SVG fail in bid to retain subregional domino title
A new White Oak OECS Domino Pairs Champion was crowned last Saturday night at the Octagon Bar and Restaurant, located at the Diamond Industrial Estate site, after host St Vincent and the Grenadines failed in its quest to make it two in a row.{{more}}
The Vincentian pair of Joel Pompey and Alex Lewis, after side-stepping St Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda, then faced off with the Dominicans Anselm and Lennard St Bernard, in what was their acid test.
Pompey and Lewis fought gallantly in the third game to win the match 2-1, one step away from being crowned winners again.
But they met an unexpected bump in the St Maarten pair of Louis St Claire and Reuben Prince, who defeated them in straight sets, 2-0.
Dominica, though, had swept St Maarten, to leave the three teams on eight points each.
When the games were counted, it was the St Bernard brothers who tipped the scale with 65; St Claire and Prince chalked up 63; and Pompey and Lewis registered 60.
The Dominicans were in glee as they pocketed the US$3,000 that was at stake, as there were no places for any consolation.
But docking in at fourth place with two wins was the Antiguan pair of lone female representative Amy Lake and Michael Freeland, while St Kitts and Nevisâ Steve Flemming and Carl Francis had a solitary win versus Grenadaâs Kerry Mc Queen and Andre Allard, who were winless.
The St Bernard brothers were returning to the top after pouching the title on their home territory in 2012.
Dominica held on to the crown in 2013 in Grenada, but that time, another combination of brothers Roger and Kirth Abraham, did it for them.
St Vincent and the Grenadines prevented a three straight for Dominica, when Pompey and Lewis laid claim to fame in St Kitts and Nevis in 2014.(RT)
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