Tynia Gaither put together two solid races yesterday for a seventh place finish in the women’s 100 metres in the jam-packed Alexander Stadium at the Commonwealth Games.

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#By BRENT STUBBS

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#BIRMINGHAM, England — Shaking off the disappointment of her false start in the semi-finals of the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon two weeks ago, Tynia Gaither put together two solid races yesterday for a seventh place finish in the women’s 100 metres at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

#After getting her “wake up call” in the first round heats on Tuesday, Gaither powered her way to a third place finish in the last of three semi-final heats at the jam-packed Alexander Stadium in 11.17 to advance to the final with the seventh best qualifying time.

#She returned in the final a little over an hour later and had to settle for seventh in 11.23 as Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah took the gold in 10.95 with St Lucia’s Julien Alfred snatching the silver in 11.01 and Daryll Neita getting some hometown glory for England with the bronze in 11.07.

#“It was one of my better starts for this meet, so I’m happy with it,” said Gaither, who has some flashes of Eugene on her mind.

#“It’s been a little tougher mentally with the blocks, so I’m just trying to be a little cautious ever since it happened. Maybe holding it a little too long, but it will get better.”

#The 29-year-old Bahamian national record holder got a good start to go with the field at the crack of the gun. The race got away from her in the middle of the straight away, but she was able to regain her composure and stormed back to get into it. It was just a little too late.

#“I just wanted to trust my strength and to go out there through the rounds and make it happen,” Gaither said. “We’ve been training to get through the rounds.”

#And for the first time, Gaither said she was astonished by the crowd of 30,000 fans that filled the stadium in both the day and night sessions to help propel the athletes on.

#While she originally was scheduled to run just the 200m here, on her arrival Gaither made a change to enter the 100m as she will leave Birmingham today for Poland where she’s scheduled to run in a 200m and in Hungary before she comes home to compete in the NACAC Championships in Grand Bahama from August 19-21.

#“I’m going home. I can’t wait,” insisted the Grand Bahamian native. “Got to do something for Grand Bahama.”

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#BIRMINGHAM, England — With swimming joining judo, boxing and triathlon as completed disciplines at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Team Bahamas will continue action in track and field and cycling today.

#Kendrick Thompson will start the men’s decathlon, competing in the 100 metres, long jump and shot put in the morning session and the 400m to round out the first day of competition.

#Tynia Gaither and Denisha Cartwright are both listed to be back for the start of the women’s 200m heats, but Gaither is leaving for Poland and Cartwright wasn’t sure if she would compete.

#The highlight for Team Bahamas will come in the men’s long jump final when LaQuan Nairn will be the seventh of 12 jumpers on the runway. He has already predicted that he will win the gold and break the Bahamian national record.

#The two-man team of Felix Neely and Lorin Sawyer will also begin their competition in the individual time trials on the road, starting at 7:01 am EST.

#Neely will be the ninth competitor on the road and Sawyer will go 38th. There are a total of 57 competitors expected to line up to compete.

#Friday’s events

#Kendrick Thompson will complete the final day of competition in the men’s decathlon with the 110m hurdles, discus and pole vault in the morning session and the javelin and 1,500m in the evening session.

#Also, World indoor silver medallist Devynne Charlton will begin her quest for a medal in the women’s 100m hurdles with the heats to advance to the final that will take place on Sunday at 5:25 am EST.

#Kaiwan Culmer will also compete in the men’s long jump in his bid to get into Sunday’s final.

#The top 12 competitors will advance to Sunday’s final at 5:25pm EST.

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LAMAR Taylor

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BIRMINGHAM, England — Seventh place in the final of the men’s 50 metre freestyle at the Commonwealth Games is not a bad position for Lamar Taylor to take away from his swimming experience here.

As the first Bahamian male swimmer to compete in a Commonwealth final, since Jeremy Knowles got fourth in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia, Taylor gave it his best shot last night at the Sandwell Aquatic Center where he touched the wall out of lane one in 22.51 seconds.

England electrified the crowd with gold and silver from Benjamin Proud and Lewis Edward Burras in times of 21.36 and 21.68 respectively. Canada’s Joshua Edwards was the recipient of the bronze in 22.02.

Although he knew it would take a mammoth task to get on the podium, just making the final was a tremendous feat in itself for the 19-year-old Taylor, whose proud parents Gena and Lester Taylor were there to root him on in the stands.

“I felt really good about my race. I really won’t take it as a loss or anything like that,” he said. “I felt every race I swum was for the experience, even though I didn’t win or medal. These guys I’m swimming against are veterans and technically, I’m still a rookie.

“So to make it to the final was a big, big accomplishment on my part. It was a good jump in my career.

