2018 CASA Junior Squash C/Ships... Barbados produces high-level Squash to retain team title - Guyana settles for Silver

2018 CASA Junior Squash C/Ships… Barbados produces high-level Squash to retain team title – Guyana settles for Silver

Jul 15, 2018 Sports

The Guyana boys and girls teams following their second place performance in the Caribbean Junior Squash Championships in Jamaica.

It was a repeat of last year’s CASA tournament held in Guyana when Barbados ended Guyana’s 12-year dominance of Caribbean Junior Squash.
The Guyanese had to settle for the runner-up spot as Barbados romped to back-to-back titles yesterday at the Ligaunea Club in Kingston, Jamaica.
Guyana Girls lost 4-1 and the Boys were beaten 3-2; both to Barbados and for the second year in a row the South American team had to settle for the Silver Medal.
Rebekah Nichols was the only member of the Barbados team to be defeated when she lost the penultimate game to Georgiana Fernandes 5-11, 8-11, 11-8, 2-11, but by then Guyana had already lost their first three games and it was just a consolation win.
Watched by a fair sized gathering, the day began with 16-year-old Meagan Best, the first squash player from the Caribbean to win a US Junior Open squash championship title, destroying Guyana’s Madison Fernandes 11-2, 11-1, 11-0.
Jada Smith-Padmore then got past Kirsten Gomes 11-7, 5-11, 11-6, 11-2, Amanda Haywood had things her way against Guyana Captain Rebecca Low as she won 11-3, 11-2, 11-4, while Sumiraa Suleman beat Abosaide Cadogan, who captured Silver in the individual category, 9-11, 11-7, 11-5, 10-12, 11-8 in a riveting battle.
The Boys began in auspicious fashion when Bajan Chemar Burnham was beaten by Daniel Islam in straight games, 7-11, 5-11, 5-11 but only Shomari Wilshire, who followed up his Gold Medal showing in the individual U-15s by beating Darien Benn in the final game to enhance his growing reputation on the Caribbean Squash circuit won for Guyana.
Rithew Saywack, Alex Cheeks and Michael Alphonso, who failed to replicate his Gold Medal performance in the individuals, all lost their games.