The Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

GLASGOW, Scotland — They juggled the line-up that got the Bahamas women’s 4 x 100 metre relay team into the final and they ended up in sixth place on the final day of the athletic competition at the 20th Commonwealth Games.

The team of Katrina Seymour, Sheniqua ‘Q’ Ferguson, Cache Armbrister and Nivea Smith ran 44.25 seconds on Saturday at the Hampden Park National Stadium where the Jamaican team, anchored by the sensational Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, posted a world leading and games record of 41.83, lowering their own time of 42.44 that they ran in the preliminaries. Nigeria took the silver in 42.92 and the bronze went to England in 43.10.

“It was good. We had a lot of fun going into the relay. Not the team we wanted, but we did pretty good with what we had,” said Smith, a Grand Bahamian native from Catholic High and Auburn University.

Smith, 24, ran another exceptional anchor leg to try and put the Bahamas in the mix for a medal, just as she did to help get the team into the final.

“We missed a lot of people in this one, but what we had, we did a good job with the team we put together.”

Armbrister, who sat out the heats that saw the team of Ferguson, Shaunae Miller, Krystal Bodie and Smith run, said they reconstructed the team and everybody went out and gave it their best.

“Being on the third leg, I was actually able to watch as Katrina put a whole lot of effort into it. So we’re not going to knock her for it,” said Armbrister, a 24-year-old from Auburn University via St Augustine’s College.

“Everybody went out there and did what they had to do with the team that we had. Not because we didn’t win a medal people should look down on us or to say that we didn’t give it our best. Sometimes your best is not always first place or second place or third place.”

Ferguson, a 24-year-old former student of Jordan Prince Williams and Auburn University who switched from pop off in the heats to second in the final, said she was comfortable with the move.

“It felt good. I got used to running it at the World Relays, so the second leg was good,” she said. “We just went out there and did what we had to do. We put our best foot forward and that’s all we could ask for.

“We have some aches and pains and that’s because it’s coming down to the end of the season.

“But at the end of the day, we went out there and we represented our country well. We’re happy with what we did with the team that we had to work together.”

Running with the sprinters instead of the quarter-millers, 21-year-old Seymour said she was content with her effort as she made her debut on the big stage.

“I am proud of this team. I just told ‘Q’, who is my room-mate, the other day that I always liked to watch her run the relay, so I felt privileged to hand the baton to her,” she said.

“I think we went out there and did the best that we could.”

Seymour, a first round competitor in her debut in the 400m hurdles at a major international meet, said she got to watch as her team-mates got the baton around and they all finished without any injuries.