Nigel Si­mon

Team cap­tain, Nolan Tash reg­is­terd a team-high 19 points as this coun­try's men's vol­ley­ball team won their sec­ond straight match at the 13th Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­caition Cham­pi­onship at the Is­may Sports Hall, Para­mari­bo, Suri­name, yes­ter­day. The Ca­lyp­so Spik­ers won in five sets, 25-18, 25-18, 27-29, 23-25, 15-9 over Guade­loupe to im­prove to a record of 2-0 in Pool B and max­i­mum four points. Af­ter a win­ning the first two set con­vinc­ing­ly and lead­ing the third, 19-16 T&T coach Gideon Dick­son de­cid­ed to ex­per­i­ment with his ros­ter and opt­ed to give his bench play­ers some time on the court.

How­ev­er, this move back­fired as Guade­loupe took full ad­van­tage of the chance gift­ed and won the third set, 27-29 and al­so won the fourth set, 23-25 to set up a fifth and de­cid­ing set where T&T bounced back and won 15-9 to clinch a quar­ter­fi­nal spot at least. Tash end­ed with 19 points and fel­low spik­er Jes­sel Davis added 15 for T&T who will meet the Ba­jans to­mor­row from 6 pm. Miss­ing from the T&T line-up was Sean Mor­ri­son due to food poi­son­ing

On Mon­day night, Suri­name women's team al­so im­proved to max­i­mum four points in Pool A af­ter beat­ing Nether­lands An­tilles 30-28, 25-22, 25-23.

Ja­maica women swept Do­mini­ca 25-15, 25-12, 25-14 in Pool A and ten-time cham­pi­ons, Bar­ba­dos won their first match against Ba­hamas 25-18, 25-14, 25-14 in Pool B. In the lone men's match on Mon­day, Ba­hamas eased past Ja­maica in Group A, 25-21, 25-17, 25-21. To­day, the T&T women, two-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons and three-time cham­pi­ons over­all meet Ba­hamas from 6 pm in their sec­ond match hav­ing de­feat­ed the US Vir­gin Is­lands in their Pool B open­er on Sun­day.