Bermuda’s team members lost in three finals in the Caribbean Junior Squash Championships in Georgetown, Guyana, as the team won three silver medals and had four other players reach semi-finals.

Mason Smith finished second in the boys under-11 round robin, winning three of his four matches, including beating Ben Phang, of Guyana, 11-4, 11-7, 11-2 in his last match.

Owen Rosorea lost to Jayden George of St Vincent and the Grenadines 11-5, 11-4, 11-4 in the boys under-13 final.

Somers Stevenson also missed out on the gold in the girls under-15 final after she lost to Jamaica’s Mehar Trehan 11-4, 11-2, 11-1.

Four Bermuda players also lost in third-place play-off matches. McKenna Kyme went down in a close contest to Tiana Gomes, of Guyana. Gomes won the first game 11-6 before Kyme won the next two games 11-8, 11-6 to lead 2-1. However, Gomes turned it back in her favour by winning the last two games 11-9, 11-6 to seal the victory.

Rose Paulos, of Bermuda, went down 11-2, 11-7, 11-7 to Safirah Sumner, of Guyana, in the girls under-15 third-place play-off, as did Eli Carpol in the boys under-15 and Matthew Elliott in the boys under-19.

Carpol went down 11-7, 11-7, 11-8 to Daniel Henderson, of British Virgin Islands, and Elliott lost to Samuel Ince, of Guyana, 11-3, 11-2, 11-2.

The team events started last evening with Jamaica beating Bermuda 4-1 in the girls event where Kyme won Bermuda’s only match by default, while the boys team went down 3-2 to Cayman Islands. Carpol (under-15) and Owen Rosorea (under-13) got Bermuda’s two wins in the close loss.