Alana Reid beats Hodge in Maryland
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Alana Reid stamped her class on the girls’ 100m field at the Puma East Coast International Showcase at Prince George’s Sports Complex in Landover, Maryland on Saturday when she won the Girls’ 100m final in 11.01 seconds, beating Adaejah Hodge, the impressive United States-based British Virgin Island sprinter.
It was the first meeting between the two this season after injury during warm up forced Hodge to miss the CARIFTA Games Girls Under- 20 100m which Reid won in April in the Bahamas.
The Hydel High runner who broke the national Junior record with a sensational 10.92 seconds in the Girls’ Class 1 final at the ISSA Champs, got off to a fast start and eased away from the field to win easily.
Hodge, who won the Under -17 sprint double at the CARIFTA Games in Kingston last year and who ran a personal best 11.11 seconds in Lubbock, Texas, last weekend, was second in 11.16 seconds, while Alliah Baker of Hydel High was fourth in 11.47 seconds.
Shemonique Hazle, also of Hydel, won the Girls’ B final.
– Paul A Reid