GSA Easter tournament
POWER House became the early frontrunners of the Guyana Squash Association’s (GSA) Annual Smalta Junior Team Tournament which continued at the Georgetown Club courts on Thursday evening.

According to reports, Power House edged Kungfu Panders 3-2 despite Lydia Alphonso’s heroics in coming from two games down to defeat the fast improving Travis Whitehead.

Power House owed their win to newcomer Remy Rodrigues, who, in his first tournament managed to outclass seasoned campaigner Nicholas Peters.

In the other match of the evening, Mitochondria and Gangsters are still tied at 2-2, with the match between Immanuel Barker and Adesing Trim still to decide the tie. This match was to have been completed last evening.

When the tournament got under way on Wednesday evening at the same venue, the 25 registered players were divided into five teams and started competing in a round-robin format which will end this evening.

The GSA chose this tournament to implement the new scoring system changes which have been adopted by the World Squash Federation and where games are now played to 11 points using point-a-rally scoring.

If there is a tie at 10-10, a player must then win by two points to claim the game.

In results from Wednesday’s matches, Assassins led Gangster 2-1 through victories from first string – Nicholas Narain who defeated Mary Fung-A-Fat 11-3, 11-7, 12-10 and third string – Jason Van Dyk who defeated Ricky Rodrigues 11-2, 11-1, 11-1.

Assassins’ fourth string – Alexander Cheeks however lost to Kristina Cheeks 8-11, 11-7, 6-11, 2-11.

On Thursday, Power House led Mitochondria 2-1 through victories from second string – Alysa Xavier who defeated Steven Xavier 11-3, 12-14, 13-11, 11-4 and fourth string – Patrick Fraser who beat Matthew Phang 11-7, 11-8, 12-10.

The team’s first string – Nyron Joseph lost to Keisha Jeffrey 6-11, 4-11, 7-11, while the match-ups between third string Remy Rodrigues v Akeila Wiltshire and fifth string Travis Whitehead v Immanuel Barker were to be completed last night.