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Aitken reigns supreme in Rhodes

Bermuda’s Ashley Aitken continues to take the Island Games by storm with the swimmer adding a gold and two silvers to her impressive medal haul in Rhodes, Greece yesterday.

Aitken claimed gold in the women’s 50 metre butterfly with a time of 29.47 seconds and picked up a silver in the women’s 50 metre breastroke, before winning another silver in the women’s 4X50 metre medley relay.

Her latest success follows on from the two silver and bronze medals she claimed at the Nautical Club on Monday.

Eleanor Gardner was also in medal-winning form, finishing third in the women’s 800 metre freestyle.

Bermuda also picked up a silver in the men’s tennis team event — the same result as last time in Gibraltar — after losing against Guernsey with Andy Bray and Jenson Bascome both defeated in the final.

Bray went down 6-4, 6-4, with Bascome also losing 6-4, 6-4.

Elsewhere the Bermuda men’s basketball team returned to winning ways following their defeat to Menorca with a 97-56 win over Guernsey with Chris Crumpler scoring 17 points. They are currently second in Group A and take on the Cayman Islands at the Ventoklio Indoor Hall later today.

Their undefeated female counterparts continued their rich vein of form with a superb win against 2005 Island Games champions Cayman Islands 64-44.

Three wins from three games ensure they finished top of Group A and they now face the Prince Edward Island in the semi-finals tomorrow at the Ventoklio Indoor Hall.

After two rounds of action Bermuda’s golf team lead the ladies team event by five strokes over Jersey, while Laura Robinson leads the ladies individual scoreboard.

She shot a 73 to finish with a two-day score of 150, while overnight leader Olivia Jordan-Higgins is five strokes back. Yana Ballantyne shot a second round 86 and is tied fifth overall.

Both Katrin Burnie and Katyna Rabain shot 90’s today to finish tied 20th.

Bermuda now lie eighth in the Island Games table with four golds, six silvers and five bronze. Jersey still occupy top spot with 14 golds, 17 silvers and eight bronze, while host nation Rhodes drop to third behind the Faroe Islands.