The Jamaica Star :: Sport :: Guyana top Caribbean Junior Squash

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC

Trinidad and Tobago's England-based Kerrie Sample put the brakes on Barbadian Cheri-Ann Parris and won the Girls' Under-19 title at the 2008 Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Championship on Monday.

Sample, playing in her first ever Caribbean championship, beat the No.1 seed Parris 5-9, 9-4, 7-9, 9-5, 9-5 as the Barbadian junior champion suffered her first loss at the CASA juniors in six years.

Top loser

Parris was the only top seed to lose on finals night and Guyanese players were the most prolific with three titles at the Bermuda Squash Racquet Association (BSRA) Courts while bad weather prevailed outside from the effects of Tropical Storm Bertha.

Reigning overall team champions Guyana fell short of their four divisional wins in Tortola last year, but celebrated title wins through their talented girls Keisha Jeffrey, Mary Fung-a-Fat and Victoria Arjoon.

Keisha defeated her twin sister and No.2 seed Kayla Jeffrey 10-8, 10-8, 9-4 in the U17 final, the improving Fung-A-Fat outplayed her teammate Ashley deGroot 9-0, 9-0, 9-2 for the U15 crown, and Arjoon repeated as U13 champion by defeating Bermuda's Emma Keane 9-0, 9-1, 9-2.

In the other finals, the Cayman Islands' Cameron Stafford beat Guyana's Alex Arjoon 9-4, 9-1, 8-10 in the Boys' U17 final, Kevin Hannaway, of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), claimed the Boys' U15 crown by defeating 2006 U13 champion Noah Browne, of Bermuda, 9-4, 9-4, 9-2, and T&T's Nku Patrick stepped up on his runner-up position last year to win the Boys' U13 title 9-1, 10-9, 3-9, 5-9, 9-1 over Jamaican Jake Mahfood.