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By Sean Star

Reporter-Herald Sports Writer

Colorado State basketball will play in the Bahamas on Aug. 5-11, the program's first out-of-country trip in five years, giving players like J.D. Paige, right, a chance to adapt to their new-found leadership roles. (Jenny Sparks / Loveland Reporter-Herald)

FORT COLLINS With a five-member incoming recruiting class, and two Division I transfers now eligible, the Colorado State basketball team has plenty of fresh faces.

There are also some familiar ones with the return of starters Prentiss Nixon, Nico Carvacho and J.D. Paige.

Mixing the old with the new, establishing roles and new team leaders in the absence of Gian Clavell and Emmanuel Omogbo, will take some time. Luckily for the Rams, they'll have a head start thanks to a trip to the Bahamas on tap Aug. 5-11.

College basketball teams are allowed one such foreign trip every four years, although it's been five since CSU last traveled abroad which was also to the Bahamas during coach Larry Eustachy's first season with the team in 2012-13.

"We have some experience back; we also have a lot of unanswered questions, so it'll be a chance to move us further ahead, particularly with this monster non-conference schedule we have," said Eustachy, who coached the Bahamian national team for one season in 2014. "It's a chance to progress, whether it's maturity-wise, whether it's getting to know your teammates, whether it's execution, whether it's understanding our terminology, whether it's understanding what the coach expects."

"It's a lot of things. It lets us start our season sooner. And it gives our guys a chance to go somewhere they'd probably never go."

The Rams will play three games against teams from the island during their week-long getaway. Perhaps just as important are the 10 extra practices the team is allowed in preparation for the trip.

The entire squad has been together for more than a month now, and if anything, the CSU coaching staff has had to pull back the reins in order to avoid burnout.

"With this Bahamas thing, we've got even more time with them, so it's been really good," associate head coach Steve Barnes said. "You want to coach them, but you also don't want them to be not wanting to be in the gym in February and March, so it's kinda, 'Are we poking too hard? Are we going enough?'

The Colorado State men's basketball team practices at the school's Indoor Practice Facility in advance of a trip to the Bahamas Aug. 5-11. (Courtesy of Colorado State Athletics)

"We're just really trying to get the right read on how much to do and how much to teach and all that kind of stuff. It's been really good for the new guys, and to give the older guys a chance to lead. We've had a good summer."

The Rams' success in 2017-18 will largely depend on their ability to fill the massive holes left by Omogbo and Clavell, a pair of first-team all-conference players a season ago who led Colorado State to a runner-up finish in both the Mountain West regular season and conference tournament.

"I think our program is maybe a year away, I really do. If you look at it, we really worked hard to not fall off the map, as I've said so many times. So I think we've got good leadership in the top end and guys are really eager to learn," Eustachy said. "Our guys are talented, but we're just inexperienced. Even though we have three starters back, they're going to have to step into a different role. It's easier when you go into San Diego State with Gian and Emmanuel on your team. Now guys like Jeremiah (Paige) are going to have to step up and take over those roles."

Not only with the Bahamas trip provide a chance for some new leadership to emerge; it will also give the coaching staff an opportunity to tinker with lineups and rotations, something they don't usually do during summer practices.

"Right now they're all kinda in the hopper together, and when we go down to the Bahamas, now you're going to start playing different combinations," Barnes said. "You don't get that really that much when you're just, 'OK, you five against you five' because they're just all together. We'll get a better feel of 'oh, that's a pretty good starting group, that's a pretty good seven, that's a pretty good eight.' That kind of thing."

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CSU basketball's trip to the Bahamas offers growing experience - Loveland Reporter-Herald

By RENALDO DORSETT

Tribune Sports Reporter

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WITH regulation time on the brink of expiration and the bronze medal on the line, Bahamas team captain Phieron Wilson provided the dramatic finish to secure a place in history for the men's beach soccer side at the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games.

Chadwick Russell's shot was blocked by keeper Jernya Oscar, but Wilson was there to corral the rebound and scored the go-ahead goal with eight seconds remaining to lift the Bahamas to a 5-4 win over Antigua and Barbuda to win the bronze medal at the national beach soccer stadium on Saturday.

Wilson and Jonathan Richardson each scored two goals for the Bahamas and goalkeeper Michael Butler added another.

