DESPITE a brilliant performance, Guyanese bantamweight pugilist Keevin Allicock could not progress beyond his quarter-final bout, while light welterweight Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis also suffered a quarter-final loss as the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games continued in Barranquilla, Colombia, yesterday.

Meanwhile, the Guyana National Men’s hockey team played their hearts out but lost 1-0 to Mexico in their semi-final matchup.

Taking to the ring first, Allicock faced El Salvador’s Christian Jimenez; it was a bout of energetic ‘pound for pound’ boxing with the momentum swinging both ways.

However, at the end of the three rounds, Jimenez was adjudged winner via split decision. The judges had scored 3-2 in favour of the El Salvadorian.

Lewis then took to the ring to face Mexican Roberto Zarinana Gomez. The latter was much more aggressive catching the lanky Lewis on quite a few occasions and as a result at the end of their light welterweight bout, the judges had scored 4-1 in favour of the Mexican.

HOCKEY
The National Men’s hockey team faced Cuba in the first semi-final and got off to a fairly good start. However, Cuba’s Carlos Consuegra managed to breach their defence in the 17th minute and swept home a field goal to put Cuba up 1-0.

The Guyanese fought back valiantly but could not find an equaliser before full-time and had to accept a loss. This means they will now face the loser of the Mexico-Trinidad and Tobago semi-final in the third-place playoff for the bronze medal.

The Guyana Women’s hockey team failed to repeat their victory over Jamaica in the qualifiers for CAC by losing in a penalty shootout after a 0-0 final score in regulation time on Thursday.

The Guyanese ladies battled well throughout the match and although they started slowly, had Jamaica in some trouble towards the end of the match.

The penalty shootout, however, was disappointing as Jamaica only needed four of their five attempts to secure the victory. The Guyanese strikers had failed to make good on any of their attempts.

Guyana are now left battling for the wooden spoon today against Guatemala.

SQUASH
The Guyana Women’s squash team of Ashley Khalil, Mary Fung-a-Fat and Taylor Fernandes defeated Trinidad 3-0 in their final match of the games.  This gave them a final placing of 5th overall.

The Guyana Men’s squash team of Sunil Seth, Jason-Ray Khalil and Nyron Joseph lost to the Cayman Islands by 1-2 to give them a 7/8 final placing.