T&T Un­der-21 net­ballers were de­feat­ed by Sin­ga­pore 67-58 in ex­tra time in their 13th to 16th semi­fi­nal play-off at the Net­ball World Youth Cup in Gibral­tar, on Fri­day.

The en­counter end­ed tied at 52-52 at the end of reg­u­la­tion time and had to be de­cid­ed in ex­tra time.

The Sin­ga­pore­ans net­ted the first goal of the match be­fore T&T re­spond­ed and went up 3-1. The Asian side pulled a five-goal (12-7) lead. How­ev­er, the lo­cal girls con­vert­ed their shots to cut the lead to one, 14-13, at the end of the first quar­ter.

On the re­sump­tion, the Kali­fa Mc Collin-coached team tied the score at 14-14 and en­gaged in goal-for-goal ex­change with match­ing score cards at 15-14, 16-16, 17-17, 18-18 and 19-19. Sin­ga­pore then re­gained the lead and was five points up at 30-25 thanks to their short and quick pass­ing ap­proach. The team in red, white and black was down 30-27 at half­time.

Cap­tain Maikea Bram­ble led the fight for T&T. The goal-shoot­er was con­vert­ing her at­tempts to keep her squad in con­tention for its sec­ond win of the tour­na­ment. How­ev­er, their op­po­nents were al­so hit­ting their shots as the gap opened up to sev­en at 44-37. Bram­ble re­spond­ed by nail­ing more goals to cut the deficit to five (44-39) at the end of the third pe­ri­od.

The lo­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives pushed again in the fi­nal quar­ter, cut­ting the mar­gin down to one (51-50), even­tu­al­ly ty­ing up the scores at 52 all, send­ing the match to ex­tra time to de­cide the win­ner.

Sin­ga­pore went in front 58-55 at the end of the sev­en-minute first pe­ri­od and outscored T&T 9-3 in the sec­ond pe­ri­od to win 67-58. Bram­ble fin­ished with 51 goals from 52 at­tempts, while open­ing goal-at­tack Ja­da Hamil­ton closed with six in 10 tries. Keiko Roy, who re­placed Hamil­ton as goal-at­tack in the fourth quar­ter, net­ted the oth­er goal from five at­tempts.

The loss was the fifth in the six match­es for the young "Ca­lyp­so Girls". The lone tri­umph was against Caribbean neigh­bours 58-33 while the team went to Fi­ji (53-40), Malawi (65-29) and South Africa (105-15) in Pool D be­fore bow­ing to Malaysia (67-34) on Thurs­day and Sin­ga­pore yes­ter­day in the sec­ond phase of the com­pe­ti­tion.

T&T will now face hosts Gibral­tar in the 15th/16th po­si­tion to­day. Gibral­tar was beat­en by Ton­ga 71-36.

Sin­ga­pore and Ton­ga will vie to de­cide the 13th and 14th places.

In more re­sults, in the fifth to eighth semi­fi­nal play-off, Ja­maica de­feat­ed Cook Ire­land 57-47 while Scot­land got the bet­ter of Malawi, 46-41.

In the ninth to 12th place semi­fi­nals, Samoa over­came Fi­ji 71-53 while Wales pre­vailed against Malaysia, 67-39.

In the main semi­fi­nals, reign­ing cham­pi­on New Zealand re­mained on course for its fifth ti­tle with a close 51-49 vic­to­ry over Eng­land, while Aus­tralia qual­i­fied for a chance for its fifth crown with a 67-36 tri­umph over South Africa.

T&T Squad

Maikea Bram­ble-GS, Nichola Gill-GK/GD/WD, Neke­sha Gomes-GD, Jeni­cia Goodridg-WA, Ja­da Hamil­ton-GA, Sophia Her­nan­dez-WD, Kalvinelle Roberts-GK, Keiko Roy-GA, Kaylea Songui-C,

Non start­ing-Rick­ibah Isaac, Ker­lene John­son, Aza­lia Olivierre, Makay­la Grant(re­serve)-GA.

Fri­day's re­sults Day 7

Semi­fi­nals

13th-16th place

Sin­ga­pore 67 vs T&T 58

Ton­ga 71 vs Gibral­tar 36

9th-12th place

Wales 67 vs Malaysia 39

Samoa 71 vs Fi­ji 53

5th-8th place

Ja­maica 57 vs Cook Is­lands 47

Scot­land 46 vs Malawi 43

1st-4th place

New Zealand 51 vs Eng­land 49

Aus­tralia 67 vs South Africa 36

Sat­ur­day's match­es - Day 8

17th-18th place

Bar­ba­dos vs North­ern Ire­land, 3 am

15th-16th place

T&T vs Gibral­tar, 5 am

13th-14th place

Ton­ga vs Sin­ga­pore, 7 am

11th-12th place

Malaysia vs Fi­ji, 9 am

9th-19th place

Wales vs Samoa, 11 am