Nigel Si­mon

This coun­try's Ca­lyp­so net­ballers suf­fered an­oth­er set-back in their prepar­tions for the up­com­ing Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow, Scot­land af­ter a sec­ond loss on the trot against the Scot­tish This­tles, 32-44 at the Em­ri­ates Are­na, in Glas­gow, yes­ter­day.Go­ing in­to the match, the Ani­ka La Roche-Brice led T&T women were ea­ger to shrug off a 40-41 loss to the world 12th ranked Scot­land be­hind closed doors on Mon­day in their lone prac­tice match,

How­ev­er, it was not to be as the T&T women, com­ing off back-to-back wins in a Tri-Na­tion se­ries at home in Feb­ru­ary against Bar­ba­dos (35-32) and North­ern Ire­land (51-39) found them­selves in a hole at the end of the first 15-min­utes pe­ri­od and trailed, 6-17.The host cheered on by the home crowd con­tin­ued to dom­i­nate and push their ad­van­tage against the rough tack­ling "Ca­lyp­so net­ballers" to 28-14 as they full use of the many turn-overs by the vis­i­tors.

The third was much more of the same as both teams trad­ed goals at the end of which Scot­land led 38-22, and de­spite be­hing outscored in the fi­nal pe­ri­od 12-6 by a pumped up T&T, Scot­land cost­ed to a 44-34 win to end a two match in­ter­na­tion­al los­ing slide, 26-63 and 18-72 against world third ranked New Zealand.To­day, both teams will meet again at the same venue from 2 pm (TT time) while the third match which was card­ed for to­mor­row has been can­celled.At the Com­mon­wealth Games which comes off in Ju­ly/Au­gust, T&T will com­pete in a six-team Pool B which al­so com­pris­es world cham­pi­ons, Aus­tralia, Eng­land, South Africa, Wales and Bar­ba­dos while Scot­land is in Pool A with New Zealand, Ja­maica, Malawi, and North­ern Ire­land.