Two Jamaicans win High Point Trophy

SAVANETA, Aruba (CMC):

Two Jamaicans, Victoria Ho and Breanna Roman, emerged a High Point Trophy winners after the curtains came down on the Carifta Swimming Championship on Sunday night.

Ho, who helped Jamaica to one of their two gold medals Sunday night, was the Girls' 13-14 High Point Trophy winner with 58 points. She teamed up with the Kendese Nangle, Dania Banks and Raynae Hall to win the 13-14 girls' 200 freestyle relay in 1:54.02 over Barbados.

Jamaica's other gold medal on Sunday night came through Britanny Kenny (2:35.42) in the 13-14 girls' backstroke.

Breanna Roman was Jamaica's other High Point Trophy winner - competing among the Girls' 11-12 - with 50.5 points.

Jamaica finished fourth with 578 points after winning 11 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze medals.

Meanwhile, the French Antilles logged seven final day victories and emphatically retained the title on Sunday night at the Piscina Olimpico Pool.

Final day star

The French unit, comprising swimmers from Martinique, Guadeloupe, French St Martin and French Guiana, showed good all-round strength and tallied 1,107 points. The French Antilles missed out on having High Point Trophy winners in any category but finished 306 points ahead of runners-up Trinidad and Tobago (801) in the final tally.

The Bahamas placed third on 721 points with Jamaica (578) fourth, followed by the Netherlands Antilles (465) and Barbados (352).

The French Antilles collected 91 medals in all, comprising 29 gold, 38 silver and 24 bronze.

T&T picked up 24 gold, 15 silver, and 22 bronze for a total of 61, while The Bahamas collected 50 medals, 22 gold, 18 silver and 10 bronze.

Bahamian McKayla Lightbourne was the final day star performer with two record-breaking swims and was edged for the girls' 15-17 age group High Point Trophy by her teammate Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace.

Lightbourne won the 100-metre breaststroke in one minute 14.57 seconds, erasing the old mark of 1:14.77 by Jamaican Alia Atkinson from 2006. Her next triumph - and fourth record of the meet - came in the 200m backstroke which she won in 2:22.89, shattering the 1999 mark of 2:25.68 by the Cayman Islands' Shauna Powell.