THE individual segment of the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Junior Championships wrapped up yesterday afternoon at the Georgetown Club Courts, and locals Shomari Wiltshire, Nicholas Verwey and Avery Arjoon won gold in their respective categories.

Wiltshire lived up to expectations and won the Boys’ Under-19 gold in his final year as he defeated the number two seed, Barbadian Darien Benn, 11-6, 11-5, 11-5 in quite a clinical fashion.

However, in the Girls’ U-19, Guyana’s Kirsten Gomes battled hard but had to settle for silver as she went down to Barbadian Sumairaa Suleiman in a five-set thriller, where the Bajan came from behind to win 11-7, 11-4, 8-11, 4-11, 9-11.

Over in the Boys’ U-17, Verwey won his first Caribbean individual gold medal when he defeated countryman Michael Alphonso.

Verwey, the number-one seed, came from behind to win 10-12, 11-3, 11-7, 11-6, and top the former Caribbean Under-15 champion.

For the U-13 Girls, Arjoon won gold when she defeated Joise Thong of Trinidad and Tobago in a gruelling five-set match that went 8-11, 11-9, 11-9, 6-11, 11-9.

Attention now shifts to the team segment which starts this morning at both the Georgetown Club and the National Racquet Centre.

Guyana are in the hunt to regain the title after last winning the overall crown in 2016.