Fifteen-year-old Nyron Joseph produced an outstanding come-from-behind performance in the semi-final of the Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Junior Caribbean Squash Championships in Jamaica to advance to today’s final.
Joseph lost the first two games in the three best of five semi-final encounter to Trinidad and Tobago’s Nku Patrick but remarkably managed to win three straight games to close out Patrick in stunning fashion. The fourth-form, Christ Church Secondary School student, had defeated Patrick in the final of last year’s tournament in Guyana to win his maiden title in the under 15 category.
This time around, Patrick had numerous chances to gain his revenge but Joseph just would not give up. Patrick got game ball at 10/7 in the fifth game but Joseph held his composure and won three straight points to force set three. After several interference calls, Joseph managed to keep it together and win the final two points to emphatically beat Patrick and reach his second straight Junior CASA finals.
Guyana had made it to the semi-finals in seven of the eight age categories with the exception being the boys under 13 category where Shomari Wiltshire was eliminated in the first round. However, reports reaching this newspaper indicated that one of Shomari’s older sisters Larissa Wiltshire reached the final of the girls under-15 category for the second straight year.
Larissa Wiltshire was the runner-up to her sister Akeila Wiltshire, who had also made the semifinal in the girls under 17 category.
Larissa Wiltshire was given the number one seed in this year’s category and managed to defeat Trinidad and Tobago’s Marion Faith Gillezeau to the reach the final where she will compete against girls under 15 debutant Alyssa Mullings who is the two-time U13 champion.
