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GSA/Woodpecker National Junior Squash C/ships…Griffith upsets Melville in night two action at GT Club
The Guyana Squash Association (GSA), in collaboration with its corporate sponsor Digicel Guyana, National Junior Squash Championships sponsored by Woodpecker Products Ltd. continued on Wednesday evening, day two at the Georgetown Club.
Jonny Pang plays off the wall against Anthony Islam at the GT club Wednesday night
Some exciting matches were witnessed with one of the feature games of the evening involving Shemane Griffith, a 14-year-old Guyanese now living in Barbados and one of the top juniors in Guyana, Alec Melville.
Griffith has improved tremendously during the past two years and this was evident during the match. Griffith won the first game 11-9, but Melville evened things up with a hard fought 11-9 win in the second game. Griffith came out like a boy possessed in the third to sweep the set 11-0.
Melville however dug deep and won the fourth game 11-7 but Shemane was not to be denied and won the fifth and deciding game 11-8 creating the first major upset of the tournament.
Makeda Harding continued her impressive performance over the last few months with a hard fought 3-1 victory over Savannah Mendes scores being 11-4, 9-11, 11-6, 12-10.
Results of the matches on night two were as follows:
Girls Under-11
Madison Fernandes defeated Aliyah Persaud 11-0, 11-2
Kirsten Gomes beat Beau Fernandes 11-1, 11-4
Haley Carpenter defeated Paige Fernandes 11-9, 11-7
Boys Under-11
Gianni Carpenter defeated Nechemiyah Levans 11-3, 11-2
Rajiv Lee brushed aside Nathan Rahaman 11-0, 11-0
Zachary Persaud took care of Demetrius De Abreu 11-9, 5-11, 13-11
Michael Alphonso defeated Ethan Jonas 11-13, 11-4, 11-7
Shomari Wiltshire trounced Dominic Collins 11-2, 11-2
Boys Under-13
Anthon Islam beat John Phang 11-4, 11-1, 11-8
Shomari Wilshire (foreground) and Dominic Collins in action last night at the Georgetown Club
Daniel Islam got past Lucas Jonas 11-2, 11-5, 11-7
Shomari Wiltshire beat Gianni Carpenter 11-3, 11-2, 11-2
Girls Under 13/15
Makeda Harding beat Savannah Mendes 11-4, 9-11, 11-6, 12-10
Sarah Lewis was better than Maya Collins 11-6, 11-8, 11-2
Boys Under-15
Shemane Griffith beat Anthony Islam 11-1, 11-3, 11-5
Boys Under-17
Jael Gaskin beat Michael Ramroop 13-11, 11-8, 13-11
Ben Mekdeci defeated Alexander Cheeks 11-1, 11-4, 11-3
Shemane Griffith beat Alec Melville 11-9, 9-11, 11-0, 7-11, 11-8
Boys Under-19
Nyron Joseph defeated Matthew Phang 11-2, 11-5, 11-1
Matches were scheduled to continue last evening at the same venue.
Dominic Collins plays a bank hand shot at front Court against Shomari Wilshire
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