Women's box­er, Chimere Tay­lor, missed a first ever medal for T&T among her gen­der at the 28th Pan Amer­i­can Games in Toron­to, Cana­da yes­ter­day when she was kay­oed in her mid­dleweight (69-75 kg) bout by Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Yene­bier Guillen Ben­itez.Fight­ing at the Os­hawa Sports Cen­tre, 27-year-old Tay­lor was trail­ing 30-27 on points when she was floored by her op­po­nent with a minute and 20 sec­onds left in round two of their quar­ter­fi­nal, with the win­ner cer­tain of a bronze medal for the least.

In taek­won­do, Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Games bronze medal win­ner in 2010 and 2014, Do­ri­an Alexan­der, 31, start­ed well be­fore los­ing to Colom­bian Miguel Tre­jos, 5-11 in their three-round bat­tle, helped by four penal­ty points at the Mis­sis­sauga Sports Cen­tre.

Alexan­der, who fought at the 2009, 2011 and 2013 World Taek­won­do Cham­pi­onships and is a med­ical doc­tor by pro­fes­sion, won the first round 2-1, but in the sec­ond round Tre­jos turned up the heat and outscored his T&T op­po­nent 8-1 to take com­mand of the con­test, 9-3, be­fore the sec­ond round played out 2-all on points.

At the Chevro­let Beach Vol­ley­ball Cen­tre, Fa­bi­en Whit­field and Daneil William se­cured ninth spot via their de­fault win over Venezue­lans Jack­son Hen­riques and Je­sus Vil­lafane.On Sun­day night, cy­clist Njisane Phillip failed to add to his sil­ver medal in the Match Sprint when he end­ed fifth in the Men's Keirin which was con­test­ed over eighth laps at the Cis­co Mil­ton Pan Am Vele­drome.

In the morn­ing heats, Phillip was sec­ond in heat two be­hind Cana­da's Hugo Bar­rette while Ar­genti­na's Le­an­dro Bat­tas­so earned the oth­er qual­i­fy­ing spot to the fi­nal ahead of USA's Matt Bara­nos­ki.And in the oth­er heat, Colom­bian Fabi­an Puer­to won ahead of Venezuela's Her­sony Canelon and Suri­name's Jair Tjon En Fa, while Brazil's Flavio Cipri­ano was fourth and did not ad­vance.

How­ev­er, in the six-man ride off for the gold medal, Phillip could on­ly muster a fifth spot be­hind gold medal win­ner Puer­ta while Canelon took sil­ver and Bar­rette, bronze.Bot­tas­so was fourth while Tjon En Fa was sixth fol­lowed by Cipri­ano and Bara­nos­ki.At the An­gus Glen Golf Club, the lo­cal quar­tet of Sachin Ku­mar, Tal­in Ra­jen­dranath, Christi­na Fer­reira and Moni­fa com­plet­ed tough cam­paigns.

Ra­jen­dranath card­ed rounds of 74, 78 75 and four over 74 for a to­tal of +13 (301) and 24th, one spot above Ku­mar who had scores of 78, 76, 73 and 75 for a +14 (302) tal­ly.Fer­reira card­ed a fi­nal round of 82 (+10) to go with pre­vi­ous rounds of84, 85 and 79 a four-day to­tal of 330 (+42) an 26th while Sealy end­ed four places high­er af­ter she shot a fi­nal round of 83 (+11) to add to pre­vi­ous scores of 81, 77 and 77 for a com­bined 318 (+30) and joint 22nd with Bo­li­vian Na­talia So­ria.

And in the Mixed Event, the T&T quar­tet had rounds of 155, 153, 150 and 156 for +38 for 15th.At the Chevro­let Beach Vol­ley­ball Cen­tre, T&T's Ayana Dyette and Ma­li­ka David­son end­ed in 14th spot af­ter go­ing un­der to Guatemalans, Maria Jose Orel­lan and Blan­ca Re­ci­nos, 15-21, 16-21.

To­day (Tues­day), at the CIBC Hamil­ton Pan Am Soc­cer Sta­di­um, T&T men, beat­en 4-0 by Uruguay and 5-1 by Paraguay tack­le Mex­i­co from 5.35pm while at the Pan Am Hock­ey Field, the na­tion­al men's team come up against the host coun­try in their fi­nal quar­ter­fi­nal from 7.30pm. So far swim­mer George Bovell (50m freestyle bronze) and Phillip are the lone T&T ath­letes to medal at the games which steps in­to high gear this week with the start of the track and field events.