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Guyana win overall at Caribbean Pre-Cadet TT C/ships
-Successful, well-decorated team returns
Guyana’s won overall at the seventh Pre-Cadet Caribbean Table Tennis (TT) Championships in Jamaica over the last weekend after picking up a total of five gold medals, five silver medals and eight bronze medals to topple the usually strong Dominican Republic.
Upon the team’s return yesterday, table tennis coach, Linden Johnson, who went to Jamaica with the team, indicated that Guyana secured a total of 48 points to win overall ahead of the 46 points that the
Guyana’s successful pre-cadets table tennis team, coaches and parents pose with their medals and trophies that were gathered from the recent Caribbean Championships in Jamaica.
Dominican Republic secured. Barbados was third.
“I cannot recall in our history, no table tennis team that has ever brought back so many medals at any level. This says a lot about our junior programmes,” Johnson told Kaieteur Sport yesterday, following a photo opportunity with the national pre-cadet team.
The 13-Years-and-Under Boys team comprised Elishaba Johnson, Kyle Edghill, Miguel Wong and Rajiv Muneshwer; they defeated Barbados 3-1 in the final to win gold. Earlier in the group stages, Barbados had beaten Guyana 3-1 but could not repeat that performance.
The U-13 Girls team namely Priscilla Greaves, Jamaali Homer and Kristie Lopes won the round-robin playoff when they beat Jamaica in the deciding match 3-1 to also win gold.
In the Boys Doubles, Edghill and Johnson beat the Barbados pair of Stephen Payne and Tyrese Knight 3-1 in the final. Joint third place went to Wong and Muneshwer (Guyana) and Orlando Greene and Ishmael Leon from Jamaica.
In the Girls’ version, Homer and Greaves took care of Kristie Lopes (Guyana) and Ray Thomas (Trinidad) 3-1 in the final while the Mixed-Doubles final saw Johnson and Greaves defeating the Edghill and Homer pair 3-0. Joint third place went to Lopes and Wong and Stephan Payne and Alleyne (Barbados).
In the 11-Years-and-Under Girls contest, Nevaeh Clarkston, Selenas Jackman, Abigale Martin and Simran Bissu secured a bronze medal in the team’s event while Jeremey Singh and Selenas Jackman got a bronze in the Mixed-Doubles event. In the Boys’ Doubles event, Singh and Tyriq Saunders also won bronze.
In the Singles, the 13-Years-and-Under Boys finals, Elishaba Johnson went down to Barbados’ Stephan Payne 4-0 with joint third place going to Edghill and Knight.
In the Girls’ contest, Dominican Republic’s Esmerlyn Castro defeated Priscilla Greaves 4-1 with joint third place going to Homer and Kelice Sinclair (Jamaica).
The Championship attracted eight countries and over 100 players from Aruba, Barbados, French Guiana, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, St Maarten, and the host country, Jamaica.
Photo saved in claude as Pre-Cadets Team
Guyana’s successful pre-cadets table tennis team, coaches and parents pose with their medals and trophies that were gathered from the recent Caribbean Championships in Jamaica.
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