GUYANA continued its dominance in Caribbean Squash when the three-time defending champions won their fourth title, the 2024 Caribbean Senior CASA Championships at the Georgetown Club in Guyana on Saturday.
Team Guyana won last year in the Cayman Islands and in 2022 in Jamaica, while because of the COVID-19 pandemic no tournament was held in 2021 and 2020.

However, in 2019, the last time Guyana played at home, they won the title.
There was no tournament in 2018, while Barbados who finished second this year won their last title in 2017.

On Saturday morning the Guyana ladies beat Barbados in the team category before the men’s team defeated Trinidad & Tobago in the afternoon session to capture their eighth team title in the history of senior CASA.
Saturday the team finals were played with both Guyana Ladies and Men winning the team titles.

In the morning Guyana’s women team started inauspiciously, losing their first game when Mary Fung-a-Fat was beaten by Barbados’ Margot Prow 11-4,11-7, 11-2.
But her team-mates stepped up with Ashley Khalil, who partnered with Ashley DeGroot to take ‘Gold’ in the Women’s doubles, lost to Amandy Haywood in the opening game, 12-10.

However, the 2020 Caribbean Singles Champion came back with great intensity to beat the Bajan 11-5, 11-8 to win 2-1.
Up next was Ashley DeGroot who beat Sumairaa Suleman 11-7, 11-5, 11-6, before the Wiltshire sisters wrapped up the win against the feisty Bajan lasses.

Larissa, the younger of the two beat Eboni Grant 11-9,11-3,11-5 while her sibling had to fight harder for her win.
Jada Smith-Padmore took the first game 11-6 before Akeila won the next three games 11-4, 11-7,11-7.

In the afternoon session, Guyana would beat T&T 4-0 as Shomari Wilshire, third child of former Southern Caribbean
Champion Garfield Wiltshire, crushed Leonel Sorrel 11-0, 11- 2,11-2 to give his country a 1-0 lead without breaking a sweat.

Daniel Ince, the grandson of Coach Carl Ince made light work of Anthony Allum, winning; 11-0, 11-1, 11-2 before Jason Ray Khalil, the sibling of Ashley, was all over Nicholas Lequay 11-11- 1-11-1.
Sam Ince Carvahal, the younger grandson of Coach Ince, completed the demolition job over the men from Carnival Country.

Barbados finished above the Cayman Islands who ended in the third spot with Jamaica, T&T and Bermuda coming in that order.