Cap­tain Ki­une Fletch­er was al­most un­stop­pable as she fired six-time win­ners Trinidad and To­ba­go to a 3-0 (25-15, 25-13, 25-16) vic­to­ry over Guade­loupe for their first win in two match­es at the 2019 Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Ju­nior (Un­der-20) Women’s Cham­pi­onship here at La Ville Riv­iere-Salee Palais Des Sport.

Swept aside by Bar­ba­dos in their three-team Pool B open­er on Sun­day, T&T looked a far dif­fer­ent team and dom­i­nat­ed all as­pects of the match on Mon­day, led by Fletch­er’s 22 points.

Shan­ice Cot­toy, who was in­tro­duced to the start­ing line-up yes­ter­day and De­siree Si­mon chipped in with six points each for T&T, cham­pi­ons in 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011/2012, while Zhane Marie Leza­ma added five.

Over­all, it was a bet­ter dis­play for T&T, who outscored Guade­loupe 27-14 in spikes and 15-6 in ser­vice aces while on­ly com­mit­ting 19 er­rors to their op­po­nent’s 31.

Guade­loupe, who outscored T&T 5-2 on blocks, may have been slight­ly un­der­pre­pared as their prepa­ra­tions for their first match were great­ly ham­pered be­cause they were un­able to train on Sun­day due to a mix-up with time al­lot­ment at the list­ed venue.

Fanie Lewis still got six points and Tengy Jer­ni­val and Teha Mes­li­er De Ro­can four in the loss for Guade­loupe.

With the win, T&T end­ed with a 1-1 record and five points, lev­el with three-time run­ners-up Bar­ba­dos, who can ad­vance straight to the se­mi-fi­nals as pool win­ners with vic­to­ry over Guade­loupe to­day from 6 pm.

The sec­ond and third-placed teams in the pool will con­test the cross-over quar­ter­fi­nals.

Speak­ing af­ter the win, Fletch­er said she was hap­py her team man­aged to re­group and play a much-im­proved match than in their open­er.

Coach Nichol­son Drakes added, “We start­ed with a loss and now we have se­cured our first win and we aim to con­tin­ue to grow from strength to strength in each match.” —Nigel Si­mon