World Under-20 champion Tina Clayton and DeAndre Daley won the Under-20 Girls and Boys 100m titles respectively on Saturday’s opening day of the 49th CARIFTA Games at the National Stadium in Kingston.

Jamaica won just two of the blue riband events and had to settle for the minor medals in the junior finals.

Clayton ran a season’s best 11.22 seconds (0.6m/s) and held off her sister Tia who also had a season’s best 11.30 seconds for a Jamaican quinella in the senior girls’ race as Trinidad and Tobago’s Shanique Bascombe took third place with 11.57 seconds.

Daley who won the CARIFTA Trials 100m but was third at the Boys and Girls Athletics Championships last week, ran two personal best times on Saturday with 10.23 seconds (0.7m/s), joint seventh best in the world in the final.

In the semis he had run 10.28 seconds, which was under the 10.30 seconds he had run in the semis at the CARIFTA Trials.

His Jamaican teammate Bouwahjgie Nkrumie, who got off to a flying start, was second in 10.28 seconds, his life time best while Zachary Evans of The Bahamas was third in 10.45 seconds.

The impressive Adaejah Hodge won the Under-17 girls race in 11.29 seconds (0.5m/s), The Bahamas’ Shatalya Dorsett was second in 11.80 seconds with Jamaica’s Theianna Lee Terrelonge taking third with 11.87 seconds and her teammate Camoy Binger fourth in 11.92 seconds.

Dwayne Fleming of Antigua and Barbuda won the Under-17 boys race with 10.72 seconds (0.5m/s), beating Jamaica’s Gary Card- 10.75 seconds with St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Keo Davis third in 10.77 seconds.

Jamaica’s other runner, Shaquane Gordon, was fifth.

-Paul A Reid