Jor­dane Dook­ie and An­neliese Rose com­bined to beat Pana­ma's Michelle Agelvis and Kar­la Ching 6-3, 6-3 to se­cure a come-from-be­hind 2-1 win for T&T in their sev­enth-place play­off when the Bil­lie Jean Cup Amer­i­c­as Zone Group III qual­i­fiers end­ed in El Sal­vador, Sat­ur­day.

Agelvis had ear­li­er giv­en Pana­ma a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three se­ries when she de­feat­ed T&T's Char­lotte Ready in com­mand­ing fash­ion 6-0, 6-0.

How­ev­er, Dook­ie then starved off de­feat for T&T with a sim­i­lar con­vinc­ing win over Pana­ma's An­na Louise Bjorn­stad, 6-2, 6-0, to set up the de­cid­ing dou­bles en­counter, which she paired with Rose for the win.

On Fri­day, the 46-year-old Rose and Dook­ie, 18, al­so won a de­cid­ing clash with US Vir­gin Is­lands' (USVI) Me­leno Del Ol­mo and Lisa Messier 6-2, 6-3 for a 2-1 win in their first match of the three-team sev­enth to ninth play­off.

In the open­er, Jae­da-Lee Daniel-Joseph, al­so 18, was beat­en by USVI's Lo­ri­ann Lau­gle 1-6, 5-7 but na­tion­al cham­pi­on Dook­ie kept T&T in the con­test with her win over Del Ol­mo, who re­tired af­ter los­ing the first set 6-3.

The Pana­ma­ni­ans blanked USVI 3-0 in the open­ing match of the se­ries.

The Ba­hamas earned pro­mo­tion by beat­ing both El Sal­vador and Uruguay 2-1 over the past two days, and with the two losers meet­ing yes­ter­day for the sec­ond spot to gain pro­mo­tion to Group II next year, while Cu­ba and Ja­maica faced off for the fourth spot, with St Lu­cia al­ready cer­tain of sixth spot.

Ear­li­er in the group phase, T&T was beat­en by the Ba­hamas and Ja­maica by 3-0 mar­gins be­fore re­bound­ing to edge Suri­name 2-1.

Suri­name avoid­ed the cel­lar (11th) spot when they de­feat­ed An­tigua & Bar­bu­da 2-1 on Thurs­day.