Jan. 6, 2008 — Juan Robles, home on vacation from college, showed he is still the dominating junior runner in the V.I. as he coasted to victory in the 26th Annual 3Kings Mile Road Race.
Robles, with high school runner Seymour Walters on his heels, went through the half-mile point in a quick 2 minutes and 1 seconds and held the lead all the way to win with a time of 4:19. Walters, of St. Croix Educational Complex High School and the strongest high school cross-country runners for the year, finished second in 4:29.
Dexter Hypolite of the University of the Virgin Islands was third in 5:09; Earnest Mitchell, the third place finisher in the St. Croix International Marathon on New Year’s Day and former member of the V.I. National Cross-Country Team was fourth in 5:33; George Mitch of ECHS was fifth in 5:40; Akil Andrews was sixth in 5:53; Teddy Seymour, the first black man to sail around the world solo, was seventh in 6:09; Arselcuk Omer was eighth in 7:11; David Zienner was ninth in 7:13; Wille Lewis, track coach at Eulalie Rivera Elementary School, was 10th in 9:10.
Sherma Aurelien, a CARIFTA Games 4th place finisher at 800 meters, dominated the cross-country season and had a good lead in the race from Claude O. Markoe School to Fort Fredrik. It was at approximately 75 meters to the finish that she was caught and passed by high school runner Ninfa Barnard of the SCTC.
Barnard defended her title with a first place time of 5:10; Aurelien took second in 5:19; Mireille Smith of the SCTC and Malique’s and Mikella’s mon was third in 5:31; Kennishah Phillip of SCTC was fourth and the first 13 and under girls finisher in 7:25; Darcie Mahurt was fifth in 8;13; Jackie Gardner of SCTC was sixth in 8:42; and Hope Hood of SCTC was seventh in 9:45.
