NYRON Joseph and Larissa Wiltshire shone brightly last Sunday to win the male `A’ division and female `B’ division categories respectively of the Guyana Squash Association’s (GSA) Farfan and Mendes/Digicel-sponsored Junior Christmas Squash Tournament at the Georgetown Club Inc. squash courts.

The match of the day featured the top two players in category `A’ where Joseph and Ben Mekdeci faced off in the final of the category.
Mekdeci went out like a man possessed and easily won the first game 11-5 and again moved out front in game two and was up 10–8 game ball but Joseph won the next four points to win the game 12–10. The next game was also extremely close but Joseph prevailed to win it 11–9.
The loss of that game seemed to have taken all of the fight out of Mekdeci as Joseph easily won the fourth game 11–3.
Larissa Wiltshire came out on top in her category after defeating Taylor Fernandes 11-7, 11-6, 11– 6. Fernandes subsequently defeated Daniel Islam 11–7, 11–6, 7–11, 11-2, but had to settle for third place behind Shomari Wiltshire, while Matthew Phang finished fourth.
In category `A’, Mekdeci ended second, while Akeila Wiltshire who defeated Alec Melville 11–5, 13–11, 11–3, placed third.
Another epic battle took place between Maya Collins and Makeda Harding in category `C’.
Collins won the first game 13–11but Harding won the second game 11–8 and also the third 11–4. Collins, however, did not give up and fought hard to win the fourth game 11–9.
The fifth game went back and forth but Harding eventually prevailed to win 11–9.
In other results, Mohyryan Baksh beat Paige Fernandes 11-8, 9–11,11-7; Reau Fernandes defeated Isabella Ramjohn 18–16, 23–21 and Teija Edwards overcame Geovanna Dos Santos 11–9, 12-10. All in category `H’ matches.
In category `G’, Samuel Ince-Carrahal beat Jason Gomes 11–9,11-3 and Liam Carpenter got the better of Chad De Abreu 11–7, 6–11, 11-5.
In category `F’, Gareth Da Silva thrashed Halley Carpenter 11–7, 11–7; Nathan Rahaman whipped Gareth Da Silva 8–11, 11–3, 11-7 and also Aliyah Persaud 11–5, 11-8.
Category `E’ saw Zachary Persaud crush Madison Fernandes 11–8, 11-3, 11-4, 11-8 and also Nechemiyah Levans 10–12, 11–8,11–3.
Levans also went down to Kristen Gomes who won the game 7-11, 11-6, 11-13 and Madison Fernandes 11–4, 11-8.
In the category `D’ competition Demetrius De Abreu lost to John Phang 7–11, 8–11, 1-11 and Gianni Carpenter 11–2, 3–11, 11–4, 11-9, while John Phang beat Dominic Collins 11–7, 11–8, 13-11.
Rebecca Low defeated Jael Gaskin 11–6, 11–6, 6–11, 8–11, 11-1 in a category `C’ contest, while in the same category, Maya Collins outplayed Gaskin 10–12, 11–9, 11–3, 3–11, 11–5, but lost to Makeda Harding who won the game 13-11, 8-11, 4-11, 11-9,9-11.
Anthony Islam was adjudged the Most Improved Boy, while Kristen Gomes was adjudged the winner on the distaff side.
The Most Outstanding Boy and Girl awards went to Joseph and Larissa Wiltshire.