It was a two-man bat­tle in the Men’s Un­der-23 100 me­tres event be­tween Point Fortin New Jets (PFNJ) sprint­ers Nyame An­drews and Je­re­my Charles on day one of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) third prepa­ra­tion meet at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

Both run­ners clocked 11.30 sec­onds but An­drews got the edge as he was sev­en-thou­sandth of a sec­ond faster with 11.292 than Charles with 11.299 as ath­letes con­tin­ue their prepa­ra­tion for the up­com­ing Pan Amer­i­can Un­der-23 Games set to un­fold in Cali, Colom­bia.

In third place was Ariel Kerr of Cougars in a time of 11.40 while Zion Charles of Ful­fill­ing Ath­let­ic Po­ten­tial (11.55) and PFNJ’s Cyrus Charles (11.71) filled the fourth and fifth spots, re­spec­tive­ly.

Though, just this week the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) of­fi­cials an­nounced that the Pan Amer­i­can U-20 Ath­let­ic Games which was to take place in San­ti­a­go, Chile was post­poned to next year, ath­letes in the age group still came out to com­pete as most of the events at the NAAATT meet was in that cat­e­go­ry.

Bri­an­na Per­cy was among them in the low­er age-group di­vi­sion ex­celling over on the field. Per­cy of To­ba­go Fal­cons sealed the top spot in both the women’s Un­der-20 shot put and dis­cus events.

She won the shot put with her best throw, mea­sur­ing 10.62 me­tres. Her Fal­cons club­mate Alle­sha Lind­say placed sec­ond with a 10.35m-throw while Gi­an­na Paul of Con­corde was third with 8.58m.

In the dis­cus throw, Per­cy and Lind­say fin­ished one-two again with the for­mer win­ning with a 35.51m at­tempt and her club­mate sec­ond with 34.18 in the two-ath­lete event.

Eliz­a­beth Galera of Burn­ley Ath­let­ic Club was the lone com­pe­ti­tion in both events in the women’s U-23 di­vi­sion. She had a best throw of 41.68m in the dis­cus and in the shot put, 11.57m.

An­son Moses was al­so the lone com­peti­tor in the men’s de­cathlon and he tal­lied 3,403 points from five dis­ci­plines on day one. In the 100m he clocked 11.58 to earn 736 points, in the long jump he got 741 points with a 6.69m leap, then in the shot put (10.89m) he picked up 539. In the fi­nal two dis­ci­plines, the high jump (1.84m) and 400m (51.96) he added 661 and 726 points, re­spec­tive­ly.

Oth­er re­sults

U-23

Men 5,000m: 1 Stephon Gould (Rjr) 15:58.87; 2 Dar­i­an Nim­blett (Phoenix Ath­let­ics) 19:19.74

U-20

Men 100m: 1 De­on­dre John (Stal­lion) 11.22; 2 Kegel Chance (Zenith) 11.31; 2 Kester Richards (Full­fill­ingathl) 11.31

Women 100m: 1 Reneisha An­drews (Cougars) 12.53; 2 Ka­res­sa Kir­ton (Cougars) 13.03

Men 800m: 1 Troy Llanos (Fa­ti­ma) 2:01.27

Men Long Jump: 1 Moses Mc Con­ney (To­ba­go Fal­cons) 5.84m; 2 Savion Joseph (UTT Pa­tri­ots) 5.83m; 3 Nabarinie Al­leyne (To­ba­go Fal­cons) 5.01m

Women 40om Hur­dles: 1 Shanille Greene (To­ba­go Fal­cons) 1:11.41

Men 400m Hur­dles: 1 Kai Mar­tin (To­ba­go Fal­cons)1:03.26

Men Shot Put: 1 Den­nis Daniel (To­ba­go Se­lect AC) 11.45m ; 2 Tyreik Mitchell (Full­fill­ingathl) 10.30m

Men 400m: 1 Josi­ah Morales (Phoenix Ath­let­ics) 54.66: 2 Ryan Joseph (Phoenix Ath­let­ics) 55.89: 3 Josi­ah Pe­ters (Phoenix Ath­let­ics) 55.94