T&T will play for sev­enth place in the Fast5 Net­ball com­pe­ti­tion at the Trin­ba­go2023 Com­mon­wealth Youth Games (CYG), on Thurs­day.

The lo­cal youth net­ball team re­mained win­less fol­low­ing their fifth to eighth place­ment semi­fi­nal play­off loss to Botswana, 15-11, at the Shaw Park Com­plex in To­ba­go, on Wednes­day.

Ear­li­er, the T&T youth net­ballers had no an­swer for Aus­tralia as they were beat­en 64-2 in their third and fi­nal Group A match in the pre­lim­i­nary round. The host team suf­fered de­feats against Cana­da (22-11) and Scot­land (37-14), re­spec­tive­ly, on day one of the com­pe­ti­tion, Tues­day.

In the open­ing match of the sec­ond day of ac­tion in the Fast5 com­pe­ti­tion, the two oth­er teams in Group A bat­tled and it was the Scot­tish team emerg­ing with a com­mand­ing 24-4 vic­to­ry over Cana­da.

This meant at the end of the pre­lim­i­nary round play, T&T fin­ished in fourth place with ze­ro points be­hind un­beat­en Aus­tralia with six points, sec­ond-placed Scot­land (four points) and third-placed Cana­da (two points).

In group B, South Africa dom­i­nat­ed the St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, 72-8 to emerge the top team, fin­ish­ing un­de­feat­ed to lead the group with six points, Eng­land made light work of Botswana beat­ing them 47-8 to be sec­ond with four points. Botswana was third with two and win­less St Vin­cent and the Grenadines was fourth with no points.

The T&T net­ballers will hop­ing to earn their first win of the com­pe­ti­tion when they face Caribbean neigh­bour St Vin­cent and the Grenadines in the first match of the day, Thurs­day, in the sev­enth-eighth play­off at 2.15 pm. St Vin­cent and the Grenadines were de­feat­ed by the Cana­di­ans, 25-11 in the open­ing Clas­si­fi­ca­tion play­offs semi­fi­nal match-up in the evening ses­sion on Wednes­day.

In the sec­ond match, Cana­da and Botswana will com­pete for fifth place at 3.15 pm.

Mean­while the bat­tle for gold will con­tin­ue among the top four teams.

In semi­fi­nal one, Aus­tralia was sched­uled to meet Eng­land at 7.15 pm and Scot­land takes on South Africa in the oth­er at 8.15 pm. The fi­nal is card­ed for Thurs­day 5.15 pm af­ter the bronze medal match at 4.15 pm.