"We came together as a group of brothers, we weren't training for that long, maybe three months at the most, and we expected a gold, but it still feels good to come away with a bronze with my brothers," Richardson said.

He finished the tournament second to Wilson among the team's top goal scorers.

"I just came out and I was mainly thinking about my team and my country, it happened to work out for us and we came out with a win, he said. "In beach soccer, going into the third period you have to stay mentally tough, we were able to do that and we came away with the win. Our song is 'who let the dogs out' and that's how we fought."

Antigua struck first on a goal from D'Jaire Sheppard and moments later Javorn Benjamin caught Butler out of position and beat him to the ball for a 2-0 lead with three seconds left to play in the first period.

Butler got the rally started with his goal at the 8:45 mark in the second period and Wilson scored the equaliser with 7:33 left in the period.

Tevin Lewis drew a penalty shot which was blocked by Oscar but Richardson was in the right place at the right time for the rebound and his first goal gave the Bahamas a 3-2 lead with just under four minutes left in the second.

Antigua's Jajuan Williams subbed into the game and on his first touch used a great individual effort to tie the game at 3-3 with 2:29 left and the teams took that score into the final frame.

Richardson opened the scoring in the third with his second goal to give the Bahamas a 4-3 lead with 7:44 left in regulation.

Sheppard's second goal tied the game at 4-4, setting the stage for Wilson's late match heroics.

Senior national team member Dwayne Forbes served as head coach and said his team showed great resilience throughout the tournament fighting through their early mistakes.

"The whole tournament was very tough and hats off to the boys for closing it out like this and getting the job done. Unfortunately we had to leave it up to the last minute and had to come from behind in order to win. What caused us to be playing for third place is we were beating ourselves, we made silly mistakes in a few games and in every game, there were three or four bad mistakes that almost cost us the game. Even in the bronze medal game, there were even more mistakes, but we were able to come through."

The team opened with a 5-2 loss to St. Lucia, in a game that was tied at two late in the third period before the Bahamas surrendered three quick goals. They followed with a 7-3 win in the first matchup against Antigua before a 4-2 loss to Trinidad and Tobago in the semifinal.

"It's a big win for the programme, even though it's not what we expected but it's a great start at the youth level with a Commonwealth Youth Games medal," Forbes said, "They were fantastic, this team is fit so that wasn't an issue or an issue of any team being better than us, we just made mistakes but fortunately we were still able to medal and we can only look forward to improving the overall programme in the future."

St. Lucia went on to take the gold medal with a 6-2 win over Trinidad and Tobago.

The Bahamas' women's team was less fortunate and finished in fourth place after a 3-1 loss to Turks and Caicos in the bronze medal game.

After both teams were tied with a goal apiece, Turks and Caicos took a 2-1 lead into the third period on a goal from Sydney Campbell.

Campbell added another goal, early in the third period to take a 3-1 lead at the 10-minute mark.

Team Bahamas suffered a 15-2 loss to Jamaica in their opening match. Shorthanded after that match, the team played back-to-back matches where they lost on penalties. In the first match against Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas lost 2-1 (3-3) and in the semi-final they lost to Trinidad and Tobago 2-1 (5-5).

"I guess we were a bit tired from the other days of competition but we gave it our all we came away with fourth place. I'm a bit disappointed because I know we could have given a little bit more. We trained hard for this but we have the upcoming years and we're looking forward to it. We got tired and we have limited subs because after the first game we lost a lot of people so we just had to work with what we have," team member Hannah Darville said, "The experience was good it was some of our first time national team and that's why were so confident and so ok with our performance because it was our first national team."

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Bahamas Strikes For The Bronze In Men's Beach Soccer - Bahamas Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

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Denvaughn Whymns was so disappointed in himself with his two individual bronze-medal performances that he was more than determined to get the gold for the Bahamas mixed 4 x 200 metre relay team.

On the final day of athletics at the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games, Whymns powered from third place on the anchor leg to pass the two female runners ahead of him to surge across the finish line first in a time of one minute and 31.50 seconds.

Georgina Adam anchored England to the silver in 1:31.77 and Oarabile anchored Botswana to the bronze in 1:33.51.

Team Bahamas concluded the night by adding a gold, silver and bronze medal in the three relays contested to pull the curtain down on the games just before the closing ceremony was held.

