Binnie played No. 4 for the Bantams and went 3-0 in the CSA National Championship Tournament including the national-title-clinching, 3-1 win to give Trinity a 5-4 victory against Yale in the CSA Finals. Binnie was 18-2 record this winter, which tied him for second on the squad in wins and winning percentage, and won two matches to advance to the CSA National Singles Championship Quarterfinals. Binnie was ranked as the No. 13 player in the nation at the end of the year. He finishes his squash career with a 52-5 record, and a Malloy Championship Trophy won at the CSA Singles Championships in 2008-09. Binnie, who will continue to play soccer for the Bantams in the fall, was the U-19 National Champion in his native Jamaica. A graduate of Campion College, he is the son of Gill and Ray Binnie.

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TRINIDAD and Tobago advanced to the boys’ team final when the CASA (Caribbean Area Squash Association) Junior Championships continued Wednesday night in Guyana.

This country’s girls went down against the hosts in the semi-finals, but the boys edged Bermuda 3-2 to reach the title match against the powerful Guyanese.

The big three players were responsible for T&T’s triumph as the Britain-based Kale Wilson and Patrick brothers, Mandela and Nku, won their matches.

Wilson, who was crowned Caribbean under-19 champion during the individual finals on Sunday night, came from behind to edge last year’s champ Micah Franklin 10-12, 11-9, 8-11, 11-2, 11-4.

Mandela was also forced to battle from behind, but his recovery was far more dramatic as the national under-17 champ lost the first two sets before roaring back to deny D’Vario Thompson 8-11, 5-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-4.

Mandela had also edged Thompson in five sets en route to a runner-up under-17 final in “individuals” Sunday.

Nku, who was beaten in the Caribbean under-15 final as the top seed, cruised past Kion Knights 11-1, 11-5, 11-5, but under-19 player Ryan Bayne and national under-13 champ Jonathan Blanc lost the other two matches in straight sets.

Heavy title favourites Guyana crushed a Jamaican squad, which had lost 3-2 to T&T in the group stage, 5-0 without even dropping a set in the other semi-final.

The final was in progress after press time last night, along with the Jamaica/Bermuda clash for third place.

T&T girls were given no chance against defending champions Guyana and did not even win a match.

National under-19 champ Charlotte Knaggs had upset Victoria Arjoon in the shock of the tournament last Sunday for the Caribbean under-17 title. But the four-time CASA champ gained revenge in a pulsating five-setter 11-8, 9-11, 10-12, 11-9, 11-9.

National under-17 champ Angelique Jackson and national under-19 runner-up Emily Bones, on vacation from studies in the United States, lost the under-19 matches, while Faith Gillezeau and Gabriella Scott, the national under-15 and 13 champs, respectively, also failed to win a set.

The T&T team were back in action yesterday morning and lost against a three-member Cayman Islands squad for third place.

Knaggs and Scott won by default, but Bones, Jackson and Gillezeau were beaten again.

Then the Guyanese went on to retain their title with anther clinical performance to overwhelm the Jamaicans 4-1.

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Defending champion Alyssa Mullings retained the girls’ Under-13 title at the Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Junior Championships, which is currently under way in Georgetown, Guyana.

Mullings easily beat Amanda Haywood of Barbados 11-2, 11-2, 11-6 to take the regional championship for the second consecutive year.

Mullings’ triumph on Sunday follows her impressive performance at the Allied Insurance Brokers All Jamaica Squash Championship last month, where she also took the national Under-13 title.

“Alyssa came into the competition focused and determined to retain her title and her efforts have paid off,” said national junior coach, Karen Anderson.

“It was very clear from her performance that she is at a different level from the rest of her peers across the region, and it will be exciting to see how far she can go in the sport as she matures,” she added.

With her championship win, Mullings has been the top performer so far among the Jamaican contingent at the week-long tournament.

Fourth place

Jamaica’s Under-15 boys’ champion, Jake Mahfood, beat Julian Jervis 9-11, 10-12, 12-10, 11-7 to take fourth place in his age group. In addition, Stephan Morrison and Jonathan Walker finished fifth and seventh, respectively, in the Under-13 boys’ competition.

