TT boy beaten in regional squash final

GEORGETOWN: Hosts Guyana and Barbados evenly shared six titles as the Caribbean Junior Squash championship ended its individual competition at the Georgetown Club on Monday night.

Damien Da Silva, Andrea King and Christine King triumphed for the Guyanese while Barbados celebrated wins for Bryan Cumberbatch, Bo Harris and Cherri-Ann Parris. Da Silva survived a five-set struggle with Stanley Marcus in an all Guyanese final to win the Boys Under-17 title 6-9, 9-3, 7-9, 9-4, 9-4. Andrea King got past her teammate Tifanny Solomon in five sets for the Girls Under-19 crown, and Kristina King topped Barbadian Nadia McCarthy 9-5, 9-5, 9-1 for the Girls Under-17 title.

Cumberbatch snatched his fifth Caribbean title when he turned back Jamaican Chris Binnie 9-0, 9-6, 9-4 in the Boys Under-15 final.
Barbados collected their other titles when Harris, who had stopped Jamaica’s Kristina Bell in Sunday’s “semis”, beat Bermuda’s Laura Robinson 9-6, 9-1, 7-9, 9-4 in the Girls Under-15 final, and Parris defeated Daina King of Guyana 9-4, 9-4, 9-4 for the Girls Under-13 crown.

Bermuda’s James Stout and Alain Mudeen, of the Cayman Islands, copped the other titles at stake. Stout cruised past Guyana’a Gerard Greaves 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 in the Boys Under-19 final, and Mudeen outplayed Trinidadian Justin Sanguenetti 9-6, 9-7, 9-2 for the Boys Under-13 crown.