T&T’s beach hand­ball men’s team will be out for re­venge when they come up against round-robin sec­ond-placed fin­ish­ers Venezuela (4-1 and eight points) in one of two semi­fi­nals at the in­au­gur­al Un­der-23 Sand and Beach Games at the Can­cha Balon­mano—Mul­ti­sport Park in San­ta Mar­ta, Colom­bia from 11.30 am on Wednes­day.

This af­ter T&T won their must-win fi­nal round-robin clash with Colom­bia 2-0 (16-10, 24-14), on Tues­day, to fin­ish with a 2-3 win-loss record and four points, lev­el with Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Colom­bia.

How­ev­er, T&T by virtue of is pos­i­tive goal-dif­fer­ence of plus-7 (190-183) se­cured the third spot on the six-team round-robin ta­ble ahead of Colom­bia who fin­ished at mi­nus-one (183-184), with the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic fifth with a goal-dif­fer­ence of mi­nus 30 (161-191) while Mex­i­co who meets Colom­bia in the oth­er semi­fi­nal topped the stand­ings with a per­fect 5-0 mark and a max­i­mum of ten points af­ter de­feat­ing Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 2-0 (19-12, 26-16) in their fi­nal pool match.

Venezuela al­so won 2-0 (26-14, 18-12) over Puer­to Ri­co, who end­ed win­less (0-5) and will meet Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic in the fifth place play­off from 10.45 am to­day.

The win­ners of to­day's semi­fi­nal will face off in the fi­nal at 5.30 pm while the losers meet in the bronze medal en­counter at 4 pm.

Al­so to­day, T&T will be­gin its Beach Vol­ley­ball cam­paign with Bri­tany Choon and Tysan Selvon con­test­ing the women’s com­pe­ti­tion, and the pair of Nico­las Williams, and Joshua Per­saud in the men’s cat­e­go­ry at the San­ta Mar­ta Mul­ti­sport Park “500 años” in El Ro­dadero.

The T&T women meet Ja­maicans Alexan­dria Ash­man and Chevon­na Lewis from 8 am be­fore com­plet­ing their Group C sched­ule against El Sal­vadore­ans’ Gabriela Fu­nes and Sofia Ve­lasquez on Thurs­day from 8 am, fol­lowed by a 1.30 pm meet­ing with Cubans Gisel Ar­menteros, and Jen­nifer Rivera.

The T&T men start their Group C cam­paign against Nicaraguan broth­ers, Christo­pher Cas­cante, and Jef­fer­son Cas­cante at 9.30 am be­fore meet­ing US Vir­gin Is­lands’ An­dreas Bumps, and William Clements on Thurs­day from 11 am, and Cu­ra­caos’ Leonard El­se­vi­jf, and Tim­o­thy Van Hen­neigen from 3.45 pm.

At the end of the round-robin groups, the top two teams from each of the four groups will qual­i­fy for the quar­ter­fi­nals. T&T will al­so com­pete in surf­ing and open wa­ter swim­ming in Colom­bia.

Chef de Mis­sion: Lovie San­tana-Duke

So­cial me­dia Per­son­nel: Melanie Gul­ston

Med­ical Of­fi­cers: Kionne Franklyn (doc­tor), Brent El­der (mas­sage ther­a­pist)

Beach vol­ley­ball: Tysan Selvon, Bri­tany Choon, Joshua Per­saud, Nico­las Williams

Of­fi­cials: As­ma Charles, Collin Charles

Beach Hand­ball: Christoff Phillip, Akim Wills, Stephawn Solomon, De­rice Big­gart, Chad Phillip, Noel Cum­mings, Daneil Williams, Ronal­do Scott, Ka­reem Wylie, Ke­muel East­man

Of­fi­cials: Ken­win Go­den, Rhon­da Clarke, Marc Bis­nath

Surf­ing: Aiden Al­ba­da, Jude Gomez

Of­fi­cial: Ed­ward Al­ba­da

Open wa­ter swim­ming: Sha­nia David, Amelia Ra­jack, Nikoli Black­man, Zachary An­tho­ny

Of­fi­cial: Mau­rice Faria.