“I felt it was a really good race. There are some things I have to work on now that I am going back home, like my start, competing under the water and my pull so I can get stronger.”

Taylor said he gained a lot from his experience here and he knows he made the Bahamas proud.

He said he will go back to the drawing board and get some work done with his local coach, Travano McPhee, so that at the next Commonwealth Games, he hopes to be on the podium.

McPhee, who serves with Andy Loeitt as coach, said while they felt Taylor did an awesome job as the only member of the team to advance to a final, all of the other swimmers performed at a very high level and they should be commended aswell.

The other members were co-flag carriers during the opening ceremonies, Izaak Bastian and Lilly Higgs, brother and sister Luke-Kennedy and Zaylie-Elizabeth Thompson, Davante Carey, Katelyn Cabral and Rhanishka Gibbs, the youngest member at age 16.

“This was an awesome opportunity to be able to swim with some of the top athletes in the world,” McPhee said. “They now know what they need to do to continue to progress.”

The swim team will leave for London today where they will spend the day enjoying themselves before they head home on Friday.

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ALONZO Russell leaves the track after his heat in the 400 metres at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, yesterday.

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BIRMINGHAM, England — Despite not feeling 100 percent, Alonzo Russell was able to muster enough energy to power from behind down the home stretch to earn a lane in the semi-final of the men’s 400 metres at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

As the first Bahamian athlete to compete on day two of the track and field competition before a jam-packed 30,000 seating at the Alexander Stadium yesterday, the Grand Bahamian native emerged out of the fifth of seven heats with a third place finish in 48.41 seconds.

That enabled the 30-year-old national championship runner-up to claim 15th place overall to ensure his spot in the semi-finals on Friday when he will run out of lane nine in the last of three heats when the first two in each heat and the two fastest times will book their ticket to the final on Sunday.

“It was rough because I’m battling the flu right now,” said Russell, who is in his third appearance at the games. “I am just taking it one round at a time and hope that I can come back in two days (one to be exact) and advance again. But it’s been rough.”

Running out of lane four in his heats, Russell got left coming out of the first curve, but started to make up some ground on the back stretch. As he came off the final curve, he was in fifth place, but negotiated his comeback on the home stretch for the third place.

Zambia’s Muzala Samukonga had already built up enough real estate to surge out front as the heat winner in a personal best of 44.89 with Jamaica’s Jevaughn Powell taking the second spot in 48.14. While Samukonga had the fastest qualifying time, Powell was pegged at number eight.

With the crowd cheering loudly for everybody, Russell said he was motivated a little more in staging his comeback.

“I was kind of surprised. The race was amazing. There were a lot of people out here for a morning session, compared to the World Championships,” Russell said. “The crowd was just so much bigger. It was amazing.”

At the World Championships two weeks ago in Eugene, Oregon, Russell didn’t compete in the 400, so he’s hoping to take advantage of this opportunity here, regardless of how he feels physically.

“I hope to go for a personal best. That’s the goal,” said Russell, who has done a lifetime best of 45.25 on June 26, 2019 at the Bahamas National Championships at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium.

In analysing his environment here, including the games village at the University of Birmingham, he indicated that he couldn’t ask for anything better.

“Everything here is pretty good, so I shouldn’t have any problems accomplishing my goal,” he summed up.

If he achieves his goal and he advances again, Russell will be in the final to be contested on the final day of competition on Sunday at 5:45 am EST. He also has two silver medals from the games on his résumé, having ran on both the 4 x 400m relay teams at the Gold Coast, Australia in 2018 and in Glasgow, Scotland in 2014.

However, he’s still looking for his first final in the individual 400m at a major global competition. He is the lone competitor for the Bahamas in the one-lap race in the absence of Steven Gardiner and Shaunae Miller-Uibo.

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#BIRMINGHAM, England — With swimming joining judo, boxing and triathlon as completed disciplines at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Team Bahamas will continue action in track and field and cycling today.

#Kendrick Thompson will start the men’s decathlon, competing in the 100 metres, long jump and shot put in the morning session and the 400m to round out the first day of competition.

#Tynia Gaither and Denisha Cartwright are both listed to be back for the start of the women’s 200m heats, but Gaither is leaving for Poland and Cartwright wasn’t sure if she would compete.

#The highlight for Team Bahamas will come in the men’s long jump final when LaQuan Nairn will be the seventh of 12 jumpers on the runway. He has already predicted that he will win the gold and break the Bahamian national record.

#The two-man team of Felix Neely and Lorin Sawyer will also begin their competition in the individual time trials on the road, starting at 7:01 am EST.

