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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

NPL presents first ever two woman clash

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Sports Desk
2062 days ago
20191130
Priya Gomes, left, of Pit & Pub and Britney Jagdeo of Upper Deck battle in the NPL 10 Ball competition at the Upper Deck Sports Bar and Lounge in St James on Wendesday night.

Priya Gomes, left, of Pit & Pub and Britney Jagdeo of Upper Deck battle in the NPL 10 Ball competition at the Upper Deck Sports Bar and Lounge in St James on Wendesday night.

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


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