Bronze for Women’s Doubles Squash team at CAC Games

The first medals at this year’s Central American and Caribbean Games for Guyana came through Squash – Bronze. It was awarded to the pair of Ashley DeGroot and Ashley Khalil in the Women’s Doubles. They are joint third with Guatemala.
In the semifinal round –Guyana lost in two sets to Colombia, who went on to claim gold, defeating Mexico. The Mexicans on Wednesday had defeated Guatemala in the other semifinal match.
Yesterday, in the Women’s Team event –Guyana came against Jamaica –
Ashley Khalil opened with victory over Alyssa Mulings 11-8, 11-8, 11-6. Mary Fung-a-Fat played Tracy Binnie and came away with victory in three sets as well – 11-8, 11-8, 11-6.
Ashley DeGroot, however, was made to work for her victory over Mary Mahfood, coming away 3-2 in a see-saw battle.
DeGroot, who also played hockey at these games took the first set 11-9. Her counterpart roared back in the 2nd with a 3-11. DeGroot came back with an 11-9 win in the third to go down 8-11 in the fourth. She’d however claim an 11-5 win in the fifth and final set; the victory coming in 32 minutes.
Later in the day they played Colombia, who beat them in the Doubles semifinal and the result would be the same.
Colombia took a commanding 3-nil victory. Khalil lost to Catalina Pelaez in game one – 8-11, 2-11, ,8-11, Fung-A-Fat went down to Laura Tovar 4-11, 7-11, 7-11 and DeGrootwas outplayed by Karol Gonzalez 2-11, 5-11 in the first two sets.
The Guyanese would however fight back in the third set, leading 7-5 at one stage, but Gonzalez ended the battle coming through to win 11-8 in 18 minutes.
Tovar and Gonzalez formed the Women’s Doubles team that won the title on Wednesday.
Today the women face Barbados at 12:15hrs (Guyana Time).
On the male side – Alexander Arjoon, Sunil Seth and Jason-Ray Khalil were scheduled to play against St. Vincent and the Grenadines at 21:00hrs in Pool D.
Today the trio faces the British Virgin Islands at 10:00hrs.
In Badminton, Guyana’s pair of Jonathan Mangra and Narayan Ramdhani did not start their match against Guatemala, who was awarded a 2-Nil victory for the walk-over. It’s unclear the reason the pair did not start their match. Efforts to get a response from Team Guyana in Mexico were unsuccessful.
On the track, Winston George, Stephan James and sprinters Adam Harris and Jeremy Bascom will try for a team medal in the 4x100m relay on Friday at 14:40hrs (Guyana time).
Jamaica won the last 4x100m event in 2012 in 36.84 seconds.

(By Leeron Brumell)

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