#Neely will be the ninth competitor on the road and Sawyer will go 38th. There are a total of 57 competitors expected to line up to compete.

#Friday’s events

#Kendrick Thompson will complete the final day of competition in the men’s decathlon with the 110m hurdles, discus and pole vault in the morning session and the javelin and 1,500m in the evening session.

#Also, World indoor silver medallist Devynne Charlton will begin her quest for a medal in the women’s 100m hurdles with the heats to advance to the final that will take place on Sunday at 5:25 am EST.

#Kaiwan Culmer will also compete in the men’s long jump in his bid to get into Sunday’s final.

#The top 12 competitors will advance to Sunday’s final at 5:25pm EST.

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CONNECTICUT Sun forward Jonquel Jones (35) blocks a shot attempt by Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi (3) during a WNBA basketball game on Tuesday night in Uncasville, Conn. (Sean D Elliot/The Day via AP)

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Alyssa Thomas posted her second triple-double in less than two weeks, Jonquel Jones added 10 points and 10 rebounds and the Connecticut Sun beat the Phoenix Mercury 87-63 on Tuesday night.

Thomas, who recorded the franchise’s first triple-double in a win over the Minnesota Lynx on July 22, finished with 10 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.

The No. 4 pick overall in the 2014 draft, the 6-foot-2 Thomas is just the fifth WNBA player with multiple triple-doubles and joined Candace Parker (Chicago Sky) and Sabrina Ionescu (New York Liberty) as the only players with more than one this season.

Natisha Hiedeman had 16 points to lead seven Connecticut players scoring in double figures, It’s the 12th time in league history that many players have reached double-digits in the same game. Connecticut has done it three times.

Phoenix took a 13-8 lead when Shey Peddy scored with 3:44 left in the first quarter but the Mercury went scoreless for the next 7-plus minutes minutes.

Brionna Jones made a layup to open the scoring in the second quarter and give Connecticut (21- 10) the lead for good at 15-13. Hiedeman made a 3-pointer to make it 42-30 with 7:50 left in the third and the Sun led by double figures the rest of the way.

The Mercury (13-18) have lost back-to-back games to fall a game behind the Dallas Wings (13-16) for sixth in the WNBA standings with less than two weeks remaining in the regular season.

New York, the Los Angeles Sparks, the Atlanta Dream and the Minnesota Lynx (11th) are all within a game of Phoenix.

DiJonai Carrington and DeWanna Bonner scored 12 points apiece, Brionna Jones scored 11.

Skylar Diggins-Smith and Sophie Cunningham scored 15 points apiece for Phoenix and Kaela Davis added 10.

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THE Bahamas Chess Olympiad team landed in Chennai, India, on July 27 to compete in the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad.

The team attended the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad Inauguration the evening of July 28 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium.

The ceremony included stunning displays of Indian artforms and dance.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on hand to officially welcome the players and bring remarks.

Round 1 of the tournament began on July 29. The Bahamas Open Chess Olympiad Team has a total of 4.5 points going into Round 5. Round 1 the men faced the prominent team from Latvia comprised of a Grandmaster (GM), an International Master (IM) and a FIDE Master (FM).

The Bahamas team lost all games in Round 1. In Round 2 CM Kendrick Knowles was the only team member able to secure some points, managing a draw against a Sri Lankan Fide Master (FM). Round 3 the Open Team of FM Cecil Moncur, CM Kendrick Knowles, WCM Polina Karelina and Dr Kenville Lockhart won all their games against Comoros.

Unfortunately, the team fell to Ethiopia in Round 4, losing all their games.

The Bahamas Women’s Chess Olympiad team has a total of 5.5 points going into Round 5. Round 1 the Female Team was pitted against the high-ranking Chile Women’s Team which comprised of two (2) Women Candidate Masters (WCM) and two (2) Women FIDE Masters (WFM).

The Bahamas lost all Round 1 games and all Round 2 games, where they faced up against South Korea.

In Round 3, Nelissa Thomas secured the first win for the women’s team against a Women FIDE Master from Malawi. Trinity Pinder secured a draw in Round 3 against a Malawian Women Candidate Master.

Round 4 the Women’s Team had a full sweep win with Trinity Pinder, Nelissa Thomas, WCM Daijah Johnson and Jayla Cargill all winning their games against the Central African Republic. “Team Bahamas had a rough start playing against some strong nations in the first two rounds,” said Elton Joseph, treasurer of the Bahamas Chess Federation and delegate to the The Chess Olympiad.

“Players are learning valuable lessons and the juniors are really stepping up to the plate,” he said.

