12.77 seconds. The win was made all the sweeter as Hill looked back to find Alexis James had followed her to run a personal best 12.87 and second place. The fast Jamaican one-two finish also pulled Hungary’s Anna Tóth to a national Under-20 record 13.00. The Jamaicans weren’t to be involved again before the men’s and women’s 4x400 relays, where they picked up two silver medals behind the United States quartets. Among the women, the team of Dejanea Oakley, Abigail Campbell, Oneika McAnuff and Aliah Baker fought off the attention of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (three minutes, 31.86 seconds) to finish second in 3:31.59. The United States stayed well out of the fray, winning in 3:28.06. A few minutes later, the quartet of Shemar Palmer, Shaemar Uter, Jasauna Dennis, and Delano Kennedy repeated the feat, finishing in 3:05.72 for silver. The medal was even more of a challenge for the men, as Kennedy was forced into a brilliant anchor leg to overtake the teams of South Africa, Spain and Canada. Canada were third in a national Under-20 record 3:06.50, while the United States were comfortable winners in 3:04.47. Jamaica ended with 16 medals, six gold, seven silver, and three bronze. The United States, who ended with 15 medals, topped the table by virtue of having seven gold. Jamaica end World U20s second Jamaica’s Kerrica Hill (right) and teammate Alexis James hug in celebration of a one-two podium finish in the women’s 100-metre hurdles on the final day of the World Under-20 Championships inside the Estadio Olimpico Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Colombia yesterday. COURTESY OF WORLD ATHLETICS NEW YORK, NY: FRESH OFF their recent staging of the Jamaica Alumni Football Tournament (JAFT) in The Bronx this past June, the Griffin Football Club will stage another football festival to coincide with the Labour Day holiday weekend celebrations. Billed as the ‘Champions Tour 2022’, the football festival will feature Harbour View Football Club of Jamaica, 2022, the champions of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL), facing off against a Caribbean invitational team drawn from players in the Brooklyn competition. “The programme has something for everyone, from the juniors to the masters. Plus, it’s a holiday weekend, so it will be family-friendly with a lot of fun,” said Bobby Austin, president of Griffin Football Club and head coach at the soccer academy. Griffin Football Club has stepped forward to revive the Jamaica Alumni Football festival under the leadership of Austin and, so far, his ‘all-inclusive format’ is paying dividends, with teams already on a waiting list for next year, eager to dethrone Calabar High School Alumni. Captain Shamarie Dyer and his Stars of the East dethroned Cavalier FC and will be looking to a number of their talented youngsters to take the fight to Caribbean Stars in the feature presentation at 5 p.m., at the old Boys & Girls HS Stadium, 708 Maple Street, Brooklyn. The Caribbean All-Star Select team comprises players from the Caribbean Premier League Soccer Tournament in the tri-state and is played in Brooklyn. Notable players are Ojai Bedward, (Jamaica), Clive Murray (Grenada), Kele Sylvester (Jamaica), Kendon ‘Pimaz’ Anderson (Jamaica) and Trayon Bobb (Guyana). Head coach of Harbour View Football Club, Ludlow Bernard, reflects on the importance of this fixture: “This opportunity provides development, visibility and exposure to many of our young players. As the new five-star generals in Jamaica, we are enthusiastic about facing this International XI. Football fans in general and Harbour View fans in particular can come out to see a young Trayvone Reid, our new, sensational goalkeeper Anthony Bennett, as well as Jahshaun Anglin, Phillon Lawrence and Nicholas Hamilton. These are all up-and-coming stars for Harbour View. We look forward to the support.” Before the stars take the field to light up the evening sky around the central Brooklyn neighbourhood to decide the VMCharity Cup, fans will the treated tomatches involving the Griffin Academy U-12 v Central Brooklyn U-12 at 3 p.m., followed by the All Manning v All DaCosta Cup Masters (0-45), always a crowdpleaser with the likes of Altimont ‘Freddie’ Butler, Paul Young, Gregory Messam, Alton‘Noah’ Sterling and Howard ‘Magic Head’ Kerr in the line-up. Harbour View’s tour of the USA is being made possible by VM Group of Companies, their JPL sponsor, and, according to Devon Barrett, chief investment officer, expectations are high for this fixture. “We at VMBS use the tag line ‘transform your everyday lives’ and we have seen the transformation of Harbour View fromwhen the season started to how it ended,” he said. For information and tickets, call GriffinFootball Clubat 347.623.8193. Champs Harbour View to play Caribbean Stars in Brooklyn Shamarie Dyer, captain, Harbour View FC Ojai ‘Big 12’ Bedward, captain – Caribbean Stars CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTUzNTI=