The lo­cal women’s team of Nikiya Bap­tiste, Jameela Mc­Carthy, Afeisha Noel and Crys­tal-Ann George, seed­ed 11th, end­ed in sec­ond spot af­ter a 1-1 qual­i­fy­ing draw record at the FI­BA 3x3 Amer­iCup tour­na­ment in Mi­a­mi, Flori­da, USA, yes­ter­day.

The T&T women were beat­en 10-22 by the Brazil­ians be­fore re­bound­ing to spank Bar­ba­dos 21-13, while Brazil scold­ed the Ba­jans 21-1 to take top spot in the pool and ad­vanced to the main draw, at the ex­pense of T&T.

On Fri­day, T&T women went un­der to Puer­to Ri­co 14-21 and Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 13-21 in their two Pool D round-robin match­es.

To­day, the na­tion­al men’s team of Ah­keel “Smal­ly” Boyd, Adri­an Joseph, Nathy­on Lewis and Mori­ba De Fre­itas will face Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from 12 noon in their quar­ter­fi­nal with the win­ner to face Mex­i­co in the semi­fi­nals.

This af­ter the 14th-seed­ed T&T scored a 17-12 up­set win over the 8th-seed­ed Ar­genti­na to fin­ish sec­ond in Pool B with 32 points af­ter los­ing to Puer­to Ri­co in their open­ing match 21-15. Puer­to Ri­co will face Pool D’s sec­ond-place team Chile in the oth­er quar­ter­fi­nal with Cana­da await­ing in the semi­fi­nals.