Guyana’s Girls Team remain unbeaten ahead of finale

Jul 16, 2022 Sports

2022 Junior Caribbean Squash Championship…

– Guyana, Barbados Boys seek top honours

By Sean Devers

After beating the BVI 3-2 on Wednesday night, the Guyana Boys team followed up their victorious female counterparts when they defeated Trinidad & Tobago, 4-1, on Friday morning to advance to Friday night’s semi-finals of the 2022 Junior Caribbean Squash Championships, here, at the Georgetown Club Courts.

A large gathering of parents and supporters urged the players on Thursday night (Sean Devers photo)

Like the Girls, they rebounded from being 1-down to register their second win.

While Shomari Wilshire, who beat Bajan Darien Benn to win Gold in the Boy’s individual U-19 division on Tuesday, toyed with Ethan Fortune 11-2, 11-3, 11-2, the match of the day was between Guyana’s Samuel Ince-Carvalhal and Trinidadian, Seth Thong.

Despite going 6-11 in the first game, the talented Thong looked well-organised on the Court as Ince-Carvalhal realised he was in for a fight.

The action in the second game was riveting, with the pair matching each other shot for shot as the Guyanese in particular, demonstrated good cross-court work.

Kirsten Gomes plays off the glass in her victory against Trinidadian Cheloe Walcott (Sean Devers photo)

Nicholas Lequay (right) defeated Guyana’s Shiloh Asregaado on Friday (Sean Devers photo)

Safirah Sumner (background) got past T&T’s Mya Francois in the Girls U-15 team event on Thursday Night (Sean Devers photo)

Abosaide Codogan (right) beat T&T’s Charlotte Sutoliffe 3-0 in the Girls team event on Thursday Night at the GT Club (Sean Devers photo)

An entertaining 14-shot rally which climaxed with a well-executed drop shot that had Thong struggling to reach, had the small gathering on their feet.

At one point, Thong was leading 7-10 and on match point but as Ince-Carvalhal began climbing back into the fray, the Trini started to buckle under the mental pressure.

Self-doubt and a lack of focus resulted in Thong losing easy points before Ince-Carvalhal, despite showing signs of tiredness, took a game that Thong should won, 12-10.

The third game saw Thong starting in a positive mode but that attitude did not last long.

The Trinidadian wilted under pressure and game was technically over before Carvalhal played the winning shot to end the match 11-5, proving the saying, ‘winners never quit and quitters never win’, correct.

Nicolas Verwey was clinical in his 11-1, 11-1, 11-3 victory over Marcus Camps-Campins in the Boys U-17 match up.

Guyana’s Breno DaSilva beat Dylan Illis, who turned 10 last week, 11-6, 11-9, 11-4 in the Boys U-13 before Guyana’s 10 year-old, Ben Prang, beat eight year-old, Evan Inniss, in the U-11 exhibition match.

Meanwhile, Guyana Girls Team has secured wins against Trinidad and Tobago, Cayman Islands and Bermuda before adding another victory to the tally when they defeated Barbados on Friday, 4 -1. Abosaide Cadogan was in a no nonsense mood as she packed away Mariella Young in straight sets (11-2, 11-1, 11-2) in ten minutes.

Safirah Sumner got past Sarrayyah Yearwood 3 – 1 in a tough match that saw the former win the opening sets 14-12, 11-4 before the latter responded with a 7 – 11 set. The set that followed was won by Sumner with a comfortable 11 – 7 result.

Kirsten Gomes went through a similar match against Sumairaa Suleman as the local won 11 – 5, 11-4 before the visitor responded with a 9 – 11 win in the third set. The fourth set saw Gomes blasting out of the blocks to reach the match point in a flash but encountered a few hurdles along the way. She eventually won the set 11 – 7 to push Guyana’s tally to 3 – 0. The match that followed saw Avery Arjoon steamrolled Lenna Hamati 11-1, 11-0, 11-2 to take the tally to 4 – 0 before Barbados picked up a consolation win in the final round.

Today, the only hurdle that remains for the host nation’s Girls team is Jamaica, as the undefeated side seeks to lift the title.

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