Clay­ton Clarke

Heavy­weight box­er Tariq Ab­dul Haqq is set to win Trinidad and To­ba­go's fifth medal as he ad­vanced to the semi­fi­nals of the men's su­per­heavy­weight com­pe­ti­tion at the 19th Com­mon­wealth Games in In­dia yes­ter­day. On day sev­en, the CAC Games bronze medal­list got the bet­ter of Joseph Park­er of New Zealand in the quar­tern­fi­nals. Ab­dul Haqq was tied with Park­er 7:7 but got the nod on the tie-break­er. By mak­ing in­to the fi­nal four, he is gu­ran­teed at least a bronze medal. He will face Cameroon's Blaise Yep­mour to­day. For­mer world jump cham­pi­on Rhon­da Watkins was edged out of a medal in the women's long jump. Watkins was fourth with a best leap of 6.36 me­tres, well be­low her qual­i­fi­ca­tion mark of 6.56 es­tab­lished on Sat­ur­day.

The dis­tance was fur­ther than Cana­da's Al­ice Falaiye's 6.50 gold medal ef­fort. Watkins got off to a bad start with two foul jumps. She then leaped to 6.36 in the third round to make it in­to the top eight to en­sure three more at­tempts. How­ev­er, she did not im­prove, hit­ting the sand pit at 6.35 on her last ef­fort. Ayan­na Alexan­der, the triple jump sil­ver medal­list was 11th with 5.87 me­ters. Falaiye achieved her win­ning jump in the last round af­ter home-town girl Pra­jusha Mali­akkal held the lead from the first round. The 23-year-old In­di­an im­proved in each round to fin­ish at 6.47 me­tres. In third place was Falaiye's team-mae Tabia Charles with a 6.44 leap.

Em­manuel Cal­len­dar was sev­enth in the men's 200m fi­nals. He clocked 21.12 sec­onds to fin­ish well be­hind Leon Bap­tiste of Eng­land who won in 20.43 sec­onds, Ja­maica's Lan­ford Spencer (20.49 secs) and Chris­t­ian Mal­colm of Wales (20.52). Cal­len­dar start­ed strong­ly in lane two, but was be­hind com­ing in­to the straight and could not catch the lead­ers. Cal­len­dar was fourth in the semis in 21.05 sec­onds and ad­vanced as one of the fastest losers. Aleesh Bar­ber qual­i­fied for the fi­nals of the women's 100m hur­dles. She was sec­ond in heat two in 13.35 sec­onds fin­ish­ing be­hind An­gela White of Cana­da. Bar­ber will con­test the fi­nals to­day. TT's women's net­ballers gave their best per­for­mance of the tour­na­ment when they went down to Aus­tralia 62 - 34.

The Ca­lyp­so girls played with more de­ter­mi­na­tion which was lack­ing in pre­vi­ous games. The lo­cal girls were hop­ing to give coach Brid­get Adams a win for her birth­day which she cel­e­brat­ed yes­ter­day. Ear­li­er in the day, Allen was 15th in the men's 25 me­tre cen­tre fire pis­tol fi­nals with 264 points. His fel­low bronze medal­list Roger Daniel was three places be­hind in 18th with 258 points.

Day 7 Re­sults:

BOX­ING

Tariq Ab­dul Haqq beat Joseph Park­er (NZL) in the quar­ter­fi­nals of the men's su­per­heavy weight (+7 :7). In the semi­fi­nals will fight Blaise Yep­mou (CMR) to­day.

SHOOT­ING

Qual­i­fi­ca­tion-John Robert Auer­bach fin­ished 6th in the men's sin­gle trap (120 pts) to ad­vance to the fi­nal.

Fi­nals - 5th Auer­bach 138pts.

CY­CLING

M 168km Road race: 35th Emile Abra­ham.

TRACK AND FIELD

W Long Jump fi­nals: 4th Rhon­da Watkins 6.36m, 11th Ayan­na Alexan­der 5.87m

M 200m fi­nals: 7th Em­manuel Cal­len­dar 21.12 sec. Semis: Heat 1-4th Cal­len­dar 21.05

W 100m Hur­dles semis: Heat 2-2nd Alee­sha Bar­ber 13.35 sec.

Day 8 Sched­ule:

TRACK AND FIELD

5.35 pm (In­dia) 8.05 am (T&T): W 100m Hur­dles fi­nals Lane 5 Alee­sha Bar­ber

8.05 pm/10.35 am

M 4x100m re­lay Semi­fi­nals Heat2 Lane 1-T&T.

BOX­ING

5.30 pm/8 am M Su­per­heavy­weight(+91kg) Semi­fi­nal: Tariq Ab­dul Haqq vs Blaise Yep­mou of Cameroon. Guar­an­teed at least a bronze medal.

HOCK­EY

8.30 am/11 pm (last night) W 9th place match: T&T vs Malaysia.

NET­BALL

(Thya­graj Sports Com­plex) 11.30 am/2 am): W 7th place match: T&T vs Bar­ba­dos.

SHOOT­ING

10 am/1.30 am: M Pairs Skeet Robert John Auer­bach (com­pet­ing as a guest)

12 pm/2: am Sin­gle Bore Open 600 yards Stage 1- Justin Lall,

Nor­ris Dar­ryl Gomez

2.15 pm/4.45 am Sin­gle Bore Open 600 yards Stage 2.