By Sean Devers
DEFENDING team champions Guyana returned to the Island of St Vincent where the inaugural junior CASA Championships were held in 1981 in an unsuccessfull attempt to defend their team title they won last year in Guyana.
Both the boys and girls teams again qualified for the team finals which were played last night.
In the Saturday morning session, the boys team beat Bermuda 3-1 while the girls defeated Bermuda 3-0 in their respective semi-final matches.

In the girls final Guyana lost 3-2 against Barbados in some very hard-fought games while the boys team fared even worse, going down 3-0 to Barbados boys.
Earlier in this tournament, Guyana had captured 10 medals including golds from Avery Arjoon, Louis Da Silva and Nicholas Verwey in the singles and another in the mixed doubles from Nicholas Verwey and Kirsten Gomes.

Kaylee Lowe, Mohyran Baksh and Kerstin Gomes won three silver medals for the Guyanese while Ethan Bulkan Micheal Alphonso and Justin Ten Pow won three bronze.
The girls team matches began on Friday with Guyana beating the host nation 5-0.
Gomes defeated Nadira Morgan 11-4, 11-3, 11-1, Safirah Summer beat Zoe Martin 11-2, 11-1, 11-4, Rylee Rodrigues got the better of Ciara George 11-6, 8-11, 11-4, 11-3, Avery Arjoon beat Naira-Skye John 11-1,11-1, 11-2 and Kaylee Lowe beat Caeli George 11-1,11-5 11-1.

In the evening session the Guyana girls beat Jamaica 3-2 as they got a walk over in their last match.
Gomes beat Savannah Thompson 4-11, 11-7, 11-2, 11-3; Jamaican Katherine Risden beat Summer 11-3, 11-3, 11-5; Mehar Trehan of Jamaica defeated Rodrigues 11-5, 11-3, 11-3 before Lowe beat Marley Price

The Guyana girls also beat the Cayman Islands 5-0
The boys beat the Cayman Islands 5-0, British Virgin Islands 4-1 and T&T 4-1
Guyana seniors are also the defending champions after winning the Senior CASA last year in Jamaica. They will now attempt to recapture that title in the Cayman Islands from August 21-26