VIRGIN GORDA-Julius Farley fended off Reuben Stoby's challenge, relegating his rival to second place in the Virgin Gorda Half Marathon, for the third successive year.

It was like David and Goliath. Flemming, the Elmore Stoutt High School House that has won 15 titles versus Lettsome House, the on with the least championships with eight, competing in the 47^th edition of the event on Wednesday and Thursday at the A. O. Shirley Grounds.

While Althea Scatiffe-the territory's largest school which has never lost since it was formed in 1983 dominated the A Division competition with 433 points-the real battle was among the other seven teams.

Led by Victrix Ludorum K'Zariah Harrigan, Alexandrian Maduro reclaimed the Inter Primary Schools B Division crown on Wednesday afternoon at the A. O. Shirley Grounds, winning for the first time since 2013.

Following the introduction of pre events last Wednesday for the first time in the history of the Inter Primary Schools Track and Field Championships, schools from Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke engaged in stiff competition on Wednesday and Thursday at the A. O. Shirley Grounds.

While Reuben Stoby and Rosmond Johnson were securing a repeat of their respective Mourant Ozannes College Classic Series titles, young Sam Potgieter was stealing the show with another record run to close the One Mile Division.

After coming within three seconds of Renold Brown's 13-year old Virgin Gorda College Classic Series record in his last outing, Reuben Stoby wanted to take down the mark on Saturday morning, but thought long and hard about his afternoon battle with Julius Farley for the Ceres Juices 10K Series overall crown.

Khadjja Sampson who won the 2015 OECS Swimming Championships 100m freestyle bronze medal as an eight-year old, shattered her own Mournat Ozannes College Classic Series One Mile Girls Division record on Saturday.

While Gayle Lindsay, a former 400/800m was on holiday visiting her twin sister and churning out a victory in the process and Rebuen Stoby was continuing his winning ways, the Rotary Sunrise Club was upending defending champions Rotary Club of Tortola, who hadn't lost a Service Clubs Cross Country race in the last 11 seasons of the Mourant Ozannes College Classic Series.

Including a record 78 in the One Mile Division, a near record 262 participants-just three off the mark-kicked off the 21^st Highland Spring College Classic Series at the HLSCC in Paraquita Bay on Saturday morning.

Ahead of the 21^st College Classic Series opener on Sept 17, fall road racing on Tortola resumed with Saturday's Ceres Juices 10K Series in Carrot Bay, where Reuben Stoby and Maria Mays were the respective male and female winners.

When sprinter Ashely Kelly learned from Chef de Mission Stephanie Russ Penn that she would be the flag bearer, she was totally surprised.

TORTOLA-After 30 years of participating, Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, won the territory's first medal in its history at the IAAF World Jr. Championships, when he claimed 400m Hurdles bronze on Saturday in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The BVI has been participating in IAAF World Jr. competition since 1986.

TORTOLA-Kyron McMaster won his 400m Hurdles semifinal heat on Friday evening and automatically advanced to today's final in the XVI IAAF World Jr. Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He will face the starter's gun at 1:15 p.m. today in search of a medal, running from lane seven.

British Virgin Islands 400m Hurdler Lakeisha Warner and sprinter L'T'Sha Fahie, advanced to today's semifinals of their respective events in the XVI IAAF World Jr. Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Wednesday.

TORTOLA-On the strength of its women's team, hosts British Virgin Islands landed the 2^nd OECS Track and Field Championships on Sunday night in a close battle with St. Kitts-Nevis and Grenada at the A. O. Shirley Grounds.

TORTOLA-Hosts British Virgin Islands Women's 4x100m Relay, capped a record setting Day 1 of the 2^nd OECS Championships, by breaking the seven-year old OECS mark established by St. Kitts-Nevis in 2009.

With the addition of Trinidad and Tobago's Women's 4 x 400m Relay added to the 2^nd OECS Championships line up as they seek to qualify for Rio, BVI Athletics Association officials are now expecting 185 visiting athletes and officials for the 2 day competition on Saturday and Sunday.