CLAY­TON CLARKE

gm­sports@guardian.co.tt

The Tri­als to se­lect this coun­try's track and field con­tin­gent for the up­com­ing Com­mon­wealth Youth Games (CYG) are set for the Man­ny Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, Sat­ur­day and Sun­day.

The CYG will be host­ed in T&T from Au­gust 4-11 and the lo­cal Un­der-18 ath­letes will be look­ing to se­cure their spot on the home team. The ac­tion gets un­der­way at 9.30 am on each day.

Carif­ta Boys U-17 long jump cham­pi­on Iman­ni Matthew along with fel­low Carif­ta medal­lists Alexxe Hen­ry, Janae De Gannes, Caleb Camp­bell, Gi­ana Paul, Ker­ne­sha Shel­bourne and Pey­ton Win­ters are among those go­ing af­ter the CYG qual­i­fy­ing stan­dards.

The long and triple jump events will not be con­test­ed over the week­end as there are no jump­ing pits at the Man­ny Ramjohn Sta­di­um.

Ac­cord­ing to the sched­ule re­leased by the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion for Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAA), the lo­cal track and field gov­ern­ing body, com­pe­ti­tion in the hor­i­zon­tal jumps will be held on Tues­day (June 13) at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, Ba­co­let, for the To­ba­go com­peti­tors and at the warm-up track at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo for the Trinidad en­trants.

The Tri­als for the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (NACAC) U-18 and U-23 and the Pan Amer­i­can U-20 Cham­pi­onships are al­so on this week­end at the same venue. The NACAC U-18/U23 Cham­pi­onships are set for San Jose, Cos­ta Ri­ca on Ju­ly 21-23 and Pan Am U-20s in Mayaguez, Puer­to (Au­gust 4-6).

In more track and field news, Leah Bertrand and her Ohio State team­mates qual­i­fied for the women's 4x100m fi­nals at the NCAA Di­vi­sion One Out­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships tak­ing place in Austin, Texas, USA. In the semi­fi­nals on Thurs­day night, Ohio State was first in heat two in a school record of 42.68 sec­onds. The time was third-fastest be­hind Texas (41.55 -NCAA record) and Ken­tucky (42.30).

Ak­i­lah Lewis and Min­neso­ta were 17th in 43.78 sec­onds. Bertrand was back on the track for the women's 100m semi­fi­nals. The Sim­plex's sprint­er was 20th in 11.37.

Al­aba­ma's Cherisse Mur­ray was 19th in the women's shot put qual­i­fy­ing with 16.56m.