Junior national players Abosaide Cadogan and Kirstin Gomes continued their winning ways to work their way into the semi-finals of the Lucozade handicap squash tournament last evening at the Georgetown Club while senior national player Taylor Fernandes went down in her first bonafide match of the tournament.
Cadogan, after dropping the first set 9-15 against Sarah Lewis in their category A encounter, returned to play patient squash in the following two sets to capture the match 15-12, 15-7. Cadogan began the handicap with a negative four, score.
Gomes, on the other hand, who began the match with a negative two handicap, defeated her cousin Jason Gomes (+7) 15-13, 15-9 to notch up her second win leading into the semis.
Meanwhile, Fernandes (-4), the highest ranked locally based female player, was made to sweat in an intense duel against former junior national player Deje Dias, who she lost to 0-2.
The contest which was the most competitive of the night, saw Dias winning the first set 15 – 13 while he saw off combative response from Fernandes in the second set to win it 15-14.
Regan Pollard was also in top form, playing with a negative twelve handicap and defeated Adam Alves (+4) 15-7, 12-15, 15-7 as Nyron Joseph (-22) got the better of Kevin Goveia (+11), 15-13, 15-13 in what was the most crowd chirping match of the night.
Mohryan Baksh also maintained a clean slate by defeating Gianni Carpenter 2-1;
11-15, 15-13, 15-12 to maintain his unbeaten run.
Also in the winners’ row were Javid Rahaman who got past Brian Yong 15-10, 15-10 while Joshua Abdool downed Robert Natiello 15-9,15-9.
The earlier encounters saw Lucas Persaud defeating Joshua Verwey 15-8, 15-10 as Steven Xavier got his way with Jonathan Antczack 15-10, 15-14.
