“Superman” Lewis trounces Ferrari in opening event
Boxing’s ‘Superman’ Colin Lewis registered Guyana’s first win at the Commonwealth Games to kick off the event on a high note for the local contingent.
Lewis who has dominated the local boxing arena, brought his ‘A’ game to the Oxenford Arena in Australia where he squared off with Nathan Ferrari of St. Lucia.
‘Superman’ went into the match with high levels of confidence after defeating Ferrari twice before. The St. Lucian rival was no match for Lewis who breezed
Guyanese Collin ‘Superman’ Lewis (red) on the attack against his opponent
through the three round match delivering uppercut after uppercut. Eventually, Lewis convincingly won the 64kg category match by points 29-28, 29-28, 30-27, 27-30 and 29-28, resulting in a 4:1 ratio which was in the favor of the Guyanese boxer.
The Guyanese boxer will return to the ring on Sunday April 8, where he will match up against South Africa’s Sinethemba Blom.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Guyanese contingent has not found their footing as yet. In the pool, Andre Fowler finished in third place in his 50m butterfly heat with a time of 27.32s. Unfortunatley, his time was not good enough to make the top 16 cut.
In the table tennis arena, Guyana suffered losses to the dominant England team. In the men’s singles, Christopher Franklin was defeated 4-11, 3-11, 4-11 by Samuel Walker whilst Shemar Britton lost 5-11, 5-11, 6-11 by David McBeath. In the doubles, Britton and Nigel Bryan were trounced 1-11, 7-11, 5-11 by Paul Drinkhall and McBeath. On the women’s side, Trenace Lowe was lost 2-11, 9-11, 6-11 to Kelly Sibley and Natalie Cummings was outplayed 5-11, 5-11, 3-11 by Tin-Tin Ho. In the doubles, Cummings and Priscilla Greaves were defeated 1-11, 5-11, 3-11 by Sibley and Maria Tsaptsinos.
However, there is still a glimmer of hope for the Guyanese squad as Jamila Sanmoogan prepares to hit the pool for the 50m freestyle.
