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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Blake, Williams fifth in Guatemala

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Lo­cal duo, Si­mon Blake and Daneil Williams had to set­tle for fifth on the penul­ti­mate day of the third-leg of the NORCE­CA Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour, the Gatorade's Guatemala Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour­na­ment at Cam­po Marte Park, Guatemala City, Guatemala on Sat­ur­day.

The To­co-born pair was beat­en by Cubans Karell Pina and Ser­gio Gon­za­lez 16-21, 18-21 in their quar­ter­fi­nal en­counter.

Ear­li­er, the T&T play­ers whipped Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Luis Castil­lo and Alex Med­i­na 21-11, 21-14 in their fi­nal Pool C round-robin match for a 3-0 record and an au­to­mat­ic last-eight spot.

On Fri­day's open­ing day, Blake and Williams were one of six men's pair­ings to en­joy a 2-0 record.

Play­ing in a four-team Pool E round-robin se­ries, Williams and Blake, who were com­ing off a sev­enth-placed fin­ish from 13 teams at the sec­ond-leg Bo­ca Chi­ca Pres­i­dente Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour­na­ment, in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic last month, came from a set down to beat Guatemala-C Luis Tor­res and Mario Ramirez, 16-21, 21-11, 15-3 in 50 min­utes in their tour­na­ment open­er.

The T&T duo, who were al­so 11th out of 16 men's teams in the open­ing tour­na­ment of the sea­son, the fifth edi­tion of the Cay­man Is­lands Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour­na­ment then swept past Hon­durans, Je­sus Oli­va Quin­tanil­la and Manuel Ser­ra­no 21-17, 21-17.

In Pool D, Pi�a and Gon­za­lez stopped Car­los Ta­lav­era Es­co­bar/David Var­gas of El Sal­vador-A 21-14, 21-18 and Grant O'Gor­man/Sam Ped­low of Cana­da-A 25-23, 21-14 on Fri­day and de­feat­ed win­less Ba­hami­ans Ton­ny Si­mon and Prince'tanique Wil­son, 21-10, 21-9 for a 3-0 record as well.

In Pool C, the T&T Un­der-21 duo, Akim Bushe and Taran De­onath, end­ed bot­tom of the group with a 0-3 record af­ter los­ing their fi­nal match against Guatemala-B, Julio Re­ci­nos and Luis Gar­cia, 14-21, 4-21.

On Fri­day, Bushe and De­onath were beat­en by Mex­i­co's Lom­bar­do On­tiveros and Juan Vir­gen, 10-21, 9-21 and then against Cay­man Is­landers Richard Camp­bell and Dun­can Hamann, 12-21, 21-13, 8-15.

In the three oth­er quar­ter­fi­nals, Puer­to Ri­co-A, Rober­to Ro­driguez and Erik Had­dock beat Grant O'Gor­man and Samuel Ped­low of Cana­da-A 16-21, 21-18, 18-16 to set up a semi­fi­nal clash with On­tiveros/Vir­gen, 21-11, 21-8 win­ners over Quin­tanil­la and Ser­ra­no while USA-A, Slick Stafford and John May boot­ed host play­ers Andy Leonar­do and Er­ick Gar­ri­do 21-12, 22-20 and meet Pi�a and Gon­za­lez for a place in the gold medal match.

Among the women, T&T's El­ki Phillip and Ap­phia Glas­gow were 12th in their first tour­na­ment of the sea­son as well as play­ing as team-mates af­ter los­ing to Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Nairo­bi Agra­monte and Di­ana Peguero, 14-21, 9-21 in their round-of-16 match.

In their fi­nal Pool D round-robin match on Sat­u­rady, a must-win con­test, Phillip and Glas­gow bat­tled past Hon­durans, Gi­na Flo­res and Martha Eu­ce­da 20-22, 21-16, 18-16 in 53 min­utes to end with a 1-1 record for sec­ond spot be­hind USA-2, Emi­ly Day and Brit­tany Hochevar.

The Amer­i­cans beat the T&T women 8-21, 4-21 while Flo­res and Eu­ce­da, al­so suf­fered at the hands of the North Amer­i­cans, 5-21, 4-21.

It was the sec­ond win for Agra­monte and Peguero over a T&T team af­ter they de­feat­ed the T&T-B com­bi­na­tion of LaTeisha Joseph and Ki­ne­sha Mar­shall in their two Pool F meet­ing, 7-21, 8-21 by Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Nairo­bi Agra­monte.

Joseph and Mar­shall al­so fell to Cos­ta Ri­cans, Va­le­ria Va­len­ciano and Ang­ie Mon­tero, 18-21, 21-15, 15-1 to bow out of the tour­na­ment.

Yes­ter­day in the semis, the two women teams of USA met in the semi­fi­nals with de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Jen­ny Kropp and Whit­ney Pavlik USA-A against Hochevar and Day while host play­ers, Maria Jose Orel­lana and Lour­des Ramirez of Guatemala-A meet Ka­cie Mac­Tavish and Caleigh Whitak­er of Cana­da-A.

In the quar­ters round Kropp/Pavlik de­feat­ed Peguero and Agra­monte 21-9, 21-19; Hochevar/Day beat Vic­to­ria Al­tomare and So­phie Bukovec of Cana­da-B 21-19, 21-16; Orel­lana/Ramirez de­feat­ed Cay­man Is­lands' team of Wolfend­en/Alexan­der 21-16, 21-12, and Mac­Tavish/Whitak­er out­last­ed Nicaraguans Swan Men­doza and Elia Tor­res 21-11 in both sets.

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