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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Miguel, Morrison cops bronze in CAZOVA U-21 beach vball

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Nigel Simon
30 days ago
20250624
Jahreef Miguel and Jerome Morrison show off their bronze medal won in the inaugural CAZOVA Under-21 Beach Volleyball Championship Boys Division at Seven Miles Beach, Cayman Islands on Thursday.

Jahreef Miguel and Jerome Morrison show off their bronze medal won in the inaugural CAZOVA Under-21 Beach Volleyball Championship Boys Division at Seven Miles Beach, Cayman Islands on Thursday.

Courtesy NORCECA

T&T's Jahreef Miguel and Jerome Mor­ri­son se­cured the bronze medal when the in­au­gur­al CA­ZO­VA Un­der-21 Beach Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onship Boys Di­vi­sion end­ed at Sev­en Miles Beach, Cay­man Is­land on Thurs­day (June 19).

Af­ter suf­fer­ing heart-break­ing three-set semi­fi­nal de­feats, both the T&T and Ja­maica teams were ea­ger to end their cam­paign on a pos­i­tive note.

How­ev­er, it was the T&T pair of Miguel and Mor­ri­son who tri­umphed via a strong per­for­mance to de­feat Ja­maica’s Love-Let Blake and Ithran Soft­ley in straight sets, 21-15, 21-12, to join the top two teams of Bar­ba­dos and Cay­man Is­lands as qual­i­fiers to the NORCE­CA Qual­i­fi­er Tour­na­ment for the World Cham­pi­onship.

In the gold medal match, Nkoya Williams and Aaron Tay­lor of Bar­ba­dos pre­vailed over Cay­man Is­lands’ Stephen Wat­son and Dy­lan Lynee in three sets.

William and Tay­lor bounced back af­ter drop­ping the first set, win­ning the sec­ond and then seal­ing the match when an in­jury forced their op­po­nents to with­draw, with a fi­nal score of 19-21, 21-13, 15-0.

Ear­li­er on in the semi­fi­nals, Wat­son and Lynee ral­lied af­ter drop­ping the first set, over­com­ing Miguel and Mor­ri­son 21-23, 21-15, 15-8 to ad­vance to the fi­nal while Williams and Tay­lor staged a come­back to de­feat Blake and Soft­ley in a thrilling three-set match, 16-21, 21-19, 15-6 as well.

When the six-team tour­na­ment served off with pool play, Williams Du­ty and Dim­itri Car­de­nas opened with a straight-sets win over Blake and Soft­ley 21-15, 21-17 in Pool B, but fell to Miguel and Mor­ri­son 13-21, 15-21, who went on to top the group af­ter al­so Blake and Soft­ley 21-19, 21-14.

Wat­son and Lynee se­cured two vic­to­ries in Pool A, de­feat­ing the US Vir­gin Is­lands’ Ar­mani An­der­son and Aden Ro­jas 21-14, 21-6 be­fore edg­ing Williams and Tay­lor 15-21, 21-19, 15-12.

The Bar­ba­di­ans bounced back with a win over the US Vir­gin Is­lands 21-13, 22-20 to fin­ish sec­ond in the group be­fore go­ing on to claim gold.

An­der­son and Ro­jas over­came a three-set bat­tle 17-21, 21-16, 15-8 against Du­ty and Car­de­nas for fifth place.

John­son, Roberts fourth in Girls U-21

The lo­cal women's team of L'fe Roberts and Mee­ka John­son fell one win short of the bronze medal af­ter go­ing un­der to An­jia De­lapen­ha and Joan­na Robin­son of Cay­man Is­lands 18-21, 6-21.

De­spite the de­feat, Roberts and John­son earned a spot in the NORCE­CA Qual­i­fi­er Tour­na­ment for the World Cham­pi­onship along­side Cay­man Is­lands, and Bar­ba­dos due to the host hav­ing two teams fin­ish among the top three.

In a thrilling dis­play of skill and re­silience on home sand, Bri­an­na De­lapen­ha and Lu­na Ebanks clinched the women’s gold medal when they edged out Bar­ba­dos’ Des­tiny Layne and Sier­ra Ray­side in a hard-fought three-set fi­nal, 21-10, 14-21, 15-9.

Layne and Ray­side se­cured their spot in the fi­nal with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Roberts and John­son 21-9, 17-21, 15-9 while De­lapen­ha and Ebanks tri­umphed in the all-Cay­man Is­lands semi­fi­nal show­down, ral­ly­ing past De­lapen­ha and Robin­son 18-21, 21-19, 15-5.

In pool play ac­tion, both Cay­man Is­lands' teams de­liv­ered dom­i­nant per­for­mances to top their re­spec­tive groups and ad­vanced with con­fi­dence.

In Pool A, De­lapen­ha and Robin­son over­came a strong chal­lenge from Layne and Ray­side 21-15, 18-21, 15-10, be­fore cruis­ing past Ja­maica’s Brandy Mc­Carthy and Damia Sib­blies 21-5, 21-9 while in Pool B, De­lapen­ha and Ebanks were equal­ly im­pres­sive, de­feat­ing the US Vir­gin Is­lands’ Brook­lyn Dono­van and D’Keisha Jor­dan 21-9, 21-9, and fol­low­ing up with an­oth­er straight sets win over Roberts and John­son 21-19, 21-13.

John­son and Roberts end­ed in the sec­ond spot in the pool via their 21-13, 22-20 de­feat of Dono­van and Jor­dan.

The pair of Mc­Carthy and Sib­blies fin­ished fifth place with a 21-11, 21-15 vic­to­ry over Jor­dan and Dono­van.


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