Guyana fell be­hind in their first in­ter­na­tion­al clash with T&T on Fri­day night at the Pit ‘N’ Pub Sports Bar in Curepe. In a race to 11 games, the Guyanese end­ed the night win­ning just one of the six games con­test­ed.

The Pool Jaguars, as they are com­mon­ly known, start­ed well when Sean DeS­ouza came back from a 2-4 deficit to win 5-2 against Aaron Rah­goo­nanan. Vishaal Singh evened things up for T&T in game two, beat­ing Kamil Hus­sain 5-4 in an­oth­er close game. Sham Jagerssar had an eas­i­er time and nev­er looked in trou­ble against Ryan Ram­bal­ak, win­ning 5-2, to give the hosts their first lead of the night.

Game four was the dou­bles en­counter and the T&T pair of Clint Bachan and Ja­son James took on An­tho­ny Xavier and DeS­ouza, a strong pair­ing for the Jaguars. Un­for­tu­nate­ly for them, Bachan and James, thanks to a foul shot by Xavier in the de­cid­ing game, gift­ed the T&T duo a ball in hand and an easy black sealed that game 5-4.

Ravi Goorah, run­ner-up in the re­cent 10 ball tour­na­ment on Wednes­day, wast­ed lit­tle time with Ab­dool Sal­im win­ning 5-1 and Adri­an "Glass­es" Ba­j­nath pre­vailed 5-2 over Steven Per­saud.

Yet to play for T&T are Lyn­don Ramkissoon, Zu­bir Sankar, Damien Bis­nath and Menon Her­era.

The match was sched­uled to con­tin­ue yes­ter­day evening at Gold­en Arch­es II in Curepe.

Guyana was al­so in ac­tion on Sat­ur­day against a na­tion­al youth team at Pit 'N' Pub and was out­played by the T&T "young guns". This match was a race to nine with in­di­vid­ual games a best-of-three for­mat. The Guyanese man­aged just two wins cour­tesy of Ryan Ram­bal­ak and Sean De Souza. Ram­bal­ack won the night’s open­er 2-1 against T&T cap­tain Ravy Joseph and De Souza won his en­counter with Keris Carew 2-0.

For T&T, Josi­ah Moreno was a 2-0 win­ner over Ryan Baksh, Carew won his ear­ly game 2-1 against Per­saud, Adri­an Man­ga­roo de­feat­ed Kamil Hus­sain 2-1, Steven Mungals­ingh got the bet­ter of Ab­dool Sal­im 2-1, Nicholas Ram­la­ka had a 2-0 win over An­tho­ny Xavier, the dou­bles pair of Ste­fan Mo­hammed and Sean Hal­lett were 2-0 win­ners over De Souza and Dave "Scot­ty" Hus­sain, Ceon Archer, fresh from win­ning an Open nine-ball tour­na­ment at Gold­en Arch­es II ear­li­er in the day, beat Ronald "Skip­per" Bridge­mo­han 2-1, Man­ga­roo made it two in two when he beat Xavier 2-0, Hal­lett downed Ram­bal­ak 2-0 and Moreno com­plet­ed the match with a 2-0 win over Hus­sain (Kamil).

The Guyana team was ex­pect­ed to leave for To­ba­go on Mon­day, where they will con­test a se­ries of games against the best play­ers on the sis­ter isle.