Whymns got the baton from Kayvon Stubbs, who got it from Tylar Lightbourne, while Shaquiel Higgs got the parade started before the crowd in the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium that was waiting for the Bahamian national anthem to be played for the first time in the nine sporting games.

I felt awesome. I had to come back out here and redeem myself, said Whymns, who didnt perform as well as he expected in getting the bronze in both the 110m hurdles and the long jump just after taking a few days off to recuperate last week from the trip to Nairobi, Kenya, for the IAAF World Under-18 Championships.

I wasnt happy with my performances, so I just decided to come out here and do better than I did yesterday. When I got the baton, I know I had to work because other teams were ahead of me, so I know I had to work hard to bring the baton home.

All of his teammates were just as thrilled about his comeback performance.

I feel like I executed well. We just wanted to get a clean pass and make it fast, said Stubbs on passing the baton to Whymns. He did an awesome job, so Im very proud of him.

Lightbourne took it a bit further. I felt that God was on our side and we did what we were supposed to do, she said. I just want to thank God for the opportunity. We had a very strong team and a very good anchor leg. It was very good.

While it was the first gold medal in all of the events for the Bahamas, the team joined the mixed 4 x100m and 4 x400m teams that got the bronze.

On the first leg, Higgs said he just wanted to put the team in contention and he accomplished that feat.

I just wanted to get off the first curve and maintain it and hit all my points to give my team a good position, he said.

I know I could trust these guys. But Denvaughn filled me with plenty pride to come out there and do his best.

In another best effort, the Bahamas 4 x 100m relay team of Lakelle Kinteh, Joel Johnson, Tylar Lightbourne and Adrian Curry ran 43.83 for second in their heat behind Australias winning time of 43.19.

However, in the first heat, only Jamaica ran faster in winning in 43.62 for the gold. That enabled Australia to get the silver and the Bahamas the bronze.

I felt my leg went really well. I didnt let the boys get too far away from me, Kinteh said.

I tried to keep it up the best I could. I feel good to finally get the medal. I would have liked the gold, but whatever God does is well done.

Johnson, in getting the baton on the first exchange, said it was all about getting around the track.

The execution of the exchanges was bad but , because of our natural talent, we were able to come back strong, said Johnson, who missed an opportunity to medal in the 200m after he placed sixth in the final in 21.82 earlier in the day. Its good to get the medal.

Lightbourne was just happy to be a part of the two relay-medal performances that came back-to-back.

It was good. We had some problems on our exchanges, but we got it around and we medalled, she said.

Curry, who picked up a bronze in the 100m, said it was all about finishing strong.

It feels good, he said. We had a good team and a good set up. We had some minor issues, but the exchanges were good. We just had to get the baton around and finish the race.

While Wymns walked away with three medals, a relay gold and two individual bronze, Lightbourne was the top female performer with her pair of relay medals.

Their performances, along with the silver medal from the 4 x 400m relay team of Marissa White, Corey Sherrod, Shaquiel Higgs and Gabrielle Gibson in 3:34.06 behind Australia (3:25.07), helped the Bahamas to move up on the medal chart from 20 to 17 with a total of one gold, two silver and 10 bronze for the countrys best showing ever with 13 medals.

England finished as the cream of the crop with 23 gold, 16 silver and 12 bronze for 51 medals.

Australia was second with 14 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze for 39 medals and New Zealand got third with 31 medals, inclusive of 8 gold, 14 silver and 9 bronze.

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Mixed Relay Gold: Bahamas Victorious In 4x200m - Bahamas Tribune

