Squash Gold at CASA

They left Barbados being touted as the best junior squash team to embark on an overseas assignment.

And Monday night the Bajan team ended the third day of the July 16-24 34th annual Caribbean Junior Squash Championships being held in the Cayman Islands, having lived up to the high expectations.

At the end of the individual competition which concluded Monday night, Barbados had claimed a record six individual gold medals with a further two silver medals and three bronze medals from the ten individual finals contested.

First in the inaugural Under-11 age group final, the top seed Alex Stewart and the No.2 Aiden Parris played an exciting match that Stewart eventually won in five close games to bring Barbados both the gold and silver medals in the first year that this age group has been held. The previous day, nine-year-old Rebekah Nichols had already claimed the first bronze medal for Barbados in the inaugural Under-11 round-robin competition, which was won yesterday by Guyanese Paige Fernandes.

As expected, Barbados then took the girls’ Under-13, Under-15 and Under-17 titles with ease as the top seeded trio of Barbadian girls, who are all reigning Caribbean champions, all comfortably retained their respective titles in straight games. Sumairaa Suleman had to work hard in the first game against Kirsten Gomes of Guyana before winning 14-12, 11-7, 11-2 to claim her second straight Caribbean Under-13 title.

Amanda Haywood claimed her fourth Caribbean title winning easily 3-0 against Trinidadian Alexandria Yearwood in the Under-17 category while 14-year old national senior ladies squash champion Meagan Best won her fourth straight Caribbean title by dispatching Caymanian Jade Pitcairn in the Under-15 final for the loss of three points.

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