St Augustine take UWI n-ball silver

A WONDERFUL all-round team effort enabled St Augustine campus to capture the 2003 UWI Games netball silver medals.

The host team downed Mona (Jamaica) 34-22 in the second place play-offs at the new multi-millon dollar Sports and Physical Education Centre (SPEC), St Augustine, on Thursday. The Antoinette Gaskin-coached St Augustine team fought bravely to conquer their opponents after the first quarter ended 6-6. They led 15-8 and 25-14 at the half and three-quarter stages. Goal-attack Nicole Laptiste who scored 24 goals from 37 attempts and goal-shoot Heather Woodrooffe 10 from 17 combined beautifully inside the shooting circle to despite the much taller goal-defence Tame-ka Blenman and goal-keep Sitara English.

Melanie Gilchrist had 16 of 23 attempts while Anneka Thomp-son scored six of 10 for Mona. In the volleyball silver-medal match  played prior to the netball game, the St Augustine were beaten 3-1 Cave Hill after taking the first set 25-22.  They lost 20-25; 21-25, 15-25, And yesterday, St Augustine and Cave Hill played to a 0-0 draw, and will share the gold medals at the games which ends today with the Track and Field competition at the Hasely Crawford Stadium from 8 am.