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Caribbean Junior Squash Championships 2014 Guyana make good start to Team title defence

Jul 17, 2014 Sports

On the opening day of the team event at the Junior Caribbean Squash Championships being held in Hamilton Bermuda, Team Guyana were seeking to rebound from the disappointment of only having two persons in the individual finals and not winning an individual title for the first time in several years.
Guyana as the defending Team champions in both the Boys and Girls have been seeded one in both categories and in both categories have been placed in the group with Bermuda and Trinidad & Tobago.
Guyana played both Bermuda teams on the opening day and were victorious with the Boys team winning three matches to two and the girls team having it slightly easier with a four matches to one win.
Boys Team
Shomari Wiltshire started things off with a convincing 11 -5, 11 – 6, 11 – 4 victory over Taylor Carrick.
Next on court was Alex Cheeks who gave it his all but lost a close match against Dylan Pratt losing 8 – 11, 11 – 8, 5 – 11, 11 – 6, 3 – 11.
Nyron Joseph, who for the first time in three years had not won an individual title, was next on court against Nazhir Smith and even though he dropped the second game still came out victorious winning 11 – 6, 6 – 11, 11 – 5, 11 – 6.
Alec Melville, who had played some excellent squash during the individual events, seemed tired and lost easily to Kion Knights 8 – 11, 9 – 11, 5 – 11.
It was now up to Ben Mekdeci playing the deciding match against Dylan Muldoon to close it out for Guyana. Ben easily won the first game 11 – 6 but seemed to lose concentration and lost the second game 10 – 12. Ben again won the third game 11 – 6 and had several match balls before finally winning the fourth game 13 – 11 and the match three games to one.
Girls Team
Makeda Harding was up first against Charlotte Toogood and quickly was down two games to love losing the first game 11 – 7 and then the second game 11 – 6. She settled down in the third game and won it 11 – 6 and then won the fourth game also at 11 – 6. The fifth game was a battle but Makeda prevailed 11 – 6.
Rebecca Low was up next against Olivia Lindsey and she lost the first game 5 – 11. Rebecca however won the second game 11 – 9. Rebecca seemed to get tired and lost the third game 4 – 11 and then the fourth game 2 – 11.
Akeila Wiltshire was matched up against Emma Keane in the under 19 tie and won fairly comfortably 11 – 4, 11 – 6, 11 – 7.
It was then left up to Victoria Arjoon to seal the victory for Guyana and this she did, winning easily 11 – 6, 11 – 3, 11 – 3.
Taylor Fernandes won the fifth match against Tiye Williams 11 – 2, 11 – 4, 13 – 15, 16 – 14 to ensure that Guyana beat Bermuda four matches to one.
Guyana will play Trinidad & Tobago in the Boys at 1.00 pm and in the Girls at 5.00pm tomorrow in the final group matches.
The semi-finals will be played on Friday with the finals on Saturday.

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