Adam Wy­att reg­is­tered a hat-trick to lead the Glen “Fi­do” Fran­cis-coached T&T Ju­nior (Un­der-21) “Ca­lyp­so Stick­men” to a con­vinc­ing 5-0 drub­bing of Guatemala for a sec­ond straight win in the Ju­nior Pan Am Chal­lenge at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Com­plex Hock­ey Cen­tre in Wildey, Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos, on Wednes­day (March 12).

Come-from-be­hind 2-1 win­ners over Guyana in their last out­ing on Mon­day to fol­low up on their 1-1 draw with host Bar­ba­dos, the ju­nior "Ca­lyp­so Stick­men" need­ed all three points to keep their hopes of a top-two fin­ish in the round-robin alive to con­test the gold medal match.

Sev­en min­utes in­to the con­test, Wy­att fired in the open­er from a penal­ty-cor­ner set play which proved to be the on­ly goal of the first 15-minute quar­ter.

Cameron Adam­son dou­bled T&T's lead in the 22nd and four min­utes lat­er, Wy­att got his sec­ond of the match from an­oth­er penal­ty cor­ner for a 3-0 half-time lead.

The third quar­ter was again dom­i­nat­ed by T&T but the goal spree nev­er ma­te­ri­alised with Nicholas White­man's 36th-minute penal­ty cor­ner the on­ly goal to push the mar­gin to 4-0 be­fore Wy­att com­plet­ed his hat-trick in the 59th minute to put the ic­ing on the 5-0 win which car­ried T&T's points tal­ly to sev­en from three match­es, two be­hind un­beat­en Brazil who clob­bered Bar­ba­dos 9-2 in yes­ter­day's late match.

Venezuela is third with six points af­ter a nar­row 1-0 win over Guyana, who stayed fourth with three points.

Speak­ing af­ter his team's vic­to­ry, Fran­cis said, "It was a good game for the guys as we dom­i­nat­ed in all de­part­ments of the game. We have to work on our penal­ty cor­ners and our fin­ish­ing oth­er than that it was a sol­id game over­all."

Look­ing ahead to their re­main­ing match­es against Puer­to Ri­co and Brazil, Fran­cis, a for­mer na­tion­al goal­keep­er, said, "If the guys play with a lit­tle more con­fi­dence we will do well. A few mi­nor im­prove­ments to make to our game and things will be good for to­mor­row's match."

On Thurs­day (March 13), T&T faces Venezuela from noon. A win for the Caribbean men will seal a spot in the gold medal en­counter and a birth at the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Paraguay this Au­gust.

In the oth­er men's match­es card­ed for to­day, Guyana plays Brazil at 2 pm fol­lowed by Guatemala and Bar­ba­dos from 4 pm.

Fol­low­ing to­mor­row's rest day, Brazil and T&T will clash in Sat­ur­day's open­er from 8 am, fol­lowed by Guatemala and Venezuela from 10 am, and Bar­ba­dos and Guyana at 2 pm.

Ca­lyp­so Stick­women miss out on Jr Pan Am Games

T&T U-21 women’s hock­ey team missed out on qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Paraguay in Au­gust af­ter a sur­pris­ing goal­less draw with cel­lar-placed Guatemala, yes­ter­day which end­ed hopes of a top two round-robin fin­ish.

With the drawn re­sult, the Kristin Thomp­son-coached “Ca­lyp­so Stick­women” moved to four points from four match­es and in the fourth po­si­tion on the six-team ta­ble, eight points adrift of leader Mex­i­co, who blanked Puer­to Ri­co 3-0 in their top two clash to se­cure their spot in the gold medal match with a max­i­mum of 12 points.

Guyana de­feat­ed Bar­ba­dos 1-0 to move to third with six points, leav­ing the host fifth with three points, two ahead of Guatemala with one match left for each team ahead of the play­offs.

On Thurs­day (March 13), is the rest day for the women be­fore they con­clude round-robin play to­mor­row with T&T and Guyana fac­ing off from noon fol­lowed by Guatemala against Puer­to Ri­co at 2 pm and host Bar­ba­dos up against Mex­i­co from 4 pm.

At the end of the com­pe­ti­tion in both the men's and women's cat­e­gories, the top two teams will con­test the gold medal match along with se­cur­ing the two spots avail­able to the 2025 Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Paraguay this Au­gust while third and fourth-placed round-robin fin­ish­ers will com­pete for the bronze.

Stand­ings

Men’s Div

Brazil 3 3 0 0 19 2 9

T&T 3 2 1 0 8 2 7

Venezuela 3 2 0 1 2 1 6

Guyana 3 1 0 2 3 3 3

Bar­ba­dos 3 0 1 2 3 11 1

Guatemala 3 0 0 3 0 16 0

Women’s Div

Teams P W D L F A Pts

Mex­i­co 4 4 0 0 34 0 12

Puer­to Ri­co 4 3 0 1 22 3 9

Guyana 4 2 0 2 5 9 6

T&T 4 1 1 2 2 22 4

Bar­ba­dos 4 1 0 3 7 9 3

Guatemala 4 0 1 3 0 27 1

Re­main­ing Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Chal­lenge sched­ule

Men

Thurs­day (march 13)

T&T vs Venezuela, 12 noon

Guyana vs Brazil, 2 pm

Guatemala vs Bar­ba­dos, 4 pm

Sat­ur­day (March 15)

Brazil vs T&T, 8 am

Guatemala vs Venezuela, 10 am

Bar­ba­dos vs Guyana, 2 pm

Sun­day (March 16)

5th Pool 1 vs 6th Pool 1 (5th Place), 8 am

3rd Pool 1 vs 4th Pool 1 (3rd Place), 12 noon

1st Pool 1 vs 2nd Pool 1 (1st Place), 4 pm

Women:

Fri­day (March 14)

T&T vs Guyana, 12 noon

Guatemala vs Puer­to Ri­co, 2 pm

Bar­ba­dos vs Mex­i­co, 4 pm

Sat­ur­day (March 15)

5th Pool 1 vs 6th Pool 1 (5th Place), 12 noon

Sun­day (March 16)

3rd Pool 1 vs 4th Pool 1 (3rd Place), 10 am

1st Pool 1 vs 2nd Pool 1 (1st Place), 2 pm