Mekdeci, Fernandes top seeds at National Squash Championships

The curtains came down on the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its corporate sponsor Digicel for the second junior tournament for 2016, the Woodpecker Products Ltd Junior National Squash Championships which were held at the Georgetown Club Inc courts on Sunday.
Eleven champions were crowned with Benjamin Mekdeci and Taylor Fernandes being the top players on show by their capturing of the Under-19 titles.
Benjamin Mekdeci had to work surprising hard to overcome the challenge of Alec Melville winning in four games 8/11, 11/7, 11/3, 11/5

while Taylor Fernandes outplayed Larissa Wiltshire winning fairly comfortably in straight games 11/7, 11/8, 11/4.
In the Boys Under-9, Louis Da Silva defeated Shiloh Asregado 11/6, 11/6, 11/4 for first place while Chad De Abreu defeated Wade Beckles 11/1, 11/3, 11/6 to cop second; Asregado placed third.
For the Girls under-11, Paige Fernandes proved to be the winner while Beau Fernandes beat Isabella Ramjohn 11/2, 11/5, 11/4 to seal second place; Ramjohn settled for third.
Over in the Boys Under-11, Michael Alphonso proved to the champion as he defeated Mohyryan Baksh 11/3, 11/2, 11/7. Demetrius De Abreu beat Ethan Jonas 11/9, 11/8, 11/0 to seal second place while Jonas outplayed Baksh 11/8, 11/6, 11/7 for third place.
In the Girls Under-13, Abosaide Cadogan beat Haley Carpenter 11/9, 11/5, 11/3 for first place, Madison Fernandes secured second and Kirsten Gomes in third.
The Boys Under-13 saw the talented Shomari Wiltshire romping to victory by beating Samuel Ince-Carvahal 11/0, 11/2, 11/7, who placed second while Gianni Carpenter came third.
In the Boys Under-15 Shomari Wiltshire again outplayed his opponents for first place while Anthony Islam settled for second and Daniel Islam, third.
For the Girls Under-17 category, Makeda Harding defeated Rebecca Low 11/2, 11/9, 14/12 for the win while in the boys segment, Alex Cheeks beat Ritthew Saywack 13/11, 11/7, 11/7
At the end of the evening proceedings, Abosaide Cadogan and Michael Alphonso were voted the most improved girl and boy respectively while the most outstanding girl was Makeda Harding and the boy being Shomari Wiltshire