AFTER finishing third in the swimming segment on Saturday, Guyana amassed 333 points in the athletics segment of the Inter-Guiana Games to end in winners’ row when the competition concluded at the Guyana Defence Force ground, Camp Ayanganna, yesterday.

With a 38-point lead Guyana overthrew the Suriname team which finished second with 295.
It was wins like the one manufactured by Tevin Garraway in the Boys’ 200m, that kept Guyana in the lead yesterday, after taking the lead on day one last Saturday.
Despite improving their performance in the field events, Suriname could not get past Guyana.
Assembling 200 points at the end of day one through massive wins, from Kevin Abbensetts, Jason Yaw and Jevina Sampson, the Guyana team continued in the same stride throughout the day’s proceedings, where they sought to outshine their Surinamese counterpart.
Abbensetts, who had won Saturday’s Boys’ 200m by edging past Garraway and Suriname’s Romario Pana, could not dig deep enough to once again overthrow Garraway.
The defending champion in the event, Abbensetts, finished just milliseconds behind Garraway after his 21.50-seconds finish was not enough to overpower the 21.40 seconds recorded by Garraway.
Pana, who finished second in the 200m on Saturday, had to settle for third yesterday after clocking 22.10 seconds in the race.
In another upset of the day, CAC Juniors bronze medallist Jevina Sampson, who on Saturday fought hard against Avon Samuels for the Girls’ 400m title, found herself out-classed by Samuels yesterday in the Girls’ 200m.
Sampson clocked only 25.20 seconds against the 24.90 seconds sprinted by Samuels, while it was another third for Suriname as Sabrina Menson clocked 26.40 seconds.
Ornesto Thomas was out to defend his title in the Boys’ 800m and did so after he ran a time of 2:00.70s, and left Uracio Seedorf in second place after the Surinamese took 2:01.50s.
The Girls’ 1500m went to Guyana’s Andrea Foster (2:21.80s), while triple CARIFTA Games gold medallist Cassey George dominated in the Girls’ 3 000m where she needed 10.58.50s to finish the race.
Second place in the 3000m went to Claudrice McKoy who ran 11.19.30s, while Esmeralda Amania was third in 12:07.60s.
The tri-nation Games, which involved competition in swimming and basketball against teams from Suriname and French Guiana, came to an end yesterday, marked by a closing ceremony held at the Cliff Anderson Sports hall last evening.
Guyana had finished third in the swimming segment after garnering 16 medals, including four gold.