July 26, 2017

Team PNG to the 6th Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas, finished the five day competition from July 19-23 with the experience bringing the best out of the athletes. Though Team PNG didnt win any medals the eight athletes Ryan Maskelyne and Ebony Tkatchenko, (swimming), Matthew Stubbings and Patricia Apisah (tennis), Lawrence Lamond and Letisha Pukaikia (athletics) and Damien Aisi and Tonnie Gima (beach volleyball) made sure they did their best. England won the games with a total of 23 Gold Medals, 16 Silver and 12 Bronze, Australia came in Second with 14 Gold, 14 Silver and 11 Bronze, New Zealand came third with eight Gold, 14 Silver and nine Bronze. According to Chef de Mission Michael Henao the team was impressive and despite going against the worlds best they came out with some good performances. Ryan Maskelyne swam the 100m breaststroke it was a tough field which saw him come in just over 3 seconds (with 30.33) behind the fastest qualifier in that event (27.95). It was not enough to see him through to the finals Ryan Maskelyn swam the 200m breaststroke finals in Nassau he swam with a time of 2:20:33. Unfortunately it wasnt enough for a medal but he did put a personal best in his qualifying race finishing with a time of 2:19:72 Ebony Tkatchenko, the youngest of the contingent, has so much potential according to swim coach Greg Fasala. She competed in the 400m freestyle. Whilst she didnt medal, the coaching staff is confident the experience will fare her well in future tournaments. Lawrence Lamond ran the 200m dash. He finished 7th with a Time of 23.63. Regrettably it wasnt enough to get him into the semi finals. Letisha Pukaikia, another rising star like Lamond, ran the 200m dash and finished with a time of 26.40, but that wasnt enough to get her into the semi finals. Matthew Stubbings played Rwanda and beat them 6-3, 6-2. He went up against the no.1 ranked player (India) of the tournament, He wasnt ranked going into the tournament so having him finish in the top 8 was a remarkable effort, after going down to India. Patricia Apisah played Scotland under tough circumstances; regrettably she went down 7-6, 6-0. In the mixed doubles, Papua New Guinea (Stubbings & Apisah) went down to a well-drilled Scotland 6-0, 6-1. Given this was their first time to play together, and given they were able to hold their opponents to account for much of the match, they did well and -Iike true athletes have taken the learnings in their stride Damien Aisi and Tonnie Gima played St Lucia for 7th place and won in two straight sets (21-8 and 21-9). A grand finish to the two young men.

The top four teams in the four divisions of the Pacific MMI Port Moresby Corporate Snooker competition start the finals play-offs this week.

FC Genesis looked threatening against their University Inter FC opponents in the Port Moresby womens premier competition but could not escape their clutches only settling for a nil-all draw on Saturday.

It barely moved him into the lower reaches of the world top 10 this year, but Usain Bolts (pictured) 9.95-second 100m win at the Monaco Diamond League on Friday night signified so much more.

The top four teams in the four divisions of the Pacific MMI Port Moresby Corporate Snooker competition start the finals play-offs this week.

FC Genesis looked threatening against their University Inter FC opponents in the Port Moresby womens premier competition but could not escape their clutches only settling for a nil-all draw on Saturday.

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Sunday July 23 2017

Kenya's Emmaculate Chepkirui reacts after finishing second in the girls' 3000m final during the IAAF World Under-18 Championships at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani on July 12, 2017. PHOTO | MARTIN MUKANGU | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Kenyans Edwin Kiplagat and Emmaculate Chepkirui on Saturday night swept to victories in boys and girls 3,000m at the Commonwealth Youth Games that were due to end Sunday in Nassau, Bahamas.

Chepkirui, who is fresh from winning silver in girls 3,000m at the World Under-18 Championships that ended nine days ago in Nairobi, dominated to win in 9 minutes and 25.40 seconds.

Chepkirui, who is also a 5,000m silver medallist from the 2016 World Under-20 Championships, edged out Katrina Robinson from New Zealand to second place in 9:27.40 as Canadian Brogan MacDougall claimed bronze in 9:29.34.

Kiplagat was emphatic in his delivery, winning his race by 13 seconds in 8.23.96, beating Canadian Joshua De Souza in 8:35.25 and Francis Damasi from Tanzania in 8:37.51.

Efforts by James Mwangi in the boys 800m fell short, when he finished fifth in 1:55.45 in the final won by Briton Alex Botterill in 1:52.22 , followed by Jordan Doris from Australia and Briton Joshua Allen in 1:52.82 and 1:53.09 respectively.

However, its Mwangi, who gave Kenya its first victory on the opening day on Thursday in boys 1,500m, while Viola Chemutai, who launched the medal hunt for Kenya with silver in girls 1,500m, failed to reach girls 800m final.

Kenya entered the final day on Sunday in third place in the medal standing with three gold medals and a silver. Australia topped with four gold and six silver followed by England three gold, three silver and five bronze.

