Creditable effort by Jamaica at Junior Squash Champs

JAMAICA FINISHED third and fifth in the boys and girls divisions, respectively of the Caribbean Junior Squash Championship which ended in Barbados yesterday.

The boys beat Venezuela 3-2 in the play-off for third place but may have to wait on the decision of a panel to finalise this as they were tied in third-place overall with Trinidad and Tobago who had the same amount of points.

The girls defeated Cayman 3-2 to take fifth place.

Chris Binnie started on a confident note, defeating Daniel Diaz 3-0 (9-1, 9-0, 9-6), but Kyle Gregg lost the next match 3-0 (4-9, 3-9, 2-9) against Hernan Guidi for a 1-1 tie with Venezuela early in the play-off.

Under-19 champion James Bullock put the Jamaicans back in front when he blanked Luis Hernandez 3-0 (9-2, 9-1, 9-0). The Venezuelans equalised once more when Daniel Guidi shut out David Patterson 3-0 (0-9, 8-9, 5-9).

It was Brad Low who clinched victory for Jamaica when he exacted revenge over Juan Tripier, beating him 3-1 (9-7, 4-9, 9-4, 9-7).

Tripier had previously defeated Low for third place in the individual event.

With two walkovers to their advantage, Jamaica added Rori-Leigh Mighty's 3-0 (9-0, 9-0, 9-0) win over Sophie Benbow to oust their opponents.

Laurian Lue Yen and Melissa Lue Yen got walkovers. In the other two games, Kristine Bell lost 3-2 (9-4, 0-9, 9-6, 0-9, 3-9) to Samantha Hennings while Tracy Binnie succumbed to Chantelle Day by the same margin. Day won 9-1, 9-6, 9-10, 4-9, 2-9.

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