second place in the Junior Caribbean Squash Championships on Saturday.

On the sixth and final day of the tournament, Claire O'Connor grabbed a nailbiting 9-6 victory in the fifth and decisive rubber against Sherice MacDonald to give Bermuda a 3-2 triumph.

The Bermuda boys' team also ended with a win, defeating Bahamas 3-2 to claim third place overall in the event.

Barbados defeated Jamaica 3-2 to win the boys' title while Guyana rounded off their victorious campaign in the girls' tournament with a 4-1 defeat of Jamaica.

Bermuda's Laura Robinson and Jessica Mitchell had both won their ties but at 2-2 it all came down to O'Connor's match with MacDonald.

O'Connor went into the match with a back injury and struggled with her backhand throughout the first game, which MacDonald won 9-4. Things looked bleak for O'Connor as her opponent stormed into an 8-1 lead in the second game, but she delighted the home crowd with a magnificent fightback to win 10-9.

O'Connor continued her fine form to win the next two equally hotly contested games 9-7, 9-6.

Mitchell's earlier victory over Tracy Goodridge went to the wire, Mitchell finally winning 9-3, 3-9, 10-9, 4-9, 9-4.

Robinson's straightforward victory over Bo Harris by 9-0, 9-2, 9-3, had set Bermuda on their way to their third win, even though Anna Forbes went down to Nadia McCarthy and Melissa Harney to Tracy Roett, both 0-3.

Victories by 3-0 by Andrew Stout, Andrew Robinson and James Stout gave Bermuda boys victory over Bahamas.

Under-13 player Andrew Stout recovered from 5-1 down in the first game to beat Scott Jupp 9-6, 9-7, 9-3.

In the under-15s match-up, Robinson cruised to a 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 triumph over Miles Adderley, while James Stout beat Charles Bellot 9-2, 9-0, 9-0.