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Guyana make sweep of team titles at 31st Junior C’bean Squash C/ships
Guyana made a clean sweep of the team titles when the 31st Junior Caribbean Squash Championships concluded at the Cascadia Courts in Trinidad yesterday.
Guyana boys squash team
The Guyana Girls team won its eighth consecutive team title and Team Guyana won its ninth consecutive Overall Team title.
In the Girls Team final first on court Rebecca Low played Alyssa Mullings the Caribbean Under-15 Champion. Rebecca would prove to be no match for Alyssa and went down in straight games losing three love.
In match number two Makeda Harding came up against Mira Handa and Harding, who had lost to Handa in the individual tournament three games to love, turned the table on this occasion. A fired up Makeda won the first game, then her opponent won the second, but Makeda took the third. It then seemed as if the girls title would be in Guyana’s grasp because with a win in this match the Guyana team would be certain to win. However Mira Handa dug deep won the fourth and the fifth game in a see-saw battle with both players really playing well.
With Makeda leading nine points to eight the victory was still within her grasp but Mira won the next three points and the match by three games to two.
Girls captain Victoria Arjoon was next on court, facing Jessica Perkins with Guyana trailing in the tie by two matches to nil. But Arjoon was not to be denied as she romped to a comfortable win, three games to nil. Gabby Fraser then came on court for Guyana against MichaelAnn Denton and here again the match was a pretty easy one for the Guyanese girl, as she won in straight games three love.
It had now come down to the Under-17 Girls match to decide who would win the Girls team title. Akeila Wiltshire was matched up against Ashley Lynch. This contest was not close at all and Akeila blew away her opponent in straight games three games to nil handing Guyana the Girls Team Title.
Guyana girls squash team
In the Boys Team final, Ben Mekdeci was first on court against Tahjia Lumley. Mekdeci was by far the best Under-15 player in the tournament and displayed his class with a comfortable win three games to nil. Shomari Wiltshire then faced Adam Ardito and the Guyana team felt quite confident that with a win here the title would be almost secured. The youngest of the Wiltshire family won the first, but Ardito came out blazing in the second and took the game.
However, Shomari held his nerve to take the third and then the fourth to take the match by the score of three games to one.
The Under-19 Boys number one strings were on next and Jamaica would have felt that they would pull one back here as Jean Claude Jeffrey was up against Caribbean Under-19 Champion Ashante Smith. Jean Claude however felt that he had a chance in the match after earlier losing to the same opponent in the group match three games to two. Jean Claude won the first game and also took the second.
However in the third game it seemed as if Ashante was now warming up and Jean Claude was tiring very quickly. Jean Claude continued to play hard and at nine all in the third it was do or die for him. Jean Claude won the next two points and the match three games to love. The Boys Team title had been secured. Steven Xavier then played Julian Morrison and Julian won the match by three games to love. The fifth match between Nyron Joseph and Jake Mahfood was played as a friendly with Nyron winning by two games to nil.
The closing ceremony took place at the Cascadia Hotel last evening.
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