Raphael DeGroot and Ashley Khalil headline night three

Feb 28, 2015 Sports

Bounty Farm Ltd Handicap squash tourney …

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration Digicel is holding their Annual Bounty Farm Ltd

Rapheal Degroot

Handicap Squash Tournament at the Georgetown Club squash courts and matches continued on day three on Thursday night with play in both Category A and the Open category.
Spectators were entertained by several close and high quality matches and in what turned out to be the feature match of the night Javid Rahaman +3, battled Raphael De Groot -13.
Javid won the first game relatively easily as he reached ten points before Raphael reached to zero and eventually won the game 15 – 7. In the second game Javid again reached to ten points before Raphael reached zero and at 14 – 6 match ball it seemed as it was all over for Raphael but this was not to be as he clawed his way back one point at a time before eventually winning the second game 18 – 16.
In the third game Javid reached to nine points before Raphael reached to zero but could get no further than thirteen as Raphael completed a remarkable comeback victory by winning the third game 15 – 13.
In the match-up between two female national players, Ashley Khalil -3 and Ashley De Groot+1, Ashley Khalil won the first game comfortably 15 – 8 but the second game was a different affair as firstly Ashley Khalil had match point at 14 – 12 but then Ashley De Groot won the next three points to have game ball at 15 – 14 and then another game point at 17 – 16 before Ashley Khalil finally won the game 21 – 19 and the match.
In category A the James Mekdeci +7 against Kamir Khan +7 was the highlight of the evening. James won an extremely close first game 19 – 17, but Kamir bounced back to win the second game easily 15 – 11. The third

Ashley DeGroot

game went back and forth and with Kamir leading 12 – 8 it seemed as if he would go on to take the match but James won the next six points to have match point at 14 – 12 and eventually won 16 – 14.
Play was scheduled to continue at the Georgetown Club Courts from 18: 00hrs last night while today’s action commences at noon and then continues at 18:00hrs with the finals set for tomorrow from 11:00hrs.
Results:
Open Category
Ashley Khalil – 3 defeated Ashley De Groot +115 – 8, 21 – 19
Nyron Joseph-16 defeated Matthew Phang +7 15 – 12, 15 – 13
John Maikoo +7 beat Jan Verwey +9 15 – 11, 17 – 15
Raphael De Groot -13 beat JavidRahaman+37 – 15, 18 – 16, 15 – 13
Nicholas Narain -15 defeated Ryan Rahaman +5 15 – 8, 15 – 11
Ben Mekdeci -11 defeated Daniel Islam +7 19 – 17, 15 – 13
Jason Ray Khalil -24 defeated Wayne Alphonso +11 15 – 12, 15 – 11
Category A
Michael Alphonso -1 defeated Halley Carpenter +9 15 – 12, 15 – 11
James Mekdeci +7 beat Kamir Khan +7 19 – 17, 11 – 15, 16 – 14
Kirsten Gomes +4 beat Teija Edwards +10 15 – 8, 15 – 8
Lucas Jonas -3 defeated Chad De Abreu +11 16 – 14, 9 – 15, 16 – 14
Demetrius De Abreu -1 defeated Georgiana Fernandes +10 15 – 11, 16 – 14
Madison Fernandes +3 defeated Mohryan Baksh +10 15 – 11, 15 – 8
Ethan Jonas -1 beat Jason Gomes +4 15 – 8, 15 – 7
Open category Plate
Alex Cheeks +7 beat J Fernandes +9 15 – 9, 15 – 13
Timothy Jonas +10 beat Robin Low +10 15 – 12, 15 – 6
Medhi Ramdhani +5 beat Makeda Harding+10 15 – 9, 15 – 9
Andrea King +8 beat Jonathan Edwards +12 15 – 9, 15 – 5
Taylor Fernandes +6 defeated Haopei Yang +10 15 – 12, 16 – 14
Dwayne Yan +9 beat Kyle Waldron +10 15 – 9, 15 – 10
Joe Mekdeci 0 beat Anthony Islam +9 4 – 15, 15 – 13, 16 – 14
Anil Singh +10 beat Jamaal Douglas +8 15 – 6, 15 – 10
Stephen Fernandes got a walkover from David Fernandes
Sarah Lewis secured a walkover from D Dyal
Tiffany Soloman got a walkover from Dustani Barrow
Rebecca Low secured a walkover from N Persaud