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 Home|Sports|‘JJ’ records double- double as Sun winsSports

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Bahamian women’s professional basketball player Jonquel ‘JJ’ Jones nabbed her eighth double-double of the season, helping the Connecticut Sun to its 21st victory this year. They trounced the Phoenix Mercury, 87-63, in Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) action on Tuesday night to begin August on a winning note.

Playing at home at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, the Sun bounced back from a close loss to the Chicago Sky on Sunday. That loss snapped a four-game winning streak for them. The Sun hold the third seed in the league standings with a 21-10 win-loss record and have clinched a playoff berth for a sixth straight season. They have five games left in the season.

Reigning league Most Valuable Player (MVP) Jones played 26 minutes in the game on Tuesday night and was able to score 10 points and pull down 10 boards. She shot 4-for-9 from the field while going 2-for-5 from three-point territory. Jones was able to dish out three assists while swatting away two shots.

Alyssa Thomas recorded her second triple-double of the season with 10 points, 10 assists and 12 rebounds.

It was an evenly matched game in the first quarter as both teams were unable to create any separation from the other. The Mercury led 13-8 at one point which was the largest of the game. That came with 3:44 left in the first quarter. Grand Bahama native Jones pulled down four rebounds in the first quarter alone but couldn’t hit any of her four shot attempts in that quarter.

The game was tied at 13 points apiece after the first 10 minutes of play.

Jones got on the scoreboard with 7:17 left in the second quarter on a finger roll layup. The Sun led 17-13 at that point. That was a part of a 6-0 scoring run by the Sun to open the second quarter. The game’s first double-digit lead came with 2:11 left in the first half with the Sun leading 28-17. At the intermission, they led 35-25.

A dominant 52-38 second half advantage put the Sun in control and they cruised to the win.

The Mercury’s Sophie Cunningham and Skylar Diggins-Smith came away with 15 points apiece in the loss.

This season, Jones stats took a dip from last season as she averages 14.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game in 28 games played. She leads her team in points and rebounds. Last season, she averaged 19.4 points, 11.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. Her shooting percentages also took a hit as she went from 51.5 percent from the field last season to 49.2 percent this year. She made 36.2 percent of her shots from deep last season, and that is down to 34.7 percent this season.

Jones’ 8.5 rebounds per game this season ranks her in the top five in the league in that category at number four.

Although her stats dipped, the Sun is still a strong playoff contender. They have been playing well after the all-star break, going 7-2 during that time.

These two teams will face each other again tonight at the same location at 7 o’ clock.

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 Home|Sports|Thomas finishes fourth; Taylor, Gaither seventh at CommonwealthSports

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One day after making history as the first Bahamian to advance to the final of the men’s 50 meters (m) freestyle at the Commonwealth Games, Lamar Taylor was in action in that final and came away with a seventh place finish at the Sandwell 

Aquatics Center in Londonberry, Smethwick, England. Taylor wrapped up the swimming portion for The Bahamas at the games on Wednesday.

Taylor powered his way to touch the wall in 22.51 seconds, placing seventh. It was a slower time than he swam in the semifinals, but a strong swim for the Bahamian regardless. Taylor posted a time of 22.45 seconds in the semis.

Donald Thomas, Shaun Miller Jr., and TyNia Gaither also competed in their respective finals yesterday, taking part in athletics at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England. Thomas was fourth in the men’s high jump, Miller was 10th in that same event, and Gaither finished seventh in the women’s 100m. Also competing on the track was Alonzo Russell, moving on to the semifinals of the men’s 400m.

In swimming, England took the gold and silver in the men’s 50m free with Benjamin Proud winning in 21.36 seconds and Lewis Burras taking the silver in 21.68 seconds. Rounding out the top three was Canada’s Joshua Edwards who swam 22.02 seconds to secure the bronze medal.

Taylor said he was proud of his performance, having made the men’s 50m free final at age 19.

“Making the final, especially in the 50m free, is exhilarating because when you look at it, at the bigger picture, it’s not a regular final. I was one of the top eight swimmers in the Commonwealth. To swim and be able to execute under pressure is a proud moment for myself. I know that everyone back home is proud of me,” Taylor said.

Taylor swam five individual races and both of the relay races at this edition of the Commonwealth Games.

“My performance at this meet overall was exceptionally well,” Taylor said. “I did not come into this meet with any time or goal set in my mind but I knew I wanted to have fun. I know this was a great opportunity for me to show out and have good placements. I just wanted to swim personal best times. I was only focused on swimming my best.”

Going forward, Taylor said he knows he has a lot to learn and he will change a lot of things in the next couple of months. After this, he will be preparing for his junior year at Henderson State University.

