Farfan & Mendes Junior Christmas tournament ...Larissa Wiltshire and Ben Mekdeci rebuff stern challenges

Farfan & Mendes Junior Christmas tournament …Larissa Wiltshire and Ben Mekdeci rebuff stern challenges

Dec 07, 2014 Sports

The Guyana Squash Association in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel is holding the annual

Larissa Wiltshire

Farfan & Mendes Junior Christmas Squash Tournament at the Georgetown Club Inc. squash courts.
Play commenced on day two with matches in all eight of the categories which are being contested. In one of the feature matches of the evening Alex Cheeks again put up a fight against fellow national player Larissa Wiltshire but again came up short. Larissa won the first two games 11 – 3 and 11 – 1 but Alex started playing better in the third game and won it 11 – 7. Larissa seemed to re-focus in the fourth game and easily won it 11 – 4.
Shomari Wiltshire and Daniel Islam renewed their rivalry and even though Shomari won the match in straight games 11 – 4, 12 – 10, 11 – 8 Daniel played extremely well and was unlucky not to win the second game.
In the match in category A between national Under 17 players Ben Mekdeci and Alec Melville, there were several long rallies but Ben played the crucial points better and won in straight games 11 – 4, 11 – 5, 11 – 8.
Results in each of the categories were as follows.
Category H
Mohyryan Baksh defeated Geovanna Dos Santos 11 – 5, 11 – 5
Paige Fernandes defeated Isabella Ramjohn 11 – 7, 11 – 4
Beau Fernandes beat Teija Edwards 11 – 9 ,11- 8
Category G
Kamir Khan beat Liam Carpenter 11 – 1, 11 – 2
Category F
James Mekdeci beat Nathan Rahaman 11 – 4, 11 – 3
Gareth Da Silva beat Aliyah Persaud 11 – 5, 11 – 9
Category E

Ben Mekdeci

Madison Fernandes beat Kirsten Gomes 11 – 3 , 11 – 3
Daniel Lowe lost to Nechmiyah Levans 5 – 11, 11 – 8, 0 – 11
Zachary Persaud beat Nadine Jairam 11 – 5, 11 – 3
Category D
Demetrius De Abreu lost to Ethan Jonas 5 – 11, 10 – 12,3 – 11
Category C
Jael Gaskin lost to Makeda Harding 11 -8, 10- 12 ,8 – 11, 2 – 11
Anthony Islam beat Maya Collins 11 – 4, 11 – 8, 11 – 5
Category B
Larissa Wiltshire beat Alex Cheeks 11 – 3, 11 – 1,7 – 11,11 – 4
Shomari Wiltshire beat Daniel Islam 11 – 4, 12 – 10, 11 – 8
Category A
Ben Mekdeci defeated Alec Melville 11 – 4, 11 – 5, 11 – 8
Matches continue at the Georgetown squash courts.