KINGSTON, Jamaica, (CMC )– A javelin record fell to a Bahamian for the second time at the 49th CARIFTA Games when pocket-sized left-hander Dior Rae Scott set a new mark en route to capturing gold in the girls Under-17 event here Monday.

Competing in the morning session on the final day of the championship at the National Stadium, she launched her spear 44.57 metres to top the podium.

Kenika Cassar of Trinidad and Tobago measured 42.86 for silver while Grenadian Suerena Alexander threw 42.57 to clinch bronze.

Scott trailed Cassar into the third round of throws and then attacked, racing down the runway and firing the implement past the meet record of 43.89 metres, to carve her name into CARIFTA history.

The high school basketball point guard now stands beside teammate Keyshawn Strachan who extended his World Under-20 lead to 79.89 metres to also win gold on Saturday.

Strachan’s sister Kamera was a tearful fourth with a throw of 39.86.

In other action during the morning session, the Jamaican pair of Anniska McDonald and Serena Cole triumphed in jumping events.

McDonald added to the Under-17 title she won in 2019 with a 1.75 metre clearance in the Under-20 high jump, keeping her ahead of teammate Malaika Cunningham (1.70) and Jamaica-based Grenadian Ahsharean Enoe (1.65)

Cole, meanwhile, a member of Jamaica’s World Under-20 record breaking 4×100 metre relay quartet on Sunday, fought gusty conditions by keeping her speed under control and managed to produce a winning leap of 5.89 metres in the long jump.

Kayssia Hudson, the triple jump winner, gave French Guiana their second medal of the Games with silver after leaping 5.77 while Jamaican Kay-Lagay Clarke placed third with a jump of 5.64.

With just one session of competition to go, Jamaica boast a total of 58 medals with 27 gold, 20 silver and 11 bronze.

The Bahamas have notched three gold, six silver and three bronze to be second in the medal table while the British Virgin Islands are third with three gold, one silver and one bronze.

Trinidad and Tobago lie fourth with two gold, six silver and eight bronze medals.