THE ANSA McAl/Lucozade Handicap squash tournament continued on Friday evening and yesterday morning with another round of exciting matches played at the Georgetown Club.
In the latest round of matches Michael Atherly defeated president of the GSA, David Fernandes, 2-1 in a match which went down to the wire. Atherly recovered from being 9/15, to take the second game 15/10, before narrowly hanging on to victory in the final game 22/20.
In Category A on Friday Dominic Collins beat Abosaide Cadogan 2-0 (15/7, 15/12), Demetrius DeAbreu beat Georgina Fernandes 2-0 (15/11, 15/1) and Maya Collins beat James Mekdeci 2-0 (15/9, 15/10). Demetrius DeAbreu beat Madison Fernandes 2-0 (15/12, 15/12) and Ethan Jonas beat Georgina Fernandes 2-1 (15/12, 0/15 15/13) while Michael Alphonso held on to a 2-1 victory over Ethan Jonas (11/15, 15/11, 15/10).
In the Open Category Taylor Fernandes beat Adam Alves 2-0 (15/7, 15/10), Regan Pollard with a handicap of -14 beat Alex Cheeks, who started with a handicap of 8, 2-0 (15/11, 15/11) in a dominant performance. In the other match Peter-Michael DeGroot dominated Nicholas Narain in a 2-0 win (15/12, 15/8).
Yesterday morning Kirsten Gomes beat Jason Gomes 2-1 (15/6, 9/15, 15/8). Mohryan Baksh beat Liam Carpenter 2-0 (15/11, 15/9) and Ashley DeGroot pulled off an impressive victory over Daniel Islam 2-0 (15/11, 15/13), with DeGroot starting 8 points behind.
The event, hosted by the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its corporate sponsor Digicel, ends today.