Thomas, Morgan bag wins as AAG season kicks off

CLEVELAND Thomas and Alika Morgan claimed the first wins of the season when they respectively captured the male and female senior category of the Berbice Cross Country race held last Sunday in New Amsterdam Berbice. 

The race, which marked the beginning of the season of events for the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), saw Thomas capturing his win in 30:31.00s, while Morgan ended her run in 48:51.00s. Coming in behind Thomas, in the men’s category, Winston Messenger covered the race’s 6-mile distance in a time 38:11.50s, while third went to Devon Barrington who had his time of 40:06.75s.
On the distaff side Malika Williams won second place behind Morgan, after her run lasted 1:03.09. Donna April copped third.
The race, which also featured a male and a female youth and junior categories saw a vibrant participation of over 50 athletes who started off from the Esplanade Road, and running around the perimeter of New Amsterdam.
Honours for the male and female junior categories went to Carl McKenzie and Andrea Fraser respectively. McKenzie clocked a time of 27:38.00s to win this category just a few seconds ahead of Jousha McKenzie who finished in 27:46.00s. Orin Prince made third place in this category.
Cassy Kirton’s 38:00.00s landed her second place behind Williams’ 33:27.00s, following in third was Cassy Torrington (42:00.00s).
In the youth category, which sought to recognise those athletes under the age of 16 years, Joshua Walcott won the boys’ race, followed by Murphy Mash and Delvin Semple, while for the girls the top three spots were taken by Candace McKenzie (34:04.00s), Marria McKenzie (40:11.00s), and Layana Charles (44:53.00s), respectively.

 

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