SPORTS SECTION E
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2025
Sprinter Carlos Brown Jr having a ‘phenomenal’ season By TENAJH SWEETING Tribune Sports Reporter tsweeting@tribunemedia.net
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ahamian sprinter Carlos Brown Jr is having a phenomenal transition from the junior to senior level in athletics. The 19-year-old exploded to a new personal and season’s best time of 10.04 seconds in the Olympic development 100m event at the 2025 Splice and Connect/ Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) CARIFTA Trials at the original Thomas A Robinson Stadium over the weekend. He spoke about how it felt to shave adequate time off his previous personal best of 10.26 seconds in the 100m event. “It still feels unreal and it
still doesn’t feel like I ran that time. The race didn’t feel that fast to be honest but I am just thankful to God that I ran the time and finished the race healthy,” Brown said. He also competed in the Olympic development 200m event and won with a winning time of 20.92 seconds. He came into that event with a seed time of 20.77 seconds. Prior to the start of the season, Brown Jr had a previous personal best of 10.30 seconds achieved at the 2024 North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) New Life Invitational hosted at home. The World Athletics under-20 (U20) finalist said
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SANDS: WE CAN EXPECT HIGH LEVEL OF COMPETITION AT CARIFTA GAMES By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WITH The Bahamas announcing a full 78-member team on the final day of registration, North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) president Mike Sands said the 2025 CARIFTA Games should be an exciting one to watch in Trinidad & Tobago over the Easter holiday weekend. NACAC, which is the umbrella that the games fall under, is looking forward to one of the most competitive junior track and field competitions in the region. “I was in Jamaica last weekend for the Boys Champs and although Jamaica had already selected their team and all of the other countries had staged their trials, I think we can expect to see a high level of competition in
SEE PAGE E7 FAST TRACK: Sprinter Carlos Brown Jr, 19, exploded to a new personal and season’s best time of 10.04 seconds in the Olympic development 100m event at the Splice and Connect/BAAA CARIFTA Trials at the original Thomas A Robinson Stadium over the weekend.
Freedom Farm wins bragging rights By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
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AS a prelude of what to expect at the Bahamas Baseball Association’s Nationals in June in Grand Bahama, Freedom Farm got the early bragging rights over the weekend at the Eleuthera Mini 12-and-under Baseball Tournament. They went into Palmetto Point, Eleuthera, and pulled off the mini tournament with a 14-4 win over the Junior Baseball League of Nassau on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Abaco Youth Association, playing in their first tournament outside of the island,
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ended up with the bronze medal as they knocked off the host Eleuthera Baseball League 16-10. Gianno Newball of Freedom Farm was named the most valuable player after he led the tournament with 10 hits, 18 runs batted in (RBI) and knocked in four home runs. Among some of the other members of Freedom Farm were Takary ‘Big Dog’ Butler, Diego Hutchinson, Bosfield ‘B3’ Butler, George Ramsaran, Elliot Clarke, Xavier ‘X’ Petit, Andrew Seymour, Reid Ingraham, Dwayne Colebrooke and Daniel Adderley.
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STORR, ALBURY ENTER NCAA TRANSFER PORTAL By TENAJH SWEETING Tribune Sports Reporter tsweeting@tribunemedia.net
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER Gianno Newball, of Freedom Farm.
BAHAMIAN collegiate basketball players Deyton Albury and AJ Storr are on the move once again. Both players entered the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) transfer portal following their early tournament exits in March. For Storr, who played last season with the Kansas Jayhawks, it is his third time entering the transfer portal in the last three years. He started his collegiate tenure with the St John’s University Red Storm
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COACH GIBSON: BOXERS FROM GRAND BAHAMA GAVE A GOOD ACCOUNT OF THEMSELVES By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WHILE it was the first time for his novice competitors to compete in an international tournament, head coach Jermaine Gibson said the four boxers from Grand Bahama gave a good account of themselves in Atlanta, Georgia.
The quartet of Amiel Bullard, 12, Dantae Anderson, 14, Jahmal Smith, 13 and Keano Cox, 20, all participated in the Sugar Bear Tournament along with four boxers from New Providence - Cayden Higgs, 12, Santao Fernander, 16, Lionel Pinder, 18 and Mario Goddard, 18. While Higgs and Fernander returned home with
THE SPORTS April CALENDAR RESURRECTION 10K RUN/5K WALK “Arise and Shine” is the theme for the Resurrection 10K run, 5K walk, bike and breakfast fellowship as they encourage persons to “push your limits, cross the finish for change.”
The event, powered by Unity Initiative, is scheduled for Easter Monday, April 21, starting at 5:45am from the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. The registration is $20 for adults and $10
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gold, all of the other boxers were awarded silver. Gibson, who serves as the vice president of the Bahamas World Boxing Federation and the chief executive officer (CEO) of the All-Out Boxing Club, travelled with coaches Valentino Knowles, president and CEO of the Aftershock Boxing and Robert Harris. “I was very, very pleased with their performances, but these guys fought for the first time overseas,” Gibson said. “We decided to divide up our team so that more kids could get the exposure. “So instead of taking the same set of guys all the time, we decided to take some of our novice fighters so that they can get the experience. They all fared well. They all came back with silver medals. They would have liked to win, but they are still getting to learn the rules.” With the full support of the parents, Gibson said the club is continuing to grow
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