Wilshire win 1st round before losing, Ince-Carvalhal lose

Nov 28, 2021 Sports

Jnr PanAm games

‘Boys played their best, beaten by better players’ coach Wilshire

Kaieteur News – Guyana squash players began their campaign in the Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia on Friday with two losses and a win in the three rounds of action played by Guyanese in a tournament in which the age limit was moved from U-19 to U-23 due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Guyana squash team in Colombia Coach Garfield Wilshire is at right.

Team leader 18-year-old Shomari Wilshire beat Ricardo Sebastian 3-0 and 17-year-old Samuel Ince-Carvalhal lost 3-0 to Jeremias Gonzalo in their opening games on Friday before Wilshire lost 3-0 to Canadian Ryan Picken 8-11, 5-11, 2-11 his second match of the day.
In yesterday’s doubles the Guyanese pair of Wilshire and Ince-Carvalhal lost their first game 4-11 and but demonstrated a bit more fight in their second game which they lost 9-11 before the World Ranked Argentinean pair of 22-year-old Jeremias Gonzalo and Azano Cornejo powered home as the Guyanese lost 2-0.
According to Coach Garfield Wilshire the boys played well but were up against more experienced players.
“Their performance was pleasing and there was no issue with the high altitude. The boys said that it did not affect them in any way.
The boys played their best but were beaten by better players. No shame at all in their performances,” informed Coach Wilshire, a top former Caribbean Squash player.

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