Barbados sink Guyana 112-13 in AFNA Championship

Jul 19, 2012 Sports

By Juanita Hooper in Trinidad and Tobago
Guyana National Netball team could not have prevented another downfall on the fourth day of the American Federation of Netball Association (AFNA) Championship Tuesday evening on court two at the Trinidad and Tobago Jean Pierre Complex, Port-of-Spain.
Barbados overpowered the Guyanese players by a score-line of 112-13.
They Guyanese could not have prevented the majority of the back to back goals that their opponents fashioned despite taking a more aggressive approach to the Bajans after acquiring valuable learning experiences from their previous matches against experienced teams especially Jamaica and Trinidad.

Not even a jump from Simonica Fanfair, could have not stopped Barbados towering shooter, Laurel Browne’s shot.

Angeline McCarthy was not the only scorer for Guyana this time, she was accompanied by Shonette Estwick and Simonica Fanfair who netted a total of one and four goals respectively to compliment McCarthy’s eight.
The Bajans dominated in the first quarter of the match, netting 31 goals from their attempted 34 shots; goals shooter Laurel Browne credited her team with 27 goals from 28 shots as Ricah Holder netted 4 from six.
Angeline McCarthy successfully netted all three of her attempts to end the quarter on 31-4 score-line.
The second quarter saw Guyana putting in one goal, compliments of McCarthy who attempted two shots. Estwick also attempted one but was unable to score.
The Bajans score at the end of the second quarter was now 58-4. Netting in the second quarter was Browne, 20 and Holder 7.
The winners in the third quarter continued to take advantage of Guyana, making more long range and high passes to get the ball into the goal scoring circle.
The passes which were far out of the reach of Guyana saw Shonica Wharton and Nikita Piggott, fresh legs on the court crediting the winning account with 16 and 9 goals each. The score was now 83-10 in their favour. McCarthy (2) and Fanfair (4) collectively scored 6 goals in the third quarter for Guyana.
The final quarter, which featured one of the Guyanese players getting injured, saw the winning team shooting in a total of 29 goals from 32 attempts to overpower Guyana’s young team.
Guyana was also conquered by Saint Lucia on day two by 87-17.
Guyana will be engaging Canada on Friday evening at the Jean Pierre Complex.