Nigel Si­mon

Eu­ro­pean-based duo Chan­non Thomp­son and Sinead Jack were the lone play­ers in dou­ble-dig­its scor­ing, as host T&T blanked Ba­hamas 25-13, 25-13, 25-13 to end with a per­fect record of 4-0 in their Women's Di­vi­sion round-robin se­ries of the 15th Se­nior Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Cham­pi­onship at the Jean Pierre Com­plex, Mu­cu­rapo on Fri­day night.

T&T, dubbed the "Ca­lyp­so Spik­ers" and cham­pi­ons in 1996, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012, will now come up against ei­ther Ja­maica or Bar­ba­dos in to­day's fi­nal from 6 pm, as they seek to equal Bar­ba­dos six ti­tles.

The Ja­maicans were favourites to reach the fi­nal with a 2-1 record ahead of their fi­nal round-robin match with Bar­ba­dos, which en­tered last night's clash with a 1-2 record, and need­ing a lop­sided vic­to­ry to fin­ish ahead of its op­po­nent.

In yes­ter­day's oth­er women's match, Suri­name al­so en­tered with a 1-2 record like Bar­ba­dos, but had no chance to reach the fi­nal.

This was be­cause sec­ond-placed Ja­maica has 11 points, fol­lowed by Bar­ba­dos with six and Suri­name with four points. The lat­ter could on­ly reach a tal­ly of nine should it beat win­less Ba­hamas.

How­ev­er, on Fri­day night it was Thomp­son who led her team with 12 points, while Jack got ten and the pair of Jali­cia Ross-Ky­dd and Dar­lene Ramdin, six apiece for the four-time reign­ing cham­pi­ons, who dom­i­nat­ed the Ba­hami­ans in kills 32-12 and aces, 8-1, while hold­ing a small ad­van­tage on blocks 5-3.

The vis­i­tors al­so did not help their cause by giv­ing away 30 points on er­rors, while T&T com­mit­ted 23.

Ba­hamas, mean­while, a for­mer two-time cham­pi­on got three points each from cap­tain Krys­tel Rolle-Brown and Avoni Sey­mour.

The trio of Jan­nelle Cur­tis, Chryse Bain and Brit­tney De­veaux added two each in the loss. In Fri­day's open­ing women's en­counter, San­d­ri­na Hun­sel rat­tled up a tour­na­ment-high 27 points as Suri­name got its first win (3-1) to dent record six-time cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos chances of reach­ing the fi­nal.

Suri­name, af­ter los­ing the first set, ral­lied to se­cure a 22-25, 25-17, 27-25, 25-19 tri­umph for a 1-2 record, while the Bar­ba­di­ans, pre­vi­ous cham­pi­ons in 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004, al­so have a 1-2 record.

The tall fig­ure of Hun­sel had 18 kills, six aces and three blocks in her tal­ly, while Sigour­rney Kame added 14, in­clu­sive of 12 kills, and Chavelii Wip chipped in with 12, six com­ing on aces.

It was an over­all sol­id team ef­fort from Suri­name which held a slight ad­van­tage over Bar­ba­dos on spikes (44-40) and dom­i­nat­ed on ser­vice aces, 15-5, while com­mit­ting few er­rors as well, 30 to its op­po­nent, 34.

For Bar­ba­dos, which outscored Suri­name on blocks 11-6, Shari Matthews was once again the main scor­er with 26 points.

Cap­tain Tho­nya Joseph was the next best scor­er with eight, fol­lowed by Shani Lea­cock's sev­en and five from Ani­cia Wood in the loss which came nine min­utes shy of two hours.