TT boys win CARIFTA waterpolo gold

TRINIDAD and Tobago snatched the gold medal in the boys category of the inaugural CARIFTA Games waterpolo series in Kingston, Jamaica.

Led again by Matthew George who scored another hat-trick in Sunday night’s game, the Trinidadians swept to the title with an emphatic 11-1 victory over Jamaica for their third consecutive triumph in the two-round three-team tournament. Stuart Gillette also scored a hat-trick, skipper John Littlepage two, while Troy Gordon, Christian Flook and Eoghan Muiller had one each to complete the scoring.  Phillip Anderson got Jamaica’s consolation goal. Earlier on Sunday, Netherland Antilles and Jamaica ended their game in a tie. The Trinidad and Tobago girls will atttempt to emulate their male counterparts when they take on Jamaica needing only a draw to take the gold medal.

In the swimming pool, Ayeisha Collymore splashed to golds in the Girls 15-17 age group 100 metres backstroke to lead Trinidad and Tobago to five gold medals on Sunday. Brittany Stewart had the golden touch in the 11-12 age group 100 metres backstroke and Janine Thronhill took the 11-12 girls 100 metres freestyle gold. Joel Sankar touched first in the Boys 11-12 age group 200 metres butterfly to get the gold, while the 13-14 boys relay team of Andre Schamber, John-Ross Andrews, Jules Graham and Abeeku Forde-Phillip snatched the gold in the 4 x 100 metres medley.

Star swimmer Nicholas Bovell had to settle for silver in both the 100 metres backstroke and individual medley and the 100 metres freestyle for Boys 15-17, while Schamber got bronze in the 100 metres backstroke for 13-14 Boys and Shannon Duval got the bronze in the 13-14 Girls 200 metres individual medley.  The Trinidadians also got silver medals in the 11-12 and 13-14 Girls and 11-12 Boys 4 x 100 metres relay events. But Jamaica with 520.5 points lead the standings followed by Trinidad and Tobago on 434, Cayman Islands are next on 379; Bahamas 362; French Guiana 240; Netherland Antilles 232.5; Barbados 164; Suriname 112; Virgin Islands 101; St Lucia 36; Grenada 26; Aruba 21.