Brown tunes up for Carifta

TEMPE: Trinidad and Tobago’s world junior champion Darrel Brown tuned up for his Carifta Games 100-metre title defence with a fine win over Ghana’s world star Leonard Myles-Mills at the Sun Angel Classic on Saturday.

The 18-year-old Brown, currently based in Alabama, USA, topped his field in 10.24 seconds a week ahead of his Carifta Games appearance at home in Port-of-Spain. Jamaican Marvin Anderson won the other 100-metre race in the same time, 10.24 seconds. Brown, who won the 100-metre gold at the 2002 World Junior Championship in Jamaica in a meet record 10.09 seconds, outsped Myles-Mills (10.31) and American Dwight Phillips (10.34) to claim his win. Anderson won his race ahead of Trinidadian Marc Burns (10.57). Former CARIFTA Games shot put champion Candice Scott, of Trinidad and Tobago, won the women’s hammer at 66.22 metres.