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CYG 2015 – Day 3… Round up of Guyanese performances

Sep 10, 2015 Sports

Squash stated for Team Guyana at 10:00 with Mixed Doubles (Taylor Fernandes and Ben Mekdeci) against Norfolk Islands.   Guyana won two best of three 11-2 and 11-5.
Women’s Doubles – Larissa Wiltshire and Taylor Fernandes played against Australia at 11:30; winning an exciting match – first game they won 11-9 (after coming back from 9-4), second the lost 7-11, third won 11-10 in a sudden-death tie-breaker with Australia serving.
At 2:00pm, Taylor and Ben played top-seeded Malaysia in Mixed Doubles.  In the first game they did very well, losing 11-7.  The second game was lost 11-1.  Team Guyana is now second in their group and will play the winner of Pakistan vs. India tomorrow.
At 3:30pm there was another Women’s Doubles match against top-ranked New Zealand.  The Guyana girls played very well, but lost 11-7 and 11-9.
At 6:30pm Ben and Taylor played in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles against India.  They were going smoothly in the first game until Ben was struck in the right temple, by the ball.  He continued to play, but was dazed.  The team lost 11-4 and he was forced to take two injury time-outs between the games.  The second game was lost 11-7.  Ben was still not feeling well and had to receive attention from the medical team.
At 7:30pm the girls played against Norfolk winning an exciting, tactical match; exposing their opponents’ weaknesses.  They targeted the weaker of the two girls, resulting in wins of 11-2, 11-5; guaranteeing them the bronze medal.  This is well deserved as they were indeed the third best team.
These were the last games for Guyana’s squash players.  The Squash competition finishes today (September 10th) with the semi-finals and finals of the Mixed Doubles.
Athletics
Compton Caesar ran in the second of two semi-finals (9:50am).  He placed second with a PB of 21.67; qualifying for the finals at 10:40am.  In the process he experienced soreness in the injured hamstring which was iced by the medical team just minutes before the final.
He placed seventh in the final with a time of 21.60.
September 9th was the last of three days of Athletics competition.

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