Na­tion­al women's beach vol­ley­ball duo Suraya Chase and Phyle­cia Arm­strong end­ed in the 12th po­si­tion of 15 teams while com­pa­tri­ots Brit­ney Choon and Tsyan Selvon end­ed 14th as the fourth leg of the NORCE­CA Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour end­ed at Playa Los Corales in Pun­ta Cana, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Sun­day.

Com­pet­ing in the play­offs for the low­er po­si­tion in the tour­na­ment, Chase and Arm­strong were first out­played 9-21, 11-21 by Cana­da’s Lea Monkhouse and Marie-Alex Bélanger in their ninth to 12th match-up and fol­low­ing this with an­oth­er loss to the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic duo of Crismil Pa­ni­agua, and Nal­lelin Taveras 17-21, 5-21 in just 34 min­utes in their bat­tle for the 11th po­si­tion.

Choon and Selvon de­feat­ed Grena­da’s Ke­shan­ice Mitchell and Thor­nia Mitchell 21-11, 20-22, 15-10 in their 13th to 16th semi­fi­nal, but with a chance to end on a win­ning note, the sec­ond T&T women's team suf­fered a 6-21, 14-21 loss to El Sal­vadore­ans’ Kathya Vasquez and Sofia Ve­lasquez in the play­off for 13th yes­ter­day.

When Pool B round-robin play end­ed on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, Chase and Arm­strong even­tu­al­ly fin­ished on a high by beat­ing Mitchell and Mitchell 19-21, 21-14, 15, re­bound­ing a pair of loss­es from open­ing match­es on Fri­day against Guatemalans Na­talia Girón, and Pao­la Al­vara­do 15-21, 14-21, and Cos­ta Ri­ca’s An­gel Williams and Kian­ny Que­sa­da 8-21, 11-12.

In Pool C, for­mer two-time Caribbean Un­der-21 cham­pi­ons Choon and Selvon end­ed with­out a win af­ter loss­es against USA’s Lexy Denaburg and Mol­ly Turn­er, 5-21, 3-21 on Sat­ur­day and against Mex­i­co’s Es­paran­za Al­bar­rán, and Yer­ay Vi­dau­r­raza­ga 6-21, 10-21, and Monkhouse and Bélanger 7-21, 7-21.

The T&T men faired just slight­ly bet­ter than their fe­male coun­ter­parts as Fa­bi­en Whit­field and Daneil Williams end­ed their tour­na­ment on a pos­i­tive note with a 21-6, 21-14 tri­umph over Grena­da’s Dar­ron Christo­pher Ox­ford and Isaac Nel­son for the 13th spot.

Af­ter se­cur­ing two top-ten fin­ish­es in Va­radero, Cu­ba (May 10-14), sev­enth, and then sixth in the Cay­man Is­lands (May 18-22), the pair would have been dis­ap­point­ed with their per­for­mance, which re­vert­ed to the 13th po­si­tion they had se­cured in the open­ing leg of the sea­son in Aguas­calientes, Mex­i­co (April 20-24).

The T&T men en­tered yes­ter­day's fi­nal play­off match with a 0-3 win-loss record in Pun­ta Cana af­ter fail­ing to win any of their match­es in a tough round-robin Group D, suf­fer­ing loss­es to Jorge Rosario and Rolvin Mal­don­a­do of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 13-21, 18-21 and to the USA’s Tim­o­thy Brew­ster, and Kyle Friend 9-21, 14-21. They then al­so went un­der to Cana­da’s Jake Mac­Neil and Alexan­der William Rus­sell, 15-21, 10-21, in their fi­nal pool match yes­ter­day.

In the oth­er match­es in the pool, Brew­ster and Friend de­feat­ed Mac Neil, and Rus­sell 21-13, 21-11 and Rosario, and Mal­don­a­do 21-14, 21-11 to top the pool with a per­fect 3-0 record while Rus­sell and Mac Neil end­ed sec­ond with a 2-1-mark cour­tesy of their 21-16, 21-11 win over Rosario, and Mal­don­a­do.

In Pool C, Ox­ford and Nel­son were out­classed by Guatemala’s Andy Blan­co, and Luis Gar­cia 6-21, 11-21; US Vir­gin Is­lands’ Robert Cron­shaw, and Bryce May­er 13-21, 13-21, and Cana­da’s Ar­ran Cham­bers/Liam Kopp, 14-21, 9-21.