-Jamaica win Boys U11 Doubles

THE Guyanese pair of Jasmine Billingy and Malachi Moore emerged victorious against their compatriots in the Mixed Double U-13 final in the Caribbean Regional Table Tennis Federation (CRTTF) Mini and Pre-Cadet Championships, which is set to conclude today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

In a thrilling all-Guyanese final, the eventual winners were able to get the better of talented youngsters, Ebo McNeil and Samara Sukhai, who had taken a two-nil lead.
Billingy and Moore were able to dig deep to win the last three games to finish ahead 3-2 in the best-in-five series.

They won 8-11, 4-11, 11-8, 11-6 and 11-9.
In the semi-finals, Billingy and Moore had gotten past Jamaicans, Logan Royes and Keeara Whyte 3-0 (11-4, 11-3 and 11-1), while McNeil and Sukhai defeated another Jamaican pair, Gmarco Smith and Kayan Denton 3-0 (13-11, 12-10 and 11-4).

Meanwhile, in the Boys U-11 Doubles final, Jamaicans Ajani Spencer and Anthony Bird got past the home team’s pair of Zion Hickerson and Kayden Muesa by a 3-1 margin (11-4, 11-6, 4-11 and 11-4).
In the semi-finals, Spencer and Bird had gotten the better of Trinidadian pair Liam Rattoo and Liam Walters, 3-0 (11-9, 11-7 and 11-3), while Hickerson and Meusa had defeated fellow Guyanese players, Narayan Goodridge and Kymani Haley 3-1 (6-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-2).

The competition is expected to conclude tomorrow with the Boys U-13 Doubles semi-finals and final, the Girls U-13 Doubles final, the Boys U-11 Singles final, the Girls U-11 Singles final, the Girls U-13 Singles final and the Boys U-13 Singles final.