T&T's Stephen Enile and Joel Theodore en­dured a tough cam­paign and placed 18th when the third stop of the NORCE­CA Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour end­ed at Playa Mu­nic­i­pal El Por­venir in Puer­to Cortés, Hon­duras on Sun­day.

Com­pet­ing in the men's 19-team com­pe­ti­tion, the lo­cal pair failed to win any of their six match­es con­test­ed over the three days of com­pe­ti­tion.

When the tour­na­ment served off on Fri­day, Enile and Theodore went down to Guatemalans Jose Miguel Iza­guirre and San­ti­a­go Pe­na­gos 19-21, 19-21 in their Pool B open­er be­fore al­so tast­ing de­feat against Cos­ta Ri­cans Ju­lian Araya and Jhostin Varela 14-21, 7-21.

A day lat­er, the T&T men were beat­en by USA's James Drost and Robert Har­ri­son 14-21, 12-21 and Nicaraguans Jef­fer­son Cas­cante and De­nis Lopez 16-21, 21-23 to end with a 0-4 win-loss record and a spot in the 17th to 21 semi­fi­nal where they were giv­en a bye while Es­te­ban Gon­za­lez and Justin Solano beat host pair, Kevin Her­rera and Isaac Mendez, 21-14, 21-11 in the oth­er.

In the 17th spot play­off, Theodore and Enile were again de­feat­ed by Gon­za­lez and Solano, 14-21, 19-21.

In the two pre­vi­ous stops on the tour so far, the T&T men placed 15th in Va­radero, Cu­ba while they end­ed in the 12th spot in the sec­ond leg in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

In the gold medal match, An­to­nio Var­gas Lares and Car­los An­drés Ay­ala of Mex­i­co clinched the ti­tle with a sol­id and ef­fi­cient per­for­mance, de­feat­ing the Amer­i­can pair Troy Field and Ryan Wilcox in straight sets, 21-17 and 21-18, with no ma­jor dif­fi­cul­ties.

Mex­i­co al­so claimed the bronze medal thanks to Miguel Sara­bia and Jor­man Os­una, who came from be­hind to de­feat Amer­i­cans James Drost and Robert Har­ri­son in an ex­cit­ing match that end­ed 16-21, 21-18, 15-13.

The all-Mex­i­can semi­fi­nal was gru­elling, leav­ing Sara­bia and Os­una phys­i­cal­ly drained af­ter falling to Lares and Ay­ala in a hard-fought bat­tle that ex­tend­ed to three sets, 29-27, 25-27, 15-7.

Mean­while, the semi­fi­nal be­tween the two USA pairs was al­so close­ly con­test­ed, with Field and Wilcox pre­vail­ing over Drost and Har­ri­son in straight but com­pet­i­tive sets, 21-16 and 21-18.