T&T's boys' pool "A" team bounced back from a 1-4 de­feat from Bermu­da to clinch a 3-2 win over hosts Ja­maica to ad­vance to the semi­fi­nal of the Caribbean Area Squash As­so­ci­a­tion Ju­nior Team Cham­pi­onships in Kingston on Tues­day. The T&T boys, who were seed­ed fourth, suf­fered the lost ear­li­er to Bermu­da when Nku and Man­dela Patrick, Nicholas Cad­dle, and Chris­t­ian Edghill all failed to win their games. Nku was squashed by D'Vario Thomp­son 3-1 (1-11, 5-11, 18-16, 5-11) while his old­er broth­er, Man­dela, went un­der to Noah Browne 3-0 (8-11, 2-11, 9-11). Cad­dle and Edghill both went down 3-0 to Dy­lan Pratt (3-11 in three sets) and Beau Or­chard (3-11, 10-12, 5-11) re­spec­tive­ly. T&T's on­ly vic­to­ry from this team round came from Jonathan Blanc, who got the bet­ter of Ryan Hop­kins 3-1 (14-12, 11-7, 5-11, 11-4).

But there was no need to de­spair, as the boys shrugged off their loss to tri­umph the home team in their next match. The Patrick broth­ers went back to their usu­al win­ning ways as they both won their match­es 3-0 with Nku beat­ing Jake Mah­food (11-5, 11-5, 12-10). Man­dela then ex­act­ed re­venge over Ashante Smith, who caused him to ex­it the quar­ter­fi­nal stage of the in­di­vid­ual com­po­nent of the Cham­pi­onships. Man­dela was the boss this time around how­ev­er, dis­card­ing Smith 11-6, 11-4, 11-9. It was a case of d&ea­cute;jà vu for Chad Sa­landy who trounced Stephan Mor­ri­son 11-9, 11-9, 3-11, 11-4.

Yes­ter­day evening the boys took on pool "B" win­ning team, Or­gan­i­sa­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS), which is seed­ed third. The girls con­tin­ued their un­beat­en form in the tour­na­ment by dom­i­nat­ing Bermu­da 4-1. The na­tion­al girls', who are seed­ed third, bare­ly gave their Bermu­dan op­po­nents a chance to re­ply in their match­es. Reign­ing two-time girls' un­der-17 cham­pi­on, Char­lotte Knag­gs, kicked things off with a 3-0 (11-5, 11-8, 11-6) win over Em­ma Keane. Marie Claire Bar­cant copped the girls' sec­ond win by dis­miss­ing Olivia Lind­sey 3-1 (11-8, 6-11, 11-5, 12-10). So far T&T's girls have won each of their round robin match­es. On Mon­day the girls cruised past both sec­ond-seed­ed Ja­maica and Bar­ba­dos (in­clud­ing two walkovers) in 4-1 sweeps. Yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, the girls took Guyana who is seed­ed first.