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Saturday, May 17, 2025

T&T overwhelms Guadeloupe 106-4 in U-21 World Netball Qualifiers

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Clayton Clarke
311 days ago
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National Under-21 netballers and the technical staff, physical trainer Roland Hamilton, from left, coach Kalifa Mc Collin-Lopez, assistant coach Crystal Ann George, Shaniya Morgan, Kerlene Johnson, Nekesha Gomes, captain Destiny Williams, Jenecia Goodridge, Kayleea Songui, Neisha Hyles, Shian Lewis, Xhane’ Gray, Jelisia Goodrige, Katty Ann Graham, Jada Hamilton, N’zinga Charles, Nichola Gill, Maikea Bramble, manager Vanessa Forde, and massage therapist Coreen Andrews, who are currently competing at the Americas Qualifiers for the 2025 Netball Youth World Cup in Guadeloupe, during a photo shoot at St Paul Street Complex in Port-of-Spain on June 19. Yesterday, T&T won its second match against the host country, 106-4.

National Under-21 netballers and the technical staff, physical trainer Roland Hamilton, from left, coach Kalifa Mc Collin-Lopez, assistant coach Crystal Ann George, Shaniya Morgan, Kerlene Johnson, Nekesha Gomes, captain Destiny Williams, Jenecia Goodridge, Kayleea Songui, Neisha Hyles, Shian Lewis, Xhane’ Gray, Jelisia Goodrige, Katty Ann Graham, Jada Hamilton, N’zinga Charles, Nichola Gill, Maikea Bramble, manager Vanessa Forde, and massage therapist Coreen Andrews, who are currently competing at the Americas Qualifiers for the 2025 Netball Youth World Cup in Guadeloupe, during a photo shoot at St Paul Street Complex in Port-of-Spain on June 19. Yesterday, T&T won its second match against the host country, 106-4.

Clayton Clarke

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


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