Two College Classic Series records fall in penultimate race

BY DEAN GREENAWAY

Ahead of this weekend’s season ender, two records fell in Saturday’s fourth Highland Spring College Classic Series race, which returned to its original course, following successive races on an alternate course because of the recent rains.

Defending women’s champion Darwn Peters lowered her course record of 13 minutes, 48.4 seconds set six weeks ago on October 9, to 13:42.1 seconds, while the BVI High School’s Rasheed Richards of Carlisle House lowered his Cross Country mark of 12:19.2 on from October 27, 2002, to 12:12.4.

“We had some records broken today and we were able to go back to our original course, thanks to Public Works Department for improving it from the conditions it has been in because of all the rains,” noted assistant race director Stephanie Russ Penn. “As far as today’s race goes, the numbers were small, but, the people who have been consistently coming showed up and we’re really thankful. It was a good race and I’m looking forward to an exciting finale on Nov. 27.”

Peters, who wasn’t at her best in her last outing, said the first mile was tough. “I won’t say I wasn’t fit, but I thing I went up to the mile mark kind of slow, but once I rounded the cone, that’s the point where I picked up and kept the pace going from there,” she explained.

Montessori School’s Kitty Hasted tightened her grip on the girls’ one mile division leading a girls’ sweep in the division with a time of 8 minutes 00.2 seconds. Lettsome House showed that consistency pays by recording its second successive victory in the BVI High School Cross Country division with one race left. Defending champions Carlisle and Lincoln Houses have each recorded a victory.

As she has been stressing prior to the series, Penn said consistency will play a factor when awards are handed out at the end of the series. “I’ve started doing the standings and I have a fair idea of each category in terms of who are in the running for getting the overall medal as well as the top medal for each age group. There’s a lot of categories that at the end of the day, the outcome—the person who wins—it will come down to consistency. For some people, today could well be the deciding factor whether they become the division winner for that category because they have been consistent.”

An awards ceremony will be held after Saturday’s final race, which begins at 7 a.m. Registration convenes at 6:15 a.m.

Final results: One Mile; Boys: 1. Kian Chalwell, 9:34.0. 2. Xante Chalwell, 10:13.7. 3. Matthew Lennox, 10:27.9. 4. Kadeem Chalwell, 16:07.0. 5. Kai Chalwell, 16:08.5.

Girls: 1. Kitty Hasted, 8:00.2. 2. Yasmin Rufflesmith, 8:32.3. 3. Chemoia Hodge, 9:06.2.

Two Mile. Men: 1. Linden Peters, 12:09.3. 2. Marcus Matthews, 13:11.9. 3. Shawn Williams, 13:30.0. 4. Esan Stoutt, 13:30.5. 5. Nicholas Clark, 13:32.5. 6. Earle Henry, 13:37.0. 7. Gath Hewlett, 13:53.4. 8. Nicols Charles, 14:51.3. 9. Darel Christopher Jr., 16:13.8. 10. Elvet Dore Sr., 16:20.6. 11. Micah Williams, 16:22.5. 12. Kesron Agard, 16:27.1. 13. Howard Moore, 16:32.5. 14. Elvet Dore Jr., 17:34.9. 15. Refugio Rochin, 19:17.6. 16. Tramore Frazer, 20:39.0. 17. Nigel Rhymer, 22:52.5. 18. Nicholas Laurac, 26:05.4. 20. Joseph Szabo, 34:15.2.

Women: 1. Darwn Peters, 13:42.1. (New Record. Old Record. Darwn Peters, 13 Minutes, 48.4 seconds, October 9, 2004. 2. Maureen Peters, 14:55.7. 3. Kathrine Bull, 15:45.9. 4. Laura Dore, 15:53.4. 5. Dominique Maloney, 16:00.5. 6. Natasha Chalwell, 17:36.5. 7. D’Anna Blyden, 18:22.4. 8. Zoe Bickerton, 18:47.5. 9. Mia Bickerton, 19:24.3. 10. Ericca Fredericks, 20:40.6. 11. D’Wanya Blyden, 20:52.5. 12. Stacia Gill, 21:00.2. 13. Monique John, 21:07.8. 14. Dianne O’Neal, 21:21.0. 15. Marilyn Nibbs, 21:51.6. 16. Samantha Stoute, 22:35.5. 17. Ayoka Greenaway, 22:40.4. 18. Janet Cupid, 23:29.4. 19. Afiya Turnbull, 23:31.2. 20. Rose Parke, 24:06.0. 21. Shuwanna Stout, 24:28.3. 22. Janetter Matthew, 26:10.1. 23. Arlene Szabo, 27:03.3. 24. Khadija Francis, 28:43.1. 25. Shirmel Richards, 29:27.2. 26. Renee Rawlins, 29:47.3.

Cross Country; Primary Schools. Teams: Althea Scatliffe, (ASPS). Enis Adams, (EAPS). Francis Lettsome (FLPS), Montessori, (MPS) 1. Lauren Frederick, (ASPS), 18:35.0. 2. Calico Romney, (ASPS), 18:42.9. 3. Alexa Shirley (MPS), 23:15.6. 4. Holly Hasted, (MPS), 23:27.2. 5. Chole Rufflesmith, (MPS), 24:32.7.

Points: 1. MPS, 12. 2. ASPS, (2 competitors). 2. EAPS and FLPS did not compete.

BVI High School. Teams: Lettsome (Le). Lincoln (Li). Flemming, (F). Carlisle, (C). 1. Rasheed Richards, (C), 12:12.4. (New Record. Old Record, Rasheed Richards, 12:19.2. October 27. 2002. 2. Dion Blyden, (Li), 14:49.0. 3. Timron Layne, (Le), 15:20.8. 4. Rayshaun Mercer (F), 15:52.0. 5. Deon Edwin, (C), 15:54.2. 6. Khiry Creque, (C), 16:13.0. 7. Camroy Peters, (Le), 19:30.4. 8. Camron Peters, (F), 19:48.8. 9. Tiffany Jennings, (Le), 22:33.7. 10. K’Nesha Greenaway, (Le), 27:24.2.

Points: 1. Lettsome, 29. 2. Carlisle, (3 competitors) 12. 3. Flemming, (2 competitors) 12. 4. Lincoln, (1 competitor) 2.

Service Clubs: Teams; Rotary Club of Tortola, (RT) Rotary Club of Road Town (RCR). Lions Club of Tortola (L). 1. Chris Ghiorse, (RT), 14:49.0. 2. Joseph Smith, (RT), 15:08.1. 3. Ryan Geluk, (RCR), 15:21.2. 4. Hubert O’Neal, (RCR), 15:33.7. 5. Steve Augustine, (RCR), 16:04.4. 6. Audley Maduro, (RT), 17:26.7. 7. Brian Liverpool, (RT), 17:32.2. 8. Archie Christian, (RT), 17:56.0. 9. Yvonne Crabbe, (RCR), 22:19.9.

Points: 1. RCR, 21. 2. RT, 27.

Sporting Associations: Cycling (C). 1. Jim Cullimore, (C), 16:44.3. Volleyball, dnc.

Emergency Services. Police (P) Red Cross (R). 1. Quemelle Hodge (R), 17:13.7. 2. Denise Daniel, (R), 24:49.7. 2. Molya Corum, (R), 28:43.0. Police did not compete.