Karen Meakins , the top seed and four time Ladies National squash champion, duly reached her fifth successive national ladies semi-final last night as action continued in the open events in the Barbados National Squash Championships, which are being sponsored by the Barbados Olympic Association .
In her quarter-final match last night (Tuesday) at the Barbados Squash Club (BSC), Meakins easily dispatched Ayoni Bradshaw 9/0 9/1 9/0 and will face in her ladies semi-finals on Thursday night the defending Barbados and Caribbean Girls’ under-15 champion, Cheri-Ann Parris, seeded here at #4, who defeated Bo Harris 9/7 9/0 3/9 9/3 in a hard fought match. The other ladies semi-final will see four time national finalist and the #2 seed, Sonia Perkins , take on the #3 seeded Lilianna White . Perkins cruised past Carla Jackson last night 9/0 9/2 9/1 without any problems, but White was fully extended by local junior player, Nadia McCarthy , in a titanic contest that went the full distance. McCarthy started strongly and blasted her way to win the first two games at four and five before White?s steadier play began to take its toll. After winning the following two games, which were both keenly contested, White then closed out the match in the fifth game in style to win 4/9 5/9 9/7 9/6 9/3 in 50 minutes.
Results in the other matches played last night, in the Men’s Preliminary competition, were as follows:
Tim O?Neal defeated Dean Straker (3-1) 9/2 10/8 5/9 9/6
Leon Truss defeated Don Benn (3-1) 9/5 9/1 7/9 9/0
Ryan Truss defeated Ricky Edwards (3-0) 9/4 9/0 9/0
Jason Small defeated Andrew Nunes (3-1) 9/5 10/8 9/10 9/5
Craig Archer defeated Brian Robinson (3-1) 8/10 9/2 9/4 10/8
Alex Garcia defeated Nick Paddison (3-0) 9/1 9/0 9/3
Roger Martin won by default
Orson Simpson won by default
The first round of the Men’s Main Draw begins tonight (Wednesday). This is when the top eight Men’s seeds play against the above eight qualifiers from the Preliminary round. The top seed and defending Men’s champion is national squash and volleyball representative, Shawn Simpson , who will be seeking to reach his third successive national squash final.
