FRIGATE BAY, St Kitts (CMC) – Puerto Rico logged a near sweep of all titles as the Junior Caribbean Table Tennis Championship ended this past weekend at the Marriott Dome.

It took an Under-18 Boys’ doubles triumph by Jamaicans Simon Tomlinson and Don-Walker Petinaud to deny Puerto Rico an amazing 100 per cent title success at the one-week championship.

The Puerto Ricans, who collected all four gold medals in the team events – Under-18 boys and girls and U-15 girls and boys – last week, continued to advertise their dominance with a plethora of individual titles, a whopping 11 of the 12 gold medals at stake in the singles and doubles events.

Jamaica delivered the only blemish on Puerto Rico’s campaign here, posting the finalists in the U-18 Boys’ doubles final.

Tomlinson and Petinaud outplayed their Jamaican colleagues Kareem Flowers and Michael in the final, taking the title 14-12, 11-5, 9-11, 11-7.

Jamaica finished overall runners-up and Guyana placed third to the Puerto Ricans, who won 15 of the 16 categories contested.

Maria Maldonado and Brian Diaz shared the U-18 singles titles.

In a titanic battle for the Girls’ U-18 crown, Maldonado rallied from 1-3 down to defeat Jamaican Yvonne Foster 10-12, 11-5, 7-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-6.

Diaz outplayed Anthony Rivera 11-7, 11-9, 13-11, 11-2 in an all-Puerto Rico U-18 Boys’ final.

With the exception of the U-15 Girls’ doubles final, all other closing finals featured all-Puerto Rico matches.

Melanie Diaz and Delanie Rios linked up to beat Guyanese Adielle Rosheuvel and Chelsea Edghill 11-5, 113, 11-7 in the U-15 Girls’ doubles finals.