{"id":21201,"date":"2024-07-08T17:13:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21201"},"modified":"2024-07-08T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:13:10","slug":"nicholas-verway-defends-title-at-casa-squash-championship-guyana-wins-9-singles-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/nicholas-verway-defends-title-at-casa-squash-championship-guyana-wins-9-singles-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Verway Defends Title at CASA Squash Championship, Guyana Wins 9 Singles Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyanese squash champion Nicholas Verway has successfully defended his title at the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) championship in the British Virgin Islands, defeating Barbadian Alex Stewart in a commanding three-set match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verway demonstrated his dominance in the under-19 category, securing victory with scores of 11-6, 11-9, and 11-2, reaffirming his status as the top player in the region for his age group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an all-Guyanese showdown in the under-15 division, Avery Arjoon also claimed gold by decisively defeating teammate Kaylee Lowe in straight sets, with scores of 11-5, 11-2, and 11-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day saw Guyana excel across various categories in singles play, earning a total of nine medals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Alphonso secured a bronze medal by defeating Seth Thong of Trinidad and Tobago in three sets, with scores of 11-3, 11-9, and 11-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the girls&#8217; under-17 category, Safirah Sumner triumphed over Barbadian Sarrayah Yearwood in straight sets (13-11, 11-7, 11-6) to clinch the bronze medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Shiloh Asregado faced a tough challenge in the boys&#8217; under-17 division, ultimately falling to Trinidadian Sanjiv Mungal in four sets (9-11, 3-11, 11-7, 9-11), finishing without a medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emily Fung-A-Fat delivered another strong performance for Guyana, securing bronze by defeating Trinidadian Josie Thong in four sets (9-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-8) in the girls&#8217; division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s success continued with Ethan Bulkan earning silver in the boys under-13 category, Egan Bulkan securing bronze in the same age group, and Thanni Munroe winning bronze in the girls under-11 category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the singles events conclude, attention now turns to the team events in the ongoing CASA tournament, which is set to conclude on July 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyanese squash champion Nicholas Verway has successfully defended his title at the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) championship in the British Virgin Islands, defeating Barbadian Alex Stewart in a commanding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21202,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions\/21202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}