T&T Un­der-20 net­ballers record­ed their sec­ond win at the 2025 Net­ball Youth World Cup Amer­i­c­as Qual­i­fiers cur­rent­ly tak­ing place in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guade­loupe.

The lo­cal team whipped hosts Guade­loupe 106-4 at the Paul Chon­chon Hall in the fi­nal match of the sec­ond day on Tues­day (Ju­ly 9) night. The red, white and black rep­re­sen­ta­tives showed lit­tle mer­cy for the Guade­lou­peans rac­ing to a 26-0 lead at the end of the first quar­ter. The home side was fi­nal­ly able to score with two min­utes and 20 sec­onds left in the sec­ond half to take the score to 46-1. They got in an­oth­er as the score­board at half­time read 46-2.

On the re­sump­tion, the "Ca­lyp­so Girls" con­tin­ued to dom­i­nate the en­counter ex­tend­ing the lead to 77-3 at the end of the penul­ti­mate quar­ter and sealed vic­to­ry by 102 goals to reg­is­ter the high­est score in the tour­na­ment to date.

The win was the sec­ond for the day for T&T as it de­feat­ed St Maarten 62-23 in the first match of the day, dur­ing the morn­ing ses­sion.

Goal At­tack Kat­ty Ann Gra­ham was on fire for the na­tion­al squad against Guade­loupe scor­ing 52 of her 63 at­tempts while goal-shoot­er Maikea Bram­ble im­pressed with 44 from 48.

Jel­lisa Goodridge sparkled with sev­en from as many tries and Shaniya Mor­gan net­ted three of four.

Goodridge (28/32) and Mor­gan (25/32) led the scor­ing in the win against St Maarten along with Bram­ble (3/5) and Gra­ham (6/9).

Head coach Kali­fa Mc Collin-Lopez was hap­py with the team's sec­ond tri­umph but wants the play­ers to im­prove.

"Sat­is­fy­ing but I am nev­er 100 per­cent sat­is­fied. We have to fo­cus on the im­prove­ments we had to make. We want­ed to, as best as we can, man­age the ath­letes. My ex­pec­ta­tions for the shoot­ers are very high."

Mc Collin-Lopez ex­plained that she has not lost sight of the re­main­ing match­es in the tour­na­ment, say­ing: "I still think that the ac­cu­ra­cy needs to be much bet­ter than it is, as the much more ex­pe­ri­enced teams will pun­ish us if we are not scor­ing."

She added that the re­main­ing match­es may be more in­tense.

"They (the play­ers) may think they are win­ning games and we (the staff) are quite hard on them (but) we are look­ing for­ward to the com­pe­ti­tion and how phys­i­cal it is go­ing to get. I think the sched­ule al­lows us to a steady in­cline to the tough­est match. We are look­ing to it and they are quite op­ti­mistic."

The for­mer Aus­tralian Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball League play­er said the lo­cal con­tin­gent has ad­just­ed well in Guade­loupe.

"The girls are man­ag­ing quite well. As­sis­tant coach Crys­tal Ann George (and I) we have built a great rap­port with the girls and they un­der­stand what is ex­pect­ed of them."

T&T was set to play An­tigua and Bar­bu­da late Wednes­day (Ju­ly 10) at 7 pm.

Favourites Ja­maica over­whelmed neigh­bours Cay­man Is­lands 71-9 in the first of the day yes­ter­day. An­tigua and Bar­bu­da got the bet­ter of St Maarten (32-22).

T&T will com­plete group play against Bar­ba­dos at 7 pm on Thurs­day. Cana­da and Grena­da will meet at 9 am fol­lowed by Bar­ba­dos and Guade­loupe from 11 am. Grena­da will re­turn to the court to face Ja­maica at 5 pm.

In Pool A are Ja­maica, Grena­da, Cay­man Is­lands and Cana­da while Pool B in­cludes T&T, Bar­ba­dos, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, St Maarten, and Guade­loupe. The top two teams in each pool will ad­vance to the semi­fi­nal round on Sat­ur­day (Ju­ly 13). The third-placed play-off and the fi­nal are card­ed for Sun­day (Ju­ly 14).

The top three fin­ish­ers will qual­i­fy to rep­re­sent the Amer­i­c­as re­gion at the 2025 Net­ball World Youth Cup in Gibral­tar from Sep­tem­ber 19-28.

T&T's Start­ing line-up vs Guade­loupe:

Maikea Bram­ble (GS), Kat­ty Ann Gra­ham (GA), Shi­an Lewis (C), Jelis­sa Goodridge (WA), N'zin­ga Charles (WD), Nichola Gill (GD), Des­tiny Williams (GK)

Sub­sti­tutes: Nekeisha Gomez, Kat­ty Ann Gra­ham, Ker­lene John­son, Shaniya Mor­gan, Kayleen Songius, cap­tain Des­tiny Williams.

Tech­ni­cal staff: Kali­fa Mc Collin-Lopez (coach), Crys­tal Ann George (as­sis­tant coach), Vanes­sa Forde (man­ag­er), Roland Hamil­ton (train­er), Coreen Ed­wards (pri­ma­ry care per­son).

Re­sults

Wednes­day

Ja­maica 71 vs Cay­man Is­lands 9

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da 32 vs St Maarten 22

Tues­day

T&T106 vs Guade­loupe 4

Bar­ba­dos 90 vs An­tigua and Bar­bu­da 10

T&T 62 vs St Maarten 23

Mon­day

Cana­da 35 vs Cay­man Is­lands 16

Bar­ba­dos 75 vs St Maarten 18

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da 50 vs Guade­loupe 5

Sched­ule

Wednes­day (Ju­ly 10)

Ja­maica vs Cana­da

T&T vs An­tigua and Bar­bu­da

Thurs­day (Ju­ly 11)

Grena­da vs Cana­da, 9 am

Bar­ba­dos vs Guade­loupe, 11 am

Ja­maica vs Grena­da, 5 pm

T&T vs Bar­ba­dos, 7 pm

Fri­day (Ju­ly 12)

Grena­da vs Cay­man Is­lands, 5 pm

St Maarten vs Guade­loupe, 7 pm

Sat­ur­day (Ju­ly 13)

7th/8th po­si­tion play off, 9 am

5th/6th po­si­tion play off, 11 am

Semi­fi­nal 1, 5 pm

Semi­fi­nal 2, 7 pm

Sun­day (Ju­ly 14)

Third place play off, 4 pm

Fi­nal, 6 pm

Clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny, 8 pm