Las Lo­mas had to fight off a rag­ing Jabloteh but it was able to book the last semi­fi­nal spot in the Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion knock­out com­pe­ti­tion of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League on Tues­day at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua.

Goal-shoot­er Patrice Thomas and goal-at­tack Aaliyah Paul were tasked to shoot for Las Lo­mas and though hav­ing to fight for each goal, they did enough to get their a 33-26 vic­to­ry.

Thomas net­ted 18 goals from 34 at­tempts while Paul added 15 in 23 to have Las Lo­mas ahead in each quar­ter 10-8, 19-15 and 25-20, re­spec­tive­ly, be­fore com­ing away with the sev­en-goal win.

Jabloteh's goal-shoot­er Ka­reena Lewis scored a match-high 20 from 26 tries but in a los­ing ef­fort. Her goal-at­tack Anes­cia De Peza net­ted six of nine.

Las Lo­mas moves on to play Po­lice Y, who like the Met­al In­dus­tries Com­pa­ny (MIC) Tigers locked in their semi­fi­nal ap­pear­ances with easy vic­to­ries against Po­lice X and the Uni­ver­si­ty of the South­ern Caribbean (USC), re­spec­tive­ly.

Po­lice Y had no mer­cy for an un­der­manned Po­lice X team, beat­ing its op­po­nent who on­ly had five of its sev­en play­ers avail­able that evening, 20-0.

The Tigers pro­gressed af­ter an­oth­er lop­sided match with their goal-shoot­er Tiffany Gon­za­lez boost­ing her team with 34 in 41 to claim a 38-11 vic­to­ry over USC, which had Gel­lana Grant putting up the best shoot­ing fig­ures of eight of nine in the loss.

To­day, the win­ner of the Jean Pierre Chal­lenge will be de­cid­ed in the fi­nal round of ac­tion be­fore the league takes a break for the Car­ni­val sea­son. In the first semi­fi­nal match, Fire will face Open Cam­pus at 5.30 pm then the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) will meet Po­lice X from 6.20 pm. The win­ners will ad­vance to the fi­nal set to pass off at 7.10 pm.

RE­SULTS

Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion

USC 11 (An­gel Ma­hadoo 3/11, Gel­lana Grant 8/9, Ka­trice Her­nan­dez 0/1) vs MIC 38 (Tiffany Gon­za­lez 34/41, Faith Gibbs 2/8, Keisha Alexan­der 2/3). Quar­ter scores: 1st. 6-5, 2nd. 15-9, 3rd. 24-10 (All in favour of MIC).

Po­lice Y 20 (Araya Williams 14/17, Ja­da Chan­dler 2/8, Na­talya Mar­tinez 4/4) vs Po­lice X 0 (Ce­lene Ramkissoon 0/3, Ter­ry Ann Ro­get 0/3, Aliyah Joseph 0/0, Kedisha Grant 0/3). Quar­ter scores: 1st. 10-0, 2nd. 12-0, 3rd. 16-0 (All in favour of Po­lice Y).

Las Lo­mas 33 (Patrice Thomas 18/34, Aaliyah Paul 15/23) vs Jabloteh 26 (Ka­reena Lewis 20/26, Anes­cia De Peza 6/9). Quar­ter scores: 1st. 10-8, 2nd. 19-15, 3rd. 25-20 (All in favour of Las Lo­mas).