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Kiplagat, Chepkirui wing gold in Bahamas - Daily Nation

Stephen Wright, Lawrence Trott

Published Jul 24, 2017 at 8:00 am (Updated Jul 24, 2017 at 12:52 am)

Oliveira won bronze in the boys road race (Photograph by Akil Simmons)

Bermudas athletes at the Commonwealth Youth Games signed off in style, with Matthew Oliveira and Sakari Famous winning medals on the final day in Nassau, Bahamas.

Cyclist Oliveira reaffirmed his reputation as one of the islands most promising athletes after winning a second medal, claiming bronze in the boys road race yesterday.

Four days after his gold medal in the time-trial, Oliveira powered his way to another podium finish, completing the 40-mile course in a time of 1hr 32min 29sec.

The 17-year-old finished just one tenth of a second behind first-place Thomas Bostock, of Isle of Man, and recorded the same time as runner-up Samuel Culverwell, of Guernsey.

Famous also earned bronze after clearing 1.76 metres on her second attempt in the high jump. The 17-year-old failed in her effort at 1.79, but her jump was still good enough for a place on the podium.

DeVon Bean, the Bermuda athletics head coach, described Famous as a true competitor who once again rose to the big occasion.

Sakari is a gamer; she always seems to rise to the occasion when all the marbles are on the line, Bean said. Her coach Rohan Simons gave her the game plan and she executed it like the champion performer she is.

Two of her attempts at 1.79 were close as she just clipped the bar with the back of her calves.

This marks the end of the season for Sakari as she rose to the forefront and ended it with a well-deserved bronze medal.

Simons was kept abreast of Famouss progress during the event via social media.

The medal is a big deal, Im super proud, Simons said. To even get picked for the Commonwealth Youth Games you have to be the best athlete in your country, because it is only two who can go, a boy and a girl.

In the girls road race yesterday, Alyssa Rowse narrowly missed out on a second medal, having won bronze in the time-trial on Wednesday, finishing fourth in a sprint finish.

Rowse finished in the same time of 1:57:15 as race winner Rhonda Callander, of Scotland, second-place Tara Ferguson, of Isle of Man, and Madeleine Fasnacht, of Australia, who placed third.

Madelyn Moore and Jesse Washington were both in action during the eighth and final swimming session at the Games yesterday.

Both swimmers set Bermudian 17-18 age-group records in their 50 metres freestyle finals, Moore coming fifth in the girls race in 26.54 and Washington placing fifth in the boys competition in 23.79.

This was a very pleasing way for them to conclude their participation in this meet, said Richard Goodwin, of the Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association. It shows their focus and dedication to the sport of swimming. It further indicates the progress they are making and has set a new standard for their future involvement.

Washington also competed in the 100 butterfly finals at the Games, finishing eighth with a personal best of 56.42 on Friday.

Mia Black, the Bermuda chef de Mission, hailed the medal-winning heroics of Oliveira, Rowse and Famous, and believes all of Bermudas athletes in Nassau did the island proud.

Were very pleased with Matthews performances, said Black, who is also the Bermuda National Athletics Association vice-president. He and the rest of the cycling team certainly did Bermuda proud with three medals. The athletes on a whole performed very well, achieving personal-best performances and making finals.

They were all supportive of one another and I believed it helped with the performances of the team as a whole. Overall this has been a great games and the Bahamas have been gracious hosts.

Bermuda womens rugby sevens team, a late invitation to the Games after England withdrew from the competition, lost all five of their group games. They were beaten 60-0 by host nation Australia, 58-0 by Wales, 64-0 by Canada, 50-5 by Fiji and 20-0 by Trinidad and Tobago. Bermuda also lost to Trinidad in the fifth/sixth-place game 29-0 on Friday.

Black added: The rugby team arrived later than the rest of our athletes and had to hit the ground running with there being a game the morning after they arrived.

They had a great support staff and Im sure thats not the last well see of them.

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Oliveira and Famous win bronze in Bahamas - Royal Gazette

Island athletics star Alastair Chalmers is bringing home a gold medal for Guernsey from the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas.

He was celebrating with 30 metres to go as he stormed to victory in the 400m hurdles, smashing his PB in 51.22.

Cyclist Sam Culverwell missed out on a first place finish by millimetres in the road race.

