Despite trailing Mexico’s 67 medals with 53, Jamaica topped the tables at the recent NACAC Under-18 and Under-23 Championships in Mexico.Jamaica led the way with the most gold medals at the Championships, winning 26 compared to Mexico’s 22. Mexico’s overall medal tally was higher because the hosts participated in a number of exhibition events that featured fewer than three countries. Those events did not count towards the official medal standings, which resulted in Mexico ending with the larger overall medal haul.For Jamaica, the country’s athletes produced standout performances in five individual events, three in the Under-18 category and two in the Under-23 division.Kingston College schoolboy Jason Pitter, just as he did in Class Two at the ISSA/GrceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships, went under 46 seconds in the 400m. The fastest schoolboy in the country this year in the event, he raced to a championship record 45.98 seconds, his second sub-46 clocking of the season.Young Shameika McLean of Foga Road High School has also been a standout in the 400m this season. Competing in her first year in Class 1 at Champs, she clocked 52.22 seconds to win the one-lap event and became the second-fastest high school female quarter-miler this season behind Edwin Allen’s KellyAnn Carr (52.20). In Mexico, McLean won in 52.37 seconds and avenged her only defeat of the season, after losing to Danielle Dixon at the National Championships. Dixon finished third in Mexico.One of the country’s youngest athletes in Mexico, Edwin Allen High’s Tashana Godfrey, continued to make waves in the sprint hurdles. Godfrey, the Class 3 80m hurdles champion, contested the 100m hurdles for the first time this season and raced to a personal-best 13.30 seconds to win the Girls’ Under-18 title. The performance confirmed that her third-place finish among the senior girls at the National Championships in 13.40 seconds was no fluke.The other standout performances among the Jamaicans came in the Under-23 men’s 400m and 110m hurdles. Jasauna Dennis clocked a personal-best 45.33 seconds to win the 400m, while Shaquane Gordon also produced a personal-best 13.04 seconds to capture the 110m hurdles.Raymond Graham