St. Thomas runner extends streak in College Classic Series

BY DEAN GREENAWAY

A 17-year-old female sensation from St. Thomas extended her winning streak at Saturday’s Highland Spring College Classic Series on Tortola.

Ivanna Eudora Kean’s Aniecia Williams had a winning time of 12 minutes, 35.3 seconds to finish seventh overall among the 115 participants in all divisions—including beating women’s champ Darwn Peters who wasn’t at her best on race day.

The victory for the Kean junior came during a busy week for the young runner. On Thursday she won the US Virgin Islands High Schools Cross Country Championships in St. Croix, after winning last Tuesday’s championships on St. Thomas.

Kean’s coach Mario Toussaint said he brought his team to the race because they need competition. “Competition is the greatest thing of all and having to practice and not having any competition to me it’s useless,” Toussaint said. “Tortola always supports us in our track meets and in the future we plan to do the same. Whatsoever it is we’ll be over here to participate. The turnout today was great. I see 100 or more participating in the event—old and young. It was very impressive.”

Williams said the course wasn’t as difficult as she first thought. “After the first lap I got the hang of it and said ‘OK this is the course. I can do this, take it out here’ and realized where I could push it more as to where I can relax and that’s basically what I tried to do,” Williams explained. She said she tried pushing the pace in preparation for Tuesday’s Turkey Trot, her last cross country meet on St. Thomas. “I want to break 20 minutes and try to get into the 19s,” said Williams whose best is 20:35. “I figured I’ll run hard to get in shape to break the 20 minutes.”

Lettsome threw the BVI High School Cross Country division into a three way tie with their first victory and the highest score of any winner with 66 points, beating last race winner Lincoln and defending champions Carlisle. Lincoln and Carlisle each only fielded two runners and Flemming did not compete.

In a head to head duel with the BVI High School, Kean placed its five runners in the top eight to score 22 points to their counterparts who had 35. “I told all our students in the houses about this event, but when I went to pick some of them up, I didn’t find anyone,” Clifton Forbes said. “But, it was really nice having Euroda Kean coming over and participating in this event.”

Todman said his team is in a rebuilding process after losing six seniors to graduation.

“Kean always has good runners,” he noted. “Now we have Aniecia a future star. Among the sprinters we have Kian Jon Babtiste, Dereka Conor and many others who will continue.”

The Rotary Club of Road Town’s had 23 points to their Rotary Club of Tortola counterparts 37. Although short handed, Althea Scatliffe Primary School hanged on to its Primary Schools Cross Country lead with a victory over Enis Adams and Montessori, with Francis Lettsome fielding two participants. Linden and Darwn Peters—no relation—ran unchallenged to easily win the men’s and women’s divisions with times of 11 minutes, 11.29.0 and 13 minutes, 05.4 seconds respectively.

“I say thank you to everyone who came out because despite the consistent rainy weather we’ve been having this season, we still managed to have over 100 people coming out to the race and everyone was excited and went out and did their best,” Assistant race director Stephanie Russ Penn noted. “It was a great race. It was really wonderful that Eudora Kean brought up their cross country team. They came out with a vengeance and they ran very well. We look forward to them coming out and participating anytime in the future.”

The next race in the series is set for 7 a.m. on Saturday. Registration begins at 6:15 a.m. The series finale and awards ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 27.

Final results: One Mile; Boys: 1. Joush Victor, 7 Minutes, 53.8 seconds. 2. Kalik Aaron, 7:58.8. 3. Jamoll St. Rose, 8:38.2. 4. Kian Chalwell, 8:46.7. 5. Terique Wattley, 8:48.0. 6. Thaj Malone, 10:06.9. 7. Terrance France, 9:23.0. 8. Xante Chalwell, 11:25.3. 9. Saidi Prosoere, 12:30.0. 10. Kai Chalwell, 13:16.8. 11. Kadeem Chalwell, 13:22.1.

Girls: 1. Kitty Hasted, 8:09.0. 2. Yasmin Rufflesmith, 8:37.8. 3. Chemoia Hodge, 10:25.2.

Two Mile. Men: 1. Linden Peters, 11:29.0. 2. Marcus Matthews, 12:50.5. 3. Shawn Williams, 12:51.3. 4. Esan Stoutt, 12:55.8. 5. Pierce Anthony, 12:56.5. 6. Nicholas Clark, 12:58.8. 7. Earle Henry, 13:04.1. 8. Gath Hewlett, 13:17.7. 9. Rohan Amin, 14:46.0. 10. Rayshaun Mercer, 15:12.7. 11. Elvet Dore St., 15:53.9. 12. Ryan Alfred, 15:57.0. 13. Elvet Dore Jr., 16:34.1. 14. Danielo Daway, 16:44.7. 15. Micah Williams, 17:05.5. 16. Darel Christopher Jr., 17:50.6. 17. Daway Trumayne, 19:10.7. 18. Tramore Frazer, 22:06.1. 19. Paul Maduro, 23:22.7. 20. Morris Wattley Jr., 28:09.9. 21. John Lewis, 37:20.2.

