Saint Lucia, smarting from their loss to Barbados on Tuesday morning, handed St. Kitts and Nevis a 48-27 defeat. The tournament officials were forced shift the game to a late start in the morning, as early and mid-morning rainfall rendered the court unuseable.
Saint Lucia’s victory charge was let by goal-shooter Roxanne Synder who netted 24 goals out of 32 attempts, goal-attack Meagan Nestor scoring 2 out of 10 attempts, and Shem Maxwell who took over the goal-shooter from the goal-defence position despite an injured ankle, scored 22 out of 31 attempts.
For St. Kitts and Nevis, goal-shooter Aaliyah Gibson scored 24 out of 32 attempts, goal-attack Rochella Challenger scored 9 out of 16 attempts, and Jewel Thompson scored 6 out of the 8 attempts taken.
In the morning’s other match which also began late, saw Barbados registering their third straight victory, defeating Antigua and Barbados 48-31. Barbados goal-shooter Brianna Holder scored 12 out of 21 attempts, Latonia Blackman scored 18 out of 21 attempts, Faye Agard scored 13 out of 19 attempts, and Jada Smith scored 5 out of 9 attempts.
Robertson S. Henry is a multi-time award winning sports journalist from Saint Lucia, currently residing in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. His coverage of sporting events both locally and regionally, not just landed him the Sports Journalist of the Year Award on numerous occasions, but recognition from the International Olympic Committee in 2005.
Henry began his fulltime career in journalism with the now defunct Crusader Newspaper in 1994, and worked with the Voice Newspaper until 2007. He established the sports website sportcaraibe, and believes “sports is the fourth pillar in the socio-economic development of the Caribbean.”
Henry has also produced work for a number of regional newspapers including the Trinidad Guardian, Stabroek Newspaper of Guyana, and in 2010 did a photo-shoot of Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke for the Australian Herald.
