Island's squash players march into two finals
Bermuda waltzed into two finals in the second day's play at the Junior Caribbean Squash Championships in Guyana.
Both James Stout and Laura Robinson made light work of their semi-final opponents as they both cruised through their matches in straight games.
Stout defeated Jamaica's Brad Low, who early in the day put a halt to Andrew Robinson's campaign in their quarter-final match, Low beating an exhausted Robinson 9-6 in the fifth game.
Stout, however, made light work of Low only dropping one point in the entire match to earn a place in the final against Guyana's Gerard Greaves.
Stout's berth in the semi-final was at the expense of Bermuda's Justin Robinson who is the only player to score points in each game against Stout.
Stout won 9-4, 9-3, 9-1.
With Laura Robinson winning her quarter-final the day before she looked fresh and quickly put away Trinidadian and 3-4 seed Tessa Martin. Robinson demolished Martin winning 9-0, 9-4, 9-2 and will now play No.1 seed Bo Harris from Barbados in the final.
As in the Boys Under-19 division, the Boys Under-17 age group featured three players from Bermuda competing in the quarter-finals.
Michael Shrubb kept his hopes alive by defeating Guyana's 5-8 seed Peter DeGroot in straight games, 9-2, 9-1, 9-1.
Unfortunately, both Graham Counsell and Iain Redford could not cause an upset against the 3-4 and second seed respectively as they bowed out of the main draw in straight games.
In the evening session Counsell and Redford reversed their fortunes winning their consolation matches in straight games.
Shrubb came up against the No.1 seed and hometown hero Damien DaSilva in the semi-final with DaSilva starting hot favourite.
Unfazed by the parochial crowd Shrubb was quick out of the blocks and jumped into the lead before the ball broke at 4-0 giving DaSilva time to regroup and focus on the job at hand.
This combined with a blackout and the screaming local fans ultimately lead to a reversal of form and DaSilva narrowly winning the first game 9-7.
With DaSilva regaining his confidence he went on to demolish Shrubb 9-0, 9-0 to win his place in the final and put the Bermudian into the third and fourth place playoff.
The Boys Under-15 started with an upset when Bermudian Robert Maycock defeated Trinidad and Tobago's Josh Pinnard in a five set marathon.
Pinnard was seeded 3-4 with Maycock seeded 5-8, which meant it should have been the Trinidadian winning through to the semi-final.
However, this didn't concern Maycock who contested every ball and managed to outlast Pinnard 9-6 in the fifth game after one hour and 15 minutes.
Maycock couldn't repeat the upset in his semi-final match against No.2 seed Chris Binnie from Jamaica, but fought valiantly earning the respect and admiration of the crowd in his 6-9, 3-9, 9-10 loss.
Robert Forbes gave No.2 seed Rafael DeGroot a scare in their Under-13 quarter-final.
Forbes led DeGroot two games to one and 4-2 in the fourth game before visibly tiring and becoming unable to cover the court. Forbes lost 4-9, 9-2, 9-1, 6-9, 3-9.
Forbes then went on to defeat fellow countryman Jeffrey Olson in the consolation round 9-3, 9-1, 9-3.
In the Girls Under-17 quarter-final Katy Lennox was outclassed by Guyana's Chantelle Fernandez. Lennox then couldn't change her fortunes in her consolation match bowing out of the tournament in straight games.
Jessica Mitchell suffered a similar fate in the Girls Under-19 division when she lost both her matches, but not before challenging Jamie Galt from Trinidad and Tobago in their match.
With the clash level at one game all Mitchell narrowly lost the third game 10-9 and then looked dispirited losing the final game 9-0.
Bermuda's good form continues with 11 out of 13 players competing in the final day's play in the individual championship.