Women: 1. Darwn Peters, 13:05.5. 2. Maureen Peters, 13:59.7. 3. Simone Dabreo, 15:14.6. 4. Laura Dore, 16:05.2. 5. Samantha Stewart, 17:03.2. 6. D’Anna Blyden, 17:52.8. 7. Chantel Malone, 18:05.5. 8. Roslyn Gilbert, 18:39.4. 9. Mia Bickerton, 18:51.0. 10. Zoe Bickerton, 18:52.0. 11. Stacia Gill, 18:52.9. 12. Peta-Gaye Brown, 19:40.8. 13. Denise Flanders, 20:01.2. 14. Lenette Lewis, 20:25.3. 15. D’Wanya Blyden, 20:35.3. 16. Ericca Fredericks, 20:39.1. 17. Shamora Penn, 20:59.2. 18. Monique John, 21:10.1. 19.. Ayoka Greenaway, 21:50.4. 20. Rose Parke, 21:58.0. 21. Shuwanna Stout, 25:20.5. 22. Faye Anatole, 26:00.1. 23. Marsha Mitchell, 26:01.3. 24. Nono Vanterpool, 28:05.2. 25. Mary Finley, 37:20.3.

Cross Country; Primary Schools. Teams: Althea Scatliffe, (ASPS). Enis Adams, (EAPS). Francis Lettsome (FLPS), Montessori, (MPS) 1. Deon Edwin, (ASPS), 15:20.7. 2. Cravern Andrews, (EAPS), 16:12.3. 3. Lauren Frederick, (ASPS), 18:14.5. 4. Tarik Aaron, (ASPS), 18:22.6. 5. Craig Williams,(ASPS), 18:50.6. 6. Ceorge Olliver, (EAPS), 18:52.9. 7. Holly Hasted, (MPS), 19:25.6. 8. Seanna Jack, (FLPS), 19:44.7. 9. Jessena Greenaway, (FLPS), 19:52.8. 10. Denston Johnney, (EAPS), 22:10.5. 11. Alexa Shirley, (MPS), 22:56.7. 12. Chole Rufflesmith, (MPS), 23:06.1.

Points: ASPS, 13. 2. EAPS, (3 competitors) 18. MPS, (3 competitors) 32. 3. FLPS, 17 (2 competitors).

High School: Ivanna Eudora Kean; (K); BVI High School. Teams: Lettsome (Le). Lincoln (Li). Flemming, (F). Carlisle, (C). 1. Lionel LoBlack, (K), 12:31.3. 2. Rowan Victor, (C), 12:32.3. 3. Anecia Williams (K), 12:35.3. 4. Jason Belle, (K), 12:52.3. 5. Jamiel St. Rose, (Li), 12:57.7. 6. Clement Williams, (K), 13:06.9. 7. Dion Blyden, (Li), 13:18.6. 8. Kian Jno Baptiste, (K), 13:24.5. 9. Jodiah Morrel, (K), 14:21.0. 10. Khiry Creque, (C), 15:26.0. 11. Timron Lane, (C), 15:34.0. 12. Jurmaine St.Rose, (Li), 16:11.1. 13. Dereka Conor, (K), 16:12.9. 14. Elroy Astine, (K), 16:15.6. 15. Tiffany Jennings, (Le), 21:45.0. 15. K’Nesha Greenaway, (Le), 28:16.2.

Points: 1. Lettsome, 66. 2. Lincoln, (2 competitors), 12. 3. Carlisle, 12. (2 competitors), Flemming, dnc. 1. Kean, 22. BVI High School, 35.

Service Clubs: Teams; Rotary Club of Tortola, (RT) Rotary Club of Road Town (RCR). Lions Club of Tortola (L). 1. Paul Webster, (RCR), 13:50.5. 2. Ryan Geluk, (RCR), 14:15.6. 3. Joseph Smith, (RT), 14:36.6. 4. Hubert O’Neal, (RCR), 14:50.7. 5. Steve Augustine, (RCR), 15:17.2. 6. Charles Crane, (RCR), 15:22.2. 7. Archie Christian, (RT), 16:45.2. 8. Brian Liverpool, (RT), 17:23.0. 9. Audley Maduro, (RT), 18:01.4. 10. Roxie Romney, (RT), 20:25.7. 11. Yvonne Crabbe, (RCR), 22:55.2. 12. Jp Surapaneni, (L), 24:11..2. 13. Das Surapaneni, (L), 28:10.9.

Points: 1. RCR, 23. 2. RT, 37. 3. L. 25 (2 participants).

Sporting Associations: Cycling (C). 1. Anthony Spencer, (C), 11:29.1. 2. Simon Cook, (C), 11:51.9.3. Clifton Forbes, (C), 12:28.9. 4. Jim Cullimore, (C), 16:30.7. Volleyball, dnc.

Emergency Services. Police (P) Red Cross (R). 1. Theodore John, (R), 17:05.1. 2. Quemelle Hodge (R), 18:04.3. 3. Sean Henry, (R), 19:49.4. 4. Denise Daniel, (R), 24:01.3. 5. Molya Corum, (R), 28:09.3. Police did not compete.