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CAC Games 2018…Mixed results for Guyana on first three days
At the ongoing Central American and Caribbean (CAC) games being hosted in Barranquilla, Colombia, Guyana is being represented by ten sport disciplines. Last Friday, the Golden Arrowhead began their swimming campaign with Andrew Fowler entering the Men’s 100m Freestyle. While Andrew did not qualify for the next round, he swam a personal best of 55.01 seconds.
Members of team Guyana during the flag raising ceremony of the CAC 2018 games in Colombia.
Jamela Sanmoogan competed in the women’s 50m Butterfly on Saturday and like Fowler, she failed to move on to the next round but registered a personal best time of 29.76 seconds.
In Taekwondo, Guyanese Justin Choy lost to Ruddy Mateo of the Dominican Republic in the quarter finals of the men’s under 65kg division by 16 to 9 on Saturday. And, Choy’s teammate Adrian Spellen took to the mat last night for his first bout where he lost to Mexico’s Bryan Salazar 16-4.
HOCKEY
Guyana women lost their first two games while men won their lone match against Dominican Republic.
The women took to the field for their first match against 2014 CAC silver medallists, Dominican Republic, on Friday. Although the Dominicans had the edge in the first half of play, the Guyanese stalwart defence of sweeper Ulrica Sutherland and goalkeeper Alyssa Xavier kept the game scoreless at the half.
The extreme heat began to take its toll in the second half and in the 40th minute Marian Gonzalez put the Dominicans up by one from a goalmouth scramble. The Guyanese faded in the last twenty minutes of play as the Dominicans managed to pour in three more field goals to secure the 4-0 victory over Guyana.
Yesterday afternoon, the ladies lost to reigning gold medallists Cuba 2-0, courtesy of goals from defender Sunalylis Nikle-Coronit (50th minute) and forward Yunia Milanes-Marcos (38th minute).
In the men’s competition, the Guyanese men coincidentally faced off against the Dominican Republic on Saturday and had revenge for the ladies’ loss. The Dominicans stunned the confident Guyanese just two minutes into the match when Francisco Garcia deflected in a pass from the right after the Dominicans capitalized on a Guyanese defensive mix-up deep in their scoring circle.
The game then wore on with the Guyanese enjoying greater possession with stoical defence from the Dominicans until the 39th minute when Aroydy Branford converted a penalty stroke.
The Dominicans then resorted to physical play to neutralize the skilful Guyanese forwards but in the 49th and then 50th minutes, Guyana managed to convert two penalty corners through Marvin Dannet and a bullet of a shot from the outstanding Jamarj Assanah that granted an eventual 3-1 victory for the Golden Arrowhead at full time.
Guyana men will match skills with Mexico today at 13:00hrs.
SQUASH
Guyana’s top seeded men’s player, Sunil Seth opened his CAC bid with a victory over David Gonzalez of Panama. Seth however lost in the next round against #3 seed Arturo Salazar of Mexico 3-0. Young talented Jason-Ray Khalil also started on a good note by defeating Nku Patrick of Trinidad and Tobago but lost his next bid against #2 seed Cesar Salazar of Mexico3-0.
In the women’s draw, Mary Fung-a-fat got the better of Charlotte Knaggs of T&T in her opening match but ran into the number one seed, Samantha Teran the following day to whom she lost 3-0.
Former Caribbean Champion Taylor Fernandes, just elevating from the junior ranks to senior competition lost a hard-fought match to Amanda Haywood of Barbados 3-2.
In Men’s doubles, Guyana’s Sunil Seth and Jason-Ray Khalil won against St Vincent & the Grenadines pair of Jason Doyle and Othneil Bailey 2-0. The Guyanese pair faced the herculean task of the second seeded Arturo and Cesar Salazar on and lost 2-0 yesterday afternoon.
Women’s doubles team of Guyana’s Ashley Khalil and Taylor Fernandes defeated Amada Haywood and Jada Smith-Padmore of Barbados 2-1 yesterday morning.
Table Tennis
The Lady’s team results saw the team of Natalie Cummings, Chelsea Edghill and Trenace Lowe beating Barbados 3-0 but losing El Salvador and tournament favourites Cuba both 3-0.
The men have played one game so far where they lost to the number one seeded Cuba by a 3-0 margin.
The individual battles saw Christopher Franklyn, Shemar Britton, Trenace Lowe, Chelsea Edghill and Nigel Bryan have all advanced from the group stage to the knockout rounds.
Trenace Lowe has won all three of her games played so far, while Chelsea Edghil lost to Mabelyn Enrique of Guatemala 3-1 but bounced back to defeat Linda Partap of Trinidad and Tobago 3-0.
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