In athletics, Thomas barely missed out on a podium finish when he cleared 2.22m (7’ 3-1/4”) to place fourth in the men’s high jump final last night. Also jumping in that event was Shaun Miller Jr. He finished 10th overall after clearing 2.10m (6’ 10-3/4”).

Winning the high jump was New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr with a height of 2.25m (7’ 4-1/2”). Australian Brandon Starc was second as he cleared the same height as Kerr but had more knockdowns. Securing the bronze medal was India’s Tejaswin Shankar who cleared 2.22m. He prevailed on a countback over Thomas.

Gaither made the final in the women’s 100m after sprinting to a time of 11.17 seconds in the semis. In the final, Gaither placed seventh, clocking 11.23 seconds into a slight tailwind. Winning that race was two-time Olympic gold medalist in this event, Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah in 10.95 seconds. St. Lucian Julien Alfred got the silver, running 11.01 seconds. England’s Daryll Neita crossed the finish line in 11.07 seconds for the bronze medal.

Russell did enough to book a spot in the semifinals of the men’s 400m, running the one-lapper in 46.41 seconds. He placed third in heat five and ran the 15th fastest time overall. Zambia’s Muzala Samukonga ran a personal best of 44.89 seconds to win that heat.

The men’s 400m semifinals will take place tomorrow night.

Today, Gaither and Denisha Cartwright will compete in the women’s 200m, Kendrick Thompson will get his competition started in the men’s decathlon and LaQuan Nairn will compete in the men’s long jump final. In cycling, Felix Neely and Lorin Sawyer will compete in the men’s individual time trial.

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The RAB Operators (1-2) and the Johnson’s Lady Truckers (3-2) had a back and forth game on Saturday, and after seven innings it was the Operators who got a 24-23 victory for their first win of the 2022 New Providence Softball Association (NPSA) season in a game that took three hours to finish.

In the late game at the Banker’s Softball Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex, the defending women’s champions Sunshine Auto Wildcats (4-0) won 15-5 over the University of The Bahamas (UB) Mingoes (1-3).

In the first game, the Lady Truckers appeared to have the game wrapped up, going into the bottom of the seventh inning ahead 23-18. However, the Operators responded.

Errors played a major role in the high-scoring affair by both teams, and the bottom of the seventh inning was no different. The Operators’ bottom of the order was up first but they rose to the occasion, coming away with three consecutive hits before handing over the comeback to the top of the order. Leadoff batter Brendia Ferguson got out. The next two batters after Ferguson, Vanessa Sawyer and Shavone Dames, came home and tied the game at 23 runs apiece.

The Operators had a runner on third base with just one out. Tyla Miller went up to bat and got a hit that Lady Truckers’ pitcher Sari Albury fielded. Albury threw to first base and got Miller out, but veteran Melinda Bastian scored on the play and her team celebrated their first win of the season.

“The mindset in that final inning was that the game was not over until they get three outs,” Bastian said. “We were down by five runs and we needed six runs to win. It was not over until we said it was over so we just went out there and fought. My mindset on the final play was ride or die. I was the winning run and I had to go hard. It feels good to come out with our first win of the season. We did not have some key players as they are off the island for the holiday, but we hung in there. I expect us to do well this season. We have a strong team once we get all of our players out.”

Operators’ second baseman Brianna Knowles was the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the game. She went 3-for-5 with one run batted in (RBI) and scored two runs. On the Lady Truckers, Albury went 4-for-6 with two RBIs and scored three runs. She had an in-the-park home run.

In the late game, the Wildcats had a somewhat uncharacteristic start on offense, scoring just three runs in the first two innings. The Mingoes’ defense is much better this season than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted play. They got some key catches and recorded outs in those two innings.

The Mingoes had a difficult time in the batter’s box as they had just two hits. They got on the scoreboard in the third inning but the Wildcats led 6-2 heading into the top of the fourth inning. In the fourth and fifth innings, the Wildcats picked up the intensity on defense. The Mingoes scored just one run in those two innings combined. The Wildcats led 9-3 after five innings.

It was an offensive sixth inning for the Wildcats as they were able to score six runs to take a 15-3 lead heading into the bottom of the sixth inning. The Mingoes scored two more runs but it was not enough to get the game extended to seven innings.

Winning the MVP Award in this game was Wildcats’ pitcher Thela Johnson. She was impressive on both sides of the ball going 3-for-4 with a RBI and scoring three runs at the plate and striking out four batters from the mound.

Next up on the NPSA schedule is a game between the Lady Truckers and the Mingoes at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Following that game, the men return to action with the C&S Hitmen (1-1) taking on the Renegades (0-4) at 8.30 p.m.

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