COLIN ‘Superman’ Lewis was Guyana’s only shining light on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games, at Gold Coast, Australia since the other first-day acts failed to advance in their respective disciplines.

Lewis fought St Lucian Nathan Ferrari and it was the third meeting between the two, with Lewis, the Caribbean champion, winning the first two fights in the first round via knockouts.

However, yesterday, Lewis didn’t get the same results as the previous bouts but settled for out-boxing his St Lucian counterpart, winning every round, except the fourth in their light welterweight contest.

Lewis will face Sinethemba Blom of South Africa on Sunday in his quest to join the likes of Wesley Christmas (bronze), Winfield Braithwaite (gold) and C. Atherly (bronze) as the only fighters to each win a medal in the sport for Guyana at the Commonwealth Games.

Meanwhile, swimmer Andrew Fowler, despite posting a personal best, did not make it to the next round in the Men’s 50 metres butterfly.

Fowler bettered his entry time (28.19 secs) for the event when he posted 27.23 secs to finish third in his heat, but it wasn’t good enough to send him through.

Over in table tennis, players Trenace Lowe, Priscilla Greaves, Christopher Franklin, Natalie Cummings, Shemar Britton, Nigel Bryan and Joel Alleyne lost their Men’s and Women’s matches 3-0 to England.

Today, the men will play Ghana and the women match skills with Vanuatu.

In squash, Sunil Seth had defeated Barbados’ Shawn Simpson 3-1, but fell in straight games (3-1) to Australia’s Rex Hedrick which put him out of medal contention.

Mary Fung-A-Fat, Jason Khalil and Taylor Fernandes all suffered 3-0 defeats against their respective opposition, and will now play in the Plate tournament which starts today.

Khalil will play Jules Snagg from St Vincent and the Grenadines while Fernandes and Fung-A-Fat secured a bye to the quarter-final stage of the plate tournament. (Rawle Toney)