T&T's top marksman Roger Daniel was unsuccessful in his bid for a medal in the Men's 50m Air Pistol, placing 11th in the event at the Jalisco Hunting Club in the Pan American Games, yesterday in Guadalajara, Mexico.Daniel, 40, recorded a score of 536 in the qualification round which was not good enough to help him advance to the final round as only the top eight move on.The soldier does not leave the 16th edition of the event empty-handed though as he has already picked up this country's first and only medal thus far at the Games, a silver in the 10m Air Pistol event on Sunday.At the Panama Velodrome, T&T's Njisane Phillip cycled with impeccable form to top the qualifying round of the Men's Sprint event and he did in style too as his time of 9.977 seconds, bettered the previous mark of 10.304 held by American Marty Nothstein which he established in Winnipeg, Canada in 1999.
T&T's women football team was edged by Colombia, 1-0, in its first preliminary round match at the Omnilife Stadium. Scoring the winner was Lady Patricia Andrade in the 19th minute.Rheann Chung gave up a 2-0 lead in her opening match against Ariel Hsing of the USA, to lose 4-2 in Group C of the Women's singles event at Code Alcalde.Chung won the first two sets 12-10, 12-10 but seemed to lose focus, faltering in the third set to go down 11-6.Things did not improve for her in the other three sets as she went down, 11-8, 11-1, 11-8.She rebounded though in her second match to beat Guatemalan Analdy Lopez, 4-3. Chung lost the first two sets 11-13 and 8-14, respectively, but bounced back to take the next three sets 14-11, 11-9 and 11-5. Lopez won the other set 8-11 but Chung was too good for her in the final set which ended 11-9 in favour of the T&T player.Her step-father Dexter St Louis had a similar 4-3 margin of victory over Peruvian Juan Acosta in the Men's singles, winning 3-11, 11-4, 11-3, 11-7, 7-11, 13-15, 11-7.
Another local shooter Robert John Auerbach will be back in action today to continue on the second day of the Men's Trap qualification round.Later, T&T's men's football team will take on Uruguay in its Group A opener at 1 pm.Also opening its account today will be T&T women's hockey team. The local unit will try to match-up against Argentina from 10 am. At the same time, sailor Andrew Lewis, who finished 11th and seventh in the first two races respectively on Monday, was up to late yesterday competing in two races. He will be back again in two more races today starting at 2 pm.