GUYANA’S national squash team, currently competing at the 2010 Caribbean Junior Squash Championships in the Grand Cayman, experienced mixed fortunes on day two of the individual championships on Sunday. Guyana is the first country to guarantee itself a title with the top two seeds in the Girls’ Under 19 category – Keisha Jeffrey and Ashley Khalil living up to their billing by making it to the final, with Khalil narrowly missing her appointment when she was pushed to the limit by Jeffrey’s twin sister Kayla, in the semifinal which went the full five games.
Number two seed in the Under-17 category, Ashley deGroot, fell short of making it another all-Guyana final when she narrowly lost to Kristina Myren of the Cayman Islands in five, leaving number one seed and two-time Caribbean champion Mary Fung-A-Fat to restore order when she takes on Myren in the final which was played yesterday.
Number one seed in the Under-15 category, Victoria Arjoon, will be going for her fourth straight Caribbean title when she takes on number two seed in Trinidad and Tobago’s Charlotte Knaggs in the final.
The boys will be hoping to end their two-year drought in the individual championships, when Jason Ray Khalil and Jean-Claude Jeffrey take on Noah Browne and Nku Patrick in the Under-17 and U-15 finals respectively. The team event is scheduled to get under way at the completion of the individual event, with Guyana defending their Boys’, Girls’ and overall Team titles which they have won for the past two consecutive years.  
Complete results from Sunday’s matches
Girls’ Under-13
5 to 8 Playoffs – (2) Larissa Wiltshire defeated (3/4) Medeleine Rose (BER) 11-3, 11-5, 11-0
Semifinal – (3/4) Taylor Fernandes lost to (1) Alyssa Mullings (JAM) 3-11, 7-11, 7-11
Boys’ Under-13
5 to 8 Playoffs – Patrick Fraser lost to (5/8) Cameron Anderson (JAM) 7-11, 9-11, 8-11
Semifinal –  (5/8) Ben Mekdeci lost to (3/4) Julian Jervis (CAY) 2-11, 9-11, 4-11
Girls’ Under 15
5 to 8 Playoffs – (5/8) Akeila Wiltshire defeated (5/8) Gianna Miller-Alexander (OECS) 11-8, 11-6, 11-3
Semifinal – (1) Victoria Arjoon defeated (3/4) Emma Keane (BER) 11-2, 11-7, 11-7
Boys’ Under-15
Quarterfinals – (5/8) Nyron Joseph lost to (3/4) D’Vario Thompson (BER) 7-11, 11-6, 11-13, 13-15
Quarterfinals – (2) Jean-Claude Jeffrey defeated (5/8) Beckett Simmons (BER) 11-4, 11-2, 11-4
Semifinal –  (2) Jean-Claude Jeffrey defeated (5/8) David Mullings (JAM) 11-7, 11-5, 11-4
5 to 8 Playoffs –  (5/8) Nyron Joseph lost to (1) Julian Morrison (JAM) 6-11, 4-11, 11-7, 10-12
Girls’ Under-17
Semifinal – (1) Mary Fung-A-Fat defeated (5/8) Eilidh Bridgeman (CAY) 11-2, 11-3, 11-5
Semifinal – (2) Ashley deGroot lost to (3/4) Kristina Myren (CAY) 12-10, 7-11, 9-11, 11-7, 5-11
Boys’ Under-17
Semifinal –  (1) Jason Ray Khalil defeated Romario Constance (OECS) 11-9 11-5 11-5 
Girls’ Under-19
Semifinal –  (1) Keisha Jeffrey defeated (3/4) Brooke Burrowes (JAM) 11-8, 11-8, 11-6     
Semifinal – (2) Ashley Khalil defeated (3/4) Kayla Jeffrey 7-11, 12-10, 13-11, 5-11, 11-6.
Boys’ Under-19
Plate – Lee Fung-A-Fat defeated Dylan Davies (BAH) 11-2, 11-1, 8-11, 11-6
Plate – Jason Van Dyk defeated Cahrlie Krampf (OECS) 11-0, 11-1, 11-5
Plate – Jason Van Dyk defeated Lee Fung-A-Fat 11-9, 11-5, 11-7
Quarterfinals – (3) Alex Arjoon defeated (5/8) Jules Snagg (OECS) 9-11, 11-7, 13-11, 11-13, 11-5
Quarterfinals – (5/8) Deje Dias lost to (3/4) Kale Wilson (T&T) 9-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-7, 11-6       
Semifinal – (3) Alex Arjoon lost to (1) Cameron Stafford (CAY) 11-1 11-5 11-5       
5 to 8 Playoffs – (5/8) Deje Dias lost to (5/8) Alex Fraser (CAY) 5-11, 11-7, 1-11, 7-11.