Kyrah Scraders ended Bermuda’s Carifta Games on a positive note at the Silver Jubilee Stadium in St Kitts yesterday.

The middle distance runner won the silver medal in the under-20 girls 800 metres, narrowly missing out on the gold which went to Shaquania Dorsett, of Bahamas, who hit the tape in 2.11.99.

Scraders covered the distance in 2.12.16 and pushed Dorsett all the way to the finish line.

“It was a tight race coming up the last straight,” Donna Watson, the Bermuda National Athletics Association president, said. “Kyrah just missed catching the girl from Bahamas.”

Lisa Buchanan, of Jamaica, took the bronze in 2.13.26.

The medal was Scraders’s second at the Games, having won the bronze in the 1,500 at the weekend.

This year was the first time the Island’s Young Female Athlete of the Year had competed in the senior girls age division and she appeared to have made a seamless transition to that level.

Bermuda claimed three medals at the Games, two fewer than at last year’s event in Martinique, where Scraders won a gold and silver.

Sakari Famous won Bermuda’s remaining medal after claiming the bronze in the under-18 girls high jump with a leap of 1.68.

Shiann Salmon, of Jamaica, won the gold with a leap of 1.73 while the silver went to Doneisha Anderson, of Bahamas, with 1.71.

Bermuda was represented by a team of twelve athletes in St Kitts, four of whom made their Carifta debuts.

The Island’s athletes qualified for several finals, with numerous season and personal bests.