OECS Junior squash teams finish bottom at CASA

Both the male and female teams of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) finished at the bottom of the heap at the 2014 Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Championships concluded in Bermuda last Sunday.{{more}}

Vincentians Kai Bentick and Jason Doyle and St Lucian- Andre Segovia carried the hopes of the sub-regional male team.

The OECS was beaten by Barbados 4-1 and was sidelined by the Cayman Islands by the same score-line. The OECS was also to suffer 3-2 at the hands of Bermuda and Jamaica, thus relegating them to the cellar position.

It was the same tale when the females took to the courts.

Jamaica trounced the OECS 5-0, while Barbados and the Cayman Islands edged them out 3-2. But in the play off for the fifth and sixth places, the OECS was crushed by Bermuda, 5-0.

Meanwhile, there were some individual consolations for the Vincentians who made up OECS outfit.

Jason Doyle, who contested the male Under-17 category reached the final, but was defeated by Junior Jervis of the Cayman Islands 11-4, 11-7, 11-6.

Doyle who received a bye in the first round, went on to surpass Barbadian player Roland Brewster (11-1, 11-4, 11-3) and recorded a (11-3, 10-12, 11-5, 11-5) trumping of Trinidadian Chad Salandy in round three.

Also, Kai Bentick was again in the final of the male Under-13, but had to settle for the runner spot for the second year running. He lost out to Barbadian Khamal Cumberbatch, 9-11, 6-11, 7-11 in the title match.

Like Doyle, Bentick received a first round bye then defeated Will Roberts of the Cayman Islands (11-5,11-5,11-2) , Daniel Islam of Guyana (11-1,11-3,11-6) and Anaya Smith of Bermuda (11-5,11-9,11-8).

Among the Vincentian female representation, Deiriai Myers, who opened with a heavy loss to the eventual champion Jamaican Allyssa Mullings 1-11,1-11,1-11, rebounded to win her second and third matches in the Plate competition.

Deirai Myers outlasted her OECS teammate Abbyomi Maddox, 11-8, 11-8, 11-6, and stopped Madeleine Rose of Cayman Islands, 12-10, 12-10, 8-11, 11-1.

This placed Myers in the finals, but she fell short to Jamaican Ashley Lynch.

The Jamaican won 11-8, 12-14, 11-5, 11-7.

Deirai ‘s sister Thandi Myers was the opposite as she opened with a win against Madeleine Rose of Cayman Islands 11-5,11-7,11-3, but lost to eventual runner up Taylor Fernandez of Guyana 11-9, 3-11,2-11,3-11.

In the Classic Plate competition Thandi Myers defeated Jaime Edgehill of Trinidad, 11-9, 8-11, 13-11, 11-5, which ushered her to finals against Tiye Williams of Bermuda but the Vincentian was beaten, 11-9, 11-5, 11-4.

The final placing saw Deirai Myers finishing 10th in the Under-17, while Thandi Myers was 6th.

Reports say that it was the first time all Vincentian players placed in the top ten at a single competition. Guyana was the overall team champions taking both the male and female team titles.