By Anthony Foster in Leonora, West Coast of Demerara, Guyana
Guyanese rising stars, Brenessa Thompson and Kadecia Baird, were the standouts of Saturday's inaugural Aliann Pompey Invitational.
Thompson, who is just a month shy of her 20th birthday, ran 11.14 seconds, a new Guyana national record, to take the top 100m spot.
She got a very good start and held off a fairly good field, which included USA's Tawanna Meadows and US Virgin Islands' Lavern Jones-Ferette.
"My main goal was to push from the start and make sure that my first half of the race is good, because that part of the race is normally my weakest part and today I got it (right)," said the Texas A&M student.