He was leading with seconds to go, but took silver behind Thomas Bostock from the Isle of Man. The bronze medal was won by Bermuda's Matthew Oliveira.

At the closing ceremony, Tatiana Tostevin was given the honour of being flag bearer, due to her amazing results in the pool.

She broke many Island records and qualified for the 50M Backstroke Final, where she finished 6th at just 14 years old, the other 7 finalist were all older than her.

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The Bahamas men's beach soccer team celebrate their bronze medal. Photo - Clarence Rolle CYG

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

TEAM Bahamas picked up three more bronze medals on Saturday - two from Denvaughn Whymns and Shaun Miller Jr in athletics, and one from the beach soccer boys - to push the host country's total count to ten in its best showing ever at the Commonwealth Youth Games.

However, without any gold medals, the Bahamas dropped to number 20 in the medal standings with a total of two silver and eight bronze at the end of the first five days of nine disciple competition for boys and girls between the ages of 14-18 from 64 countries.

Going into Sundays final day of competition, England still tops the chart with 17 gold, 13 silver and 20 bronze for their total of 40. New Zealand is second with 27 (8 gold, 13 silver and six bronze), the same as Australia, who is in third with 8 gold, 11 silver and 8 gold for their total of 27.

While the swimming team didnt pick up any more hardware to go with their three medals two from Izaak Bastian and one from Lilly Higgs the athletic team celebrated as Whymns and Miller Jr joined Adrian Curry and pushed their total to four all bronze.

Judo was the first to break the ice on the opening day of competition at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium with a pair of bronzes from Karra Hanna and Mya Beneby.

Over at the Malcolm Park Beach Soccer facility on Saturday as well, the beach soccer men's team struck for their bronze with a 5-4 decision over Antigua & Barbuda. The women's team were denied the opportunity to get on the podium as they lost 12-3 to the Turks & Caicos Islands in their bronze medal game.

Trinidad & Tobago nipped Jamaica 5-4 for the women's gold medal and St Lucia stopped Trinidad & Tobago 6-2 for the men's gold.

Without much time to recuperate from their trip to the IAAF World Under-18 Championships in Nairobi, Nigeria, Whymns and Miller Jr made up for their shortfall at the biggest junior meet in the world this year.

In the biggest junior multiple games event ever staged in this part of the world, Whymns found enough energy to shake off a poor start to bolt his way into third place in the mens 110 metres hurdles.

His time of 13.88 seconds to good enough to finish behind the 1-2 punch from Englands Samuel Bennett (13.71) and Jack Sumners (13.85) for the gold and silver respectively.

I got off to a really bad start, but I just had to get back into the race and get a medal for my country, a somewhat disappointed Whymns said. This was the second time it happened to me coming to the end of my season.

I could have had two (gold) medals, one at World Youth and one here at home. It wasnt how I expected it to go, but everything happens for a reason.

Like 16-year-old Whymns, Miller Jr rebounded from a sixth place in Nairobi to ensure that he got on the podium here at home.

The 15-year-old Miller Jr did it by soaring 2.01 metres or 6-feet, 7-inches in the mens high jump final to get the bronze. Sean Sheldon Szalek, 16, of Australia took the gold with 2.11m (6-11) and Samuel Hall, 17, of Canada was the silver medalist with 2.09m (6-10 1/4).

Miller Jrs teammate Benjamin Clarke, 16, had to settle for fifth with 1.95m (6-4 3/4) as the two Bahamian rising stars gave the home crowd something to cheer about.

After falling short in Nairobi, Miller Jr said he was confident that he would pick up a medal here at home and he was delighted to take care of business.

The competition was very exciting, especially with it at home, Miller said. It was a fun experience for everybody. I had some good attempts and some bad attempts, but I have to give God thanks for winning a medal at home for my country.

The competition was very intense. Going over to Kenya and jumping 2.11m (6-11) and coming back here and jumping 2.01m (6-7) was very satisfying for me. I got a medal.

Left to complete the games on Sunday are the cycling road race at the Clifton Heritage Park site; the singles mixed doubles in tennis; boxing at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium and athletics at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium before the closing ceremonies bring the curtain down on a successful Commonwealth Youth Games.

