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May 12, 2013 Sports
The Guyana Squash Association in collaboration with its number one corporate sponsor Digicel on Friday night and yesterday morning ran off night four and day five of its National Junior Squash tournament sponsored by Woodpecker Products Ltd at the Georgetown Club Courts.
In the Boys Under-11 category, where fourteen players are involved, each of these boys had to play two matches on Friday evening and then three matches yesterday morning. Currently leading in this category having not lost a match are Shomari Wiltshire and Gianni Carpenter.
One of the feature matches of Friday evening matched Larissa Wiltshire against Taylor Fernandes and once again they did not disappoint with the match going the full five games with the young Wiltshire emerging winner in the close tussle.
In the first game Taylor jumped out to an early lead moving to seven four before Larissa reeled off the next seven points and closed out the game 11-7. Taylor changed her strategy in game two deliberately slowing down her game and this paid dividend as she won this game easily 11-5 and then after leading 5-0 in the third only allowed Larissa to get three points as she convincingly won the third 11-3.
The fourth game was one where neither of the two players were up by more than two points but after Larissa had moved into the lead and was two points from leveling the match, leading 9-6 Taylor fought her way back to 9-9, but then Larissa won the next two points to take the match into a deciding fifth and final game. Larissa went ahead in this game and was up 7-3 then 9-4. Taylor then moved to six then Larissa had match ball at 10-6, Taylor won two more points but Larissa then closed out this tense and exciting match 11-8.
Caribbean Under-17 champion Nyron Joseph showed his class while dispatching Steven Xavier in three straight games 11-5, 11-9, 11-5. Steven seems not to have fully recovered from the hamstring injury he suffered three weeks ago in the Ansa McAl Senior Easter tournament.
Caribbean Under-19 runner up Ashley DeGroot was stretched in her match against former Caribbean Under-15 Champion Akeila Wiltshire. After winning the first game 11-3 and the second 11-5 Akeila was able to get into the match and won the third game 11-9. However, Ashley prevailed in the fourth 11-5.
In a match-up of two of the top Under-15 girls, Rebecca Lowe defeated Sarah Lewis in four games. Rebecca won 11-4, 11-4 6-11, 11-2.
Former Caribbean Under-13 champion Ben Mekdeci recovered from a slow start in his matchup against Alec Melville. After losing the first game 11-4 he caught himself and won the next three games 11-0, 11-7, 11-6.
The match of the morning on day five was between two Caribbean champions, Jason Ray Khalil and Nyron Joseph. These two players three weeks ago, in the final of the Ansa Mc Al sponsored Senior Easter tournament, had gone the full distance of five games with Jason winning 3-2. Nyron was hoping to turn the tables on him this time around. Jason won the first game 11-9 with neither player having more than a two point lead in this game. In the second Nyron jumped out to a 7-1 lead only for Jason to come to within two points at 5-7.
Nyron, however, won the next four points and closed out the game 11-5. Game three was a sea-saw affair until Jason moved from 6-4 to 10-4. Nyron, however, kept coming back and got to as close as eight before Jason played an amazing shot and won the game 11-8. This game seemed to take the steam out of Nyron as Jason moved out to an 8-3 lead in the fourth game. Nyron got to five then Jason moved to 10-5. Nyron could only get as close as seven before Jason Ray scored the next point and took the match by three games to one.
Results on night four are as follows:
Boys Under-11
Gianni Carpenter beat Michael Alphonso 11-2,11-2
Zachary Persaud beat Daniel Lowe 11-8,6-11,11-7
Demetrius DeAbreu beat Liam Carpenter 11-2,11-2
Dominic Collins beat Ethan Jonas 11-3,11-3
Gianni Carpenter beat Gareth DaSilva 11-0,11-2
Rajiv Lee beat Liam Carpenter 11-5,11-1
Zachary Persaud beat Rajiv Lee 11-2,11-4
Dominic Collins beat Michael Alphonso 11-6,11-4
John Phang beat Lucas Jonas 11-8,10-12,11-9
John Phang beat Gareth DaSilva 11-1,11-2
Shomari Wiltshire beat Ethan Jonas 11-4,11-3
Demetrius DeAbreu beat Nathan Rahaman 11-4,11-0
Shomari Wiltshire beat Nathan Rahaman 11-0,11-0
Lucas Jonas beat Daniel Lowe 11-0,11-4
Girls Under-13 & 15
Rebecca Lowe beat Sarah Lewis 11-4,11-4,6-11,11-2
Taylor Fernandes beat Maya Collins 11-3,11-0,11-2
Savannah Mendes beat Makeda Harding 11-0,11-8,11-4
Boys Under-13 & 15
Ben Mekdeci beat Jael Gaskin 11-1,11-2,11-1
Shomari Wiltshire beat Michael Ramroop 11-6,11-5,11-7
Daniel Islam beat Anthony Islam 11-3,11-6,11-6
Matthew Phang beat Alex Cheeks 11-8,11-4,11-5
Girls Under-17 & 19
Mary Fung A Fat beat Kristina Cheeks 11-1,11-1,11-1
Larissa Wiltshire beat Taylor Fernandes 11-7,5-11,3-11,11-9,11-8
Ashley DeGroot beat Akeila Wiltshire 11-3,11-5,9-11,11-5
Boys Under-17 & 19
Nyron Joseph beat Steven Xavier 1-5,11-9,11-5
Ben Mekdeci beat Alec Melville 4-11,11-0,11-7,11-6
Day five morning results
Boys Under 11
Shomari Wiltshire beat Rajiv Lee 11-4,11-1
Gianni carpenter beat John Phang 13-15,11-9,12-10
Lucas Jonas beat Demetrius DeAbreu 11-4,11-7
John Phang beat Daniel Lowe 11-1,11-2
Gianni Carpenter beat Liam Carpenter 11-0,11-0
Daniel Lowe beat Michael Alphonso 11-6,7-11,11-6
Nathan Rahaman beat Liam Carpenter 11-6,36-34
Shomari Wiltshire beat Michael Alphonso 11-2,11-1
Gianni Carpenter beat Zachary Persaud 11-0,11-5
Ethan Jonas beat Liam Carpenter 11-4,11-4
Ethan Jonas beat Rajiv Lee 11-9,10-12,11-9
Lucas Jonas beat Ethan Jonas 11-7,11-5
Zachary Persaud beat Demetrius DeAbreu 9-11,12-10-11,8
Daniel Lowe beat Rajiv Lee 11-6,11-7
John Phang beat Dominic Collins 11-5,12-10
Shomari Wiltshire beat Zachary Persaud 11-1,11-1
Dominic Collins beat Nathan Rahaman 11-2,11-1
Demetrius DeAbreu beat Michael Alphonso 11-1,11-5
Girls Under-11
Makeda Harding beat Halley Carpenter 11-3,11-0
Boys Under-13 & 15
Daniel Islam beat Jael Gaskin 11-7,14-12,11-8
Alex Cheeks beat Anthony Islam 11-1,11-3,11-3
Matthew Phang beat Michael Ramroop 11-6,11-5,11-5
Ben Mekdeci beat Shomari Wiltshire 11-7,11-2,11-2
Ben Mekdeci beat Michael Ramroop 11-0,11-3,11-1
Girls Under-13 & 15
Rebecca Lowe beat Savannah Mendes 11-4,11-5.11-1
Sarah Lewis beat Maya Collins 11-4,11-5,11-9
Girls Under-17 & 19
Akeila Wiltshire beat Kristina Cheeks 11-3.11-1,11-4
Boys Under-17 & 19
Jason Ray Khalil beat Nyron Joseph 11-9,5-11,11-8.11-7
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