Raptors, Knights in the lead

By TENAJH SWEETING

Day one of the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association (GSSSA) Track and Field Championships ended with the C.H. Reeves Raptors and C.R. Walker Knights ahead of their respective divisions.

On a day where the weather conditions proved unpredictable as the 4x100m relays brought down the showers, the Raptors dominated the other junior schools.

they display their cultural aspect.

Sonia Brown, the principal engineer from Graphite Engineering Ltd, said their company is a mechanical and engineering consultant firm. The mechanical engineer by profession said that while they had the fortune of working on many projects in the Bahamas, they jumped on board when the opportunity came to get involved in CARIFTA.

“We re all on board assisting young people,” said Brown, who indicated that her office is full of young people. “We also know and recognise that through athletics, we are half way

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By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

MARTIN ‘Pork’ Burrows added another feather to his cap when he was appointed to the COPABE (the Pan American Baseball Confederation) - WBSC Americas Baseball Umpiring Commission.

The Raptors crushed the competition for first place in day one’s overall team rankings by a margin of 139 points.

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Sharks capped off the first day of the GSSSA championships with a score of 181.

The H.O. Nash Lions separated themselves from the fourth place finishers, the D.W. Davis Royals, by a margin of four points.

In day one’s finals action for the junior division, the Raptors emerged victorious in the under 13 boys’ 1,200 metres. De’Ante Joseph put on a show for the reigning champions in the long distance race, notching a time of 4:26.41 for a first place finish.

The L.W. Young Eagles’ Kaiden Newbold followed