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Three More Medals Take Bahamas Total To 10 - Bahamas Tribune

By RICARDO WELLS

Tribune Staff Reporter

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DESPITE reports of low attendance at some events associated with the Commonwealth Youth Games being hosted in the capital this week, federation representatives for the games yesterday applauded the Local Organising Committee for enduring gracefully.

Commonwealth Games Federation CEO David Grevemberg, in an interview with The Tribune, said the success of this years games should be qualified by the quality of the events put on and not tickets sold or given away.

On Thursday, the opening ceremony Tuesday night at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium was sparse, and the stadium appeared to be a quarter filled.

The beach soccer games were poorly attended on Wednesday, however, officials said there were larger crowd at indoor events like judo.

In response to the report Thursday, Mr Grevemberg said the challenges endured by the Bahamas in the lead up to and during the games have been nothing short of horrendous.

Mr Grevemberg stated: We gave this country 18 months. During that time frame the country endured a massive storm and changed governments. With all of that, facilities have been prepared and are up to competition standards, infrastructure is in place and most of all, the athletes are here, comfortable and happy.

Again, it must be noted, this was all done in an 18-month window.

In 2011, St Lucia was awarded the 2017 CYG, but backed out of the commitment in September 2015 due to concerns with fundraising and its ability to create suitable venues to stage the overall event.

The Bahamas officially submitted a bid to host the games in January 2016.

Once the bid was awarded, the Bahamas was pressed to assemble the necessary physical and immaterial infrastructure in place to host the games.

In 2015, Louise Bell was appointed as chef de mission for Samoa 2015 in April of that year, roughly four and half months prior to those games.

Derron Donaldson was named chef de mission for the Bahamas 2017 in early June, roughly a month to go before the start of this years games.

Now while the position doesnt cover the day-to-day developments or the status of the games, the appointment of someone in this role normally signifies that organisers have shifted their focus to the promotional aspects of the games.

Two weeks after this appointment, local officials erected billboards and disseminated other promotional material across the country.

On the coverage and promotion of this years games locally, Mr Grevemberg stated: There has been tremendous work to get the word out there to the audience and persuade them to come out and support, those attempts are evident.

With that noted, we recognised the Bahamas is a small island state. A large percentage of the population is at work during the week, as in the case in other countries these have been held in.

He added: But, both local and global coverage has been absolutely brilliant and we are satisfied. We expect as we head into the weekend, I think the Bahamians will come out in droves for the athletic competitions, which the country is known for, and with all the other events.

There is no need to panic over this, these are tremendous games thus far and as the days go on, you can see it on the faces of the locals and the visitors, these games are something special.

On Wednesday, Romell Knowles, managing director of the games, told The Tribune that outdoor events were not as crowded as indoor ones, something he chalked up to the intense summer heat.

Given a chance to reflect on these comments yesterday, Mr Knowles maintained outdoor events were having issues, but added indoor events like judo on the initial two days of competition and boxing as of yesterday, have made up for the low numbers for the outdoor events.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the judo events were sold out. As a matter of fact, on Wednesday we had to add more seats to Kendall Isaacs Gym. We had 300 to 500 people there throughout those two days, and we are expecting similar numbers (Thursday) and (Friday) for boxing, stated Mr Knowles.

We meet with team leaders every day, their individual reports, like our overall reports show that people are turning up at these events. Are they world-record numbers? I am not saying that, but for a country the size of the Bahamas, for events through the day, scattered across five sites, we are getting quality turnouts, he added.

The CYG is the latest international sporting event hosted here, flowing from the former Christie administrations efforts to boost sports tourism. The event was agreed to by the former government.

According to Minister of Youth Sports and Culture Michael Pintard, the event will cost the Bahamas about $7m to host.

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Nassau, Bahamas July 21, 2017 Of 164 countries, The Bahamas ranks 129th on the most recent Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) published by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and Deputy Prime Minister Peter K Turnquest has said the country continues to fall too far behind in this area of safety.

Turnquest also said the low ranking could negatively affect the financial sector and curb the expansion of the local IT industry.

The Index assesses 25 indicators and ranks countries based on commitment to and effectiveness in fighting cyber crime. The Bahamas received high scores on only two of 25 indicators. Turnquest said that the Bahamas ranked too low overall on International reports and that even though these studies can be subjective, they influence perception. He added that it was critical that the Government put protocols in place for dealing with cyber crime and that these matters would be addressed soon.

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