Team Guyana emerged victors of the Junior Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) on Saturday afternoon at the Georgetown Club Courts. The Guyanese regained the title after claiming 20 points, finishing ahead of Barbados who finished with 16 points and Trinidad and Tobago who secured 10 points.
Bermuda (10 points), Jamaica (eight points), Cayman Islands (seven points), and British Virgin Islands (three points) rounded off the table.
Guyana’s Shomari Wiltshire in action
Team Captain Abosaide Cadogan led the way batting an injury, coming from behind to win 9-11, 11-8, 6-11, 13-11, 11-6.
Girls’ Under-19 silver medallist Kirsten Gomes won 11-7, 11-4, 7-11, 14-12 against Mia Todd. For the Guyanese boys, Shomari Wiltshire dispatched Barbados’s top player, and the tournament’s number two seed, Darien Benn 8-11, 11-6, 11-4, 11-7, Caribbean Under-17 Champion, Nicholas Verwey defeated Alex Stewart 11-9, 11-9, 11-8. Likewise did Shiloh Asregado and Samuel Ince-Carvalhal.
In the individual segment, Guyana won three gold medals compliments of Wiltshire, Verwey and Avery Arjoon, and Guyana finished with 12 medals, seven more than second-place Trinidad and Tobago.
The 2023 Junior CASA is likely to be held in St Vincent and the Grenadines or the Cayman Islands, while this year’s Senior CASA will be staged in Jamaica next month.
