His­to­ry was made on Wednes­day evening as fans wit­nessed the first women’s clash in the Na­tion­al Pool League (NPL). The his­toric oc­ca­sion took place at the Up­per Deck Sports Bar and Lounge in St James where Up­per Deck host­ed Pit & Pub in the NPL 10 Ball com­pe­ti­tion.

Both teams had a women's play­er in their ranks, Priya Gomes for the hosts and Brit­ney Jagdeo for the vis­i­tors and as fate would have it, they were drawn to play each oth­er in the fourth game of the night.

Gomes has fea­tured sev­er­al times this sea­son for Up­per Deck while Jagdeo was mak­ing her first ap­pear­ance in the league. You would nev­er have known that this was Jagdeo’s first dance as she showed no nerves in a com­fort­able three-nil win, which gave Pit & Pub an unas­sail­able lead in the match. It was the per­fect fil­lip for the women’s game in T&T. Cur­rent­ly, there are sev­en women reg­is­tered to play in the NPL.

Pit & Pub were on fire ear­ly on rac­ing to a two-nil lead with­out con­ced­ing a frame. Adri­an Man­ga­roo (4) was a 4-nil win­ner over Ian Mc­Call (3) in the first game of the night and Sha­heed "Fly" Kon­di­ah (4) repli­cat­ed that re­sult against Nigel St Clair (3) in game 2. The dou­bles en­counter was next and the vis­i­tors were on course for a ma­jor blowout when Pit & Pub cap­tain Ravy Joseph and Anil Ra­mad­har made it nine unan­swered frames but Anlsem Vil­lafana aka Vil­las and Adri­an Mo­ra, the Up­per Deck cap­tain, gave the hosts their first frame of the night in the sec­ond rack.

The P&P duo, who were rac­ing to four, went up 2-1 but the home pair, rac­ing to three, won the next two frames to give Up­per deck their first game win. The fi­nal game of the night saw an­oth­er Pit & Pub debu­tant Richard Pereira (3) tak­ing on Keris "Pantz" Carew(4). Pereira won the first frame but that was his on­ly suc­cess as Carew, de­spite tak­ing his time to set­tle down, took the next four for the con­so­la­tion win.

In Princes Town, Head­quar­ters main­tained their po­si­tion at the top of the stand­ings with a 3-2 win over Fear­less (for­mer­ly Pun­ish­ers) at the Dekko Sports Bar. Dami­an Solomon, Leslie Sam­my and Amar Ram­lal se­cured the win for Head­quar­ters. Ram­lal played flaw­less pool win­ning 3-nil against Shaz­zard Mo­hammed with Mo­hammed not get­ting a sin­gle shot. For Fear­less, Roop­nar­ine Latch­man won the sec­ond game, while Ryan Son­ny and Sunil "Elvis" Latch­man won the dou­bles en­counter.

In oth­er games, Unit­ed Stars kept the pres­sure on Head­quar­ters with a 3-2 win over Spar Unit­ed at the Board­room in Debe; Ken­ny’s de­feat­ed Liq­uida­torz 3-2 in Ch­agua­nas and The Spe­cial­ists downed the Reel Steel Shot­ters 4-1 in Fyz­abad.

NB: Hand­i­cap Sys­tem: (Num­bers in brack­ets are the amount of frames need­ed to win the in­di­vid­ual games, which is a race to five wins. Na­tion­al play­ers (5), A-Play­ers (4), All oth­ers (3).

Wednes­day match­es

Round 11 (Start time 8 pm)

Head­quar­ters vs Pit & Pub, Head­quar­ters, Pe­nal

Unit­ed Stars vs Up­per Deck, Board­room, Debe

Spar Unit­ed vs Reel Steel Shot­ters, Spar Sports Bar, Re­form Vil­lage

The Spe­cial­ists vs Ken­ny’s, Gold­en Arch­es, Curepe

Liq­uida­torz vs Fear­less, Club Liq­uidz, Dun­can Vil­lage