The Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) cap­tured two of the three Fast5 ti­tles up for grabs in the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League over the week­end.

Play­ing at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua, UTT on Sat­ur­day de­fend­ed its Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion crown, won the Cham­pi­onship ho­n­ours and the fol­low­ing day, placed sec­ond in the Al­ter­na­tive cat­e­go­ry.

The Uni­ver­si­ty team led by shoot­ing from goal-shoot­er Kali­fa Mc Collin-Lopez and goal-at­tack Shaniya Mor­gan, dom­i­nat­ed the Pre­mier­ship Fast5 com­pe­ti­tion. The for­mat in­clud­ed the win­ners moved to the win­ning brack­et and losers to the los­ing brack­et still with a chance to progress to the fi­nal in the first round. The game is played with five play­ers in­stead of the usu­al sev­en and there is no lim­it to sub­sti­tu­tions, which can be made at any time dur­ing the match. The win­ner on ei­ther side of the brack­ets meets in the fi­nal.

In the open­ing round, UTT beat Jabloteh, 44-8 to in­to the win­ners' brack­et while Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) Sparks end­ed up in the losers' brack­et af­ter falling to MIC, 47-9. The win­ners' brack­et semi­fi­nal saw UTT ease past MIC, 52-20, to reach the fi­nal while UTC up­staged Jabloteh, 24-17 to be­come the oth­er fi­nal­ist.

In the ti­tle match, UTT blew away UTC, 51-12. This af­ter lead­ing at the end of each quar­ter, 8-0 in the first, 22-1 at the half and 35-6 in the third be­fore seal­ing the huge 39-goal win and re­tain­ing the Fast5 ti­tle. In the shoot­ing cir­cle for UTC in the lop­sided ti­tle match were Crys­tal Noel-Cock­burn (goal-shoot­er), and Gen­e­sis Clif­ford and Lil­i­ah Matthews, who shared the goal-at­tack bib.

In the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion, UTT with shoot­ing from Aquila Blugh (goal-shoot­er) and goal-at­tacks Jelis­sa Goodridge and George-Ann Hors­ford, earned the Fast5 ti­tle af­ter beat­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), 30-14.

In the bat­tle of the uni­ver­si­ties, UWI held a nar­row one-goal (9-8) lead at the end of the first quar­ter thanks to shoot­ers Maikea Bram­ble (GS) and Tis­han­na Alex­is (GA). UTT though fought back and se­cured a close 13-11 ad­van­tage at half­time. How­ev­er, UTT had its best shoot­ing quar­ter in the third ses­sion scor­ing 10 com­pared to UWI's two to pull fur­ther ahead, 23-13, head­ing in­to the fourth pe­ri­od. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, UWI could not make a come­back and set­tled for the 16-goal de­feat.

The Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion fi­nal turned out to be the clos­est of the three ti­tle match­es with De­fence Force emerg­ing with a 26-24 win over UTT on Sun­day.

Adri­an­na Moreno and Aaliyah Davis, who shared the goal-shoot­ers bib and goal-at­tack Sydele Wise­man had UTT nar­row­ly ahead in the first two quar­ters, 6-5 in the open­ing stan­za and 1-13 at the halfway mark. How­ev­er, De­fence Force ral­lied back and took a 25-18 lead in the third. UTT fought back in the fourth and fi­nal pe­ri­od, outscor­ing the army/coast guard com­bi­na­tion unit, 6-1, but it was not enough and lost by two goals.

Shoot­ing for the win­ning De­fence Force team were goal-shoot­er Nick­eisha Pe­ters-Williams and goal-at­tacks Maria LaFou­cade and Di­a­mond Sobers.

Re­sults

Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion

Fi­nal

UTT 51 vs UTC 12. Quar­ter scores: 1st 8-0, 2nd 22-1, 3rd 35-6 (All in favour of UTT)

Semi­fi­nals

Win­ners brack­ets: UTT 52 vs MIC 20

Losers brack­ets: UTC 24 vs Jabloteh 17

First round

UTT 44 vs Jabloteh 8

MIC 47 vs UTC 9

Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion

Fi­nal

UTT 30 vs UWI 14. Quar­ter scores: 1st 9-8 (UWI), 2nd 13-11 (UTT), 3rd 23-13 (UTT)

Semi­fi­nals

Win­ners brack­et: UTT 23 vs De­fence Force 14

Losers brack­et: UWI 28 vs Bermudez 11

Quaarter­fi­nals

Win­ners brack­et

Po­lice 9 vs UTT 29

De­fence Force 22 vs MIC 6

Losers brack­et

Polic 26 vs UWI 30

Bermudez 15 vs PNYC 13

First round

UWI 14 vs UTT 18

De­fence Force vs 21 vs Bermudez 15

MIC 15 vs PNYC 14

Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion

Fi­nal: UTT 24 vs De­fence Force 26. Quar­ter scores: 1st 6-5 (UTT), 2nd 14-13 (UTT), 3rd 25-18 (De­fence Force)

Semi­fi­nals

Win­ners brack­et: Fire 16 vs De­fence Force 19

Losers brack­et: UTT 26 vs TT Post 8

Quar­ter­fi­nals

Win­ners brack­et

USC 15 vs Fire 18

De­fence Force 13 vs UTC 6

Losers brack­et

Po­lice 2 vs UTT 20

PNYC 3 VS TT Post 7

First round

USC vs Po­lice. USC won by de­fault

UTT 11 vs Fire 20

De­fence Force 22 vs PNYC 3

TT Post 4 vs UTC 12