-Guyana 15th at CAC  Games

The Guyana team was in 15th position with a silver and two bronze medals after yesterday’s action of the XXI Central American and Caribbean games currently underway in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

The medals have all been won by the squash team which gained a silver medal in the ladies doubles through Ashley Khalil and Nicolette Fernandes and bronze medals in the ladies team event and the ladies Open singles.

Fernandes won Guyana’s first medal of the games in the women’s individual singles event losing to eventual winner Samantha Teran of Mexico 11-5, 11-6, 11-5 in the semi-final.

She then teamed up with newly-crowned Caribbean under-19 champion, 17-year-old   Khalil to earn a silver medal in the women’s doubles after going down to the Colombia pair of Silvia Angulo and Catalina Pelaez 7-11, 8-11 in the final.

The ladies team defeated Jamaica and Guatemala but lost to Colombia in their group matches.

They, however, advanced as the runner up team in the group only to lose 1-2 to favourites Mexico on Saturday in their semi-final clash.

The men’s team of seasoned campaigner Regan Pollard and the young brigade of Alex Arjoon and Jason Ray Khalil lost  their group matches to Guatemala, Jamaica and El Salvador.

Alex Arjoon and Pollard lost to Malton Blair and Alexander Frazer of the Cayman Islands 9-11, 8-11 in a men’s doubles quarter-final encounter while Ashley and Jason Ray Khalil also reached the quarter finals of the mixed doubles losing 6-11, 6-11 to Tracy Binnie and Dane Schwier of Jamaica.

In table tennis, three Guyanese pairs were eliminated in the second round.

Paul David and Trenace Lowe, Idi Lewis and Natalie Cummings in the mixed doubles and Lowe and Michelle John in the women’s doubles all reached the second round of the competition before being eliminated.

Lowe/ David defeated Edilberto Merino and Estefania Ramirios 11/8, 11/8, 11/4 in their first round clash but lost to Colombia’s Natalie Bedoya and Juan Garcia 7/11, 7/11, 8/11 in the second round.

Lewis/Cummings defeated Anderson Carrington  and Julia Morris of Barbados 11-9, 11-6, 11-4 but lost to Luis Mejila and Sandra Orellana of El Salvador 8-11, 10-12, 7-11.

Christopher Franklyn and John lost to Ricardo  Criado and Gloriany Baba of Puerto Rico 11-9, 4-11, 6-11, 8-11.

Losing in the first round was the men’s doubles pair of Lewis and David who surprisingly went under to Carrington and Mark Dowell of Barbados 7-11, 10-12, 11-8, 4-11.

In the women’s doubles Lowe and John defeated Sherry Felix and Morris of Barbados 5-11, 11-7, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6 but lost to Bedoya and Medina of Colombia 3-11, 8-11, 8-11 in the next round.

In boxing Guyana’s Bert Brathwaite lost to Trinidad’s Aaron Hassette in a junior welterweight quarter-final clash by 13 points to four.

Devon Boatswain too was on the losing end of an 8-15 decision to Carlos Sequeira of Nicaragua in their middleweight bout on Saturday.

Yesterday, light flyweight Herlando Allicock lost to Costa Rica’s David Jiminez in their light flyweight contest with the referee stopping the contest in three minutes of the third round.

Today Dexter  Jordan will be in action against Panama’s Edgar Valencia in a men’s flyweight quarter-final clash while Ray Sandiford will oppose Barney Arguelles also of Panama in a quarter-final featherweight clash.

Yesterday Pompey clocked 52.43 seconds in the women’s 400m semi-final to qualify for today’s women’s 400m final which will take place at 8.35pm at the Stage Jose Figueroa Freyre stadium.

She will be coming up against Christine Amertil and Sasha Rolle of The Bahamas, TIandra Ponteen of St Kitts/Nevis, Clora Williams of Jamaica, Norma Gonzalez of Colombia, Raysa Sanchez of the Dominican Republic and Trish Bartholomew of Grenada.

Guyana’s women’s hockey team will also be in action today. They will oppose Trinidad and Tobago in  a Group A game after drawing their two previous matches against Barbados  and Bermuda on Saturday and Thursday 1-1 and  0-0 respectively.