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Simons in podium action

Trey Simons led the way as Bermuda grabbed four medals at the Carifta Games in St Lucia.Simons won silver in the under-17 men's 3000m yesterday, to go along with his bronze medal in the 1500m on Saturday. The Bermudian also set a new personal best in the 1500m in a time of 4:06.56.The silver medal capped a wonderful day for Bermuda's athletes yesterday with medal hope Aaron Evans looking well placed to grab a podium finish in the under-20 men 800m.

Trey Simons led the way as Bermuda grabbed four medals at the Carifta Games in St Lucia.

Simons won silver in the under-17 men's 3000m yesterday, to go along with his bronze medal in the 1500m on Saturday. The Bermudian also set a new personal best in the 1500m in a time of 4:06.56.

The silver medal capped a wonderful day for Bermuda's athletes yesterday with medal hope Aaron Evans looking well placed to grab a podium finish in the under-20 men 800m.

Evans won the Island's only medal at last year's games, and ran a 1.53 yesterday to finish first in his heat.

Meanwhile Darico Clarke set a personal best of 1.56 to also qualify for the under-20 men's 800m final.

And Bermuda will have two representatives in the under-17 men's 800m final with Ryan Furbert (1.57) and Shaquille Dill (1.57) both getting through their heats.

While Simons was grabbing a silver and a bronze, Ashley Berry and Alexis Bean were doing their part as well. Berry finished third in the under-20 women's 3000m yesterday, while Bean ran a personal best 4:45.90 to claim the bronze in the under-20 women's 1500m.

In Saturday's events there were also personal bests for Ashley Berry, who finished behind Bean with a time of 4:46.53, and Taylor Ashley Bean who ran a 4:51.63 in the under-17 women's 1500m.

Matthew Spring and Henry Stevens-Carty both qualified for the finals of the under-20 men's 1500m, but Spring did not finish in the finals and Stevens-Carty could only manage an eighth place finish.

The closest Bermuda got to another medal was in the under-17 men's high jump where Ryan Furbert finished fourth with a distance of 1.90metres.

Despite only claiming two podium finishes before yesterday there were some impressive performances from Bermuda's other athletes.

Jeneko Place ran a personal best 10.88 on his way to qualifying for the under-17 100metres, and then beat it to finish fifth in the final in 10.87.

And Tre Houston finished third in his under-20 men's 100 metres semi-final in a time of 10.75, but it wasn't good enough to qualify for the final.

Shawnae Brangman ran a personal best 12.23 in her semi-final heat of the under-17 women's 100 metres, and although not good enough to make the final, she did qualify for World Youth Championships.

In the under-20 women's long jump event, Jasmine Brunson finished sixth with a leap of 5.89. It could have been so much better for Brunson, who actually lept further than six metres, but then put her hand down behind her after landing.

It proved particularly costly for Brunson, who would have finished in a medal place if she had not made that mistake.