All Jamaica boys Under-17 and Under-19 champion, Ashante Smith, beat Jean-Claude Jeffrey for fifth place in the Under-17 competition and Lauren Mahfood placed sixth in the Under-19 category.

The Jamaicans are now focused on the team competition, where the players made an impressive start, as the boys took on Cayman and won all of their five matches. In the girls’ team competition, Jamaica beat Barbados 4-1.

The championships will run until July 14.

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Girls’ U-13 top-seed Mary Jo Mahfood of Jamaica booked her semi-final spot by defeating Demi Ollivierre of the OECS 11-5, 11-2, 11-3, at the POWERADE Caribbean Junior Caribbean Squash Championships on Saturday.

Meanwhile, among the Under-13 Boys, T&T’s Nku Patrick and Jamaican Jake Mahfood stayed on course for a repeat of last year’s Boys Under-13 final in Bermuda.
All the top-seeded players safely made it through early rounds of the championships on Saturday.

Under-19 No 1 seeds Kerrie Sample, of Trinidad and Tobago, and Joe Chapman, of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), breezed through their matches on opening day at the Barbados Squash Club.

England-based Sample dismissed Bermuda’s Juliette Ferrari-McComb 11-1, 11-1, 11-3 in her U-19 outing while the No 2 seed and ex-champion Cheri-Ann Parris brushed aside T&T’s Jessica Scott 11-3, 11-4, 11-3.

In the Boys’ U-19 class, the British Virgin Islands’ Chapman outgunned Jamaican David Lawrence 11-1, 11-8, 11-4, and Cayman’s Cameron Stafford, last year’s U-17 champion, debuted in the higher age-group with an 11-1, 11-4, 11-1 triumph over Ryan Foster, of Barbados.

Guyanese Keisha Jeffrey and Ashley Khalil, the top seeds in the Girls’ U-17 division, won quarter-final matches in the evening session.

The No 1 seed and defending champion Jeffrey eliminated Jamaican Lauren Mahfood 11-2, 11-9, 11-6 and Khalil defeated Emily Bones, of T&T, 11-5, 11-6, 8-11, 11-8.

The Boys’ Under-17s reached the second-round stage where top-seed Alex Arjoon, a former champion in the lower age-group, defeated Cayman’s Alex Frazer 11-7, 11-7, 11-6.

Among the Under-15s, defending champion Victoria Arjoon and T&T’s Mandela Patrick advanced.

Arjoon beat Barbadian Asha Gibbs 11-4, 11-9, 11-2 to reach the Girls’ semis along with Jamaican Jessica Perkins, a straight games winner over T&T’s Charlotte Knaggs, and Patrick topped Cody Stafford 11-4, 11-5, 11-8 to reach the Boys’ quarter-finals.

Top-seed Patrick toppled fellow Trinidadian Christian Edghill 11-4, 11-1, 11-4 to reach the semi-finals and Mahfood is also into the last four after defeating Jason Doyle, of the OECS, 11-8, 11-6, 11-9.

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Winners A: Kerri-Anne Bell, runner up Justine Anderson, 3rd Jake Mahfood
B: Mary Jo Mahfood, runner up Oshain Marsh, 3rd Kelsey Fenton
Novice winner: Melissa Watters, runner up Blaise Bicknell, 3rd Adam Gunning
Sportsmanship award: Josh Mahfood

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Notable achievements: Brooke Burrowes securing both U17 and U19 girls
titles; Chris Binnie in his last junior tournament in Jamaica taking the U19
title.  Some great matches took place in the U13 and 15 categories; players
of note Josh Mahfood, David Mullings, Julian Morrison and Ashante Smith in
the boys and Jessica Perkins, Kerri-Ann Bell, Mary Jo Mahfood and Lauren
Mahfood in the girls.

All Jamaica Junior Squash Tournament 2007 Results

Girls U11 Champion       Mary-jo Mahfood
                     2nd                      Alyssa Mullings
                     3rd                      Joelle Lawrence

Boys U11 Champion        Andrew Bicknell
                     2nd                      Stephan Morrison
                     3rd                      Jacob Bicknell

Girls U13 Champion       Jessica Perkins
                     2nd                      Kerri-ann Bell
                     3rd                      Mary-jo Mahfood

Boys U13 Champion        Josh Mahfood
                      2nd                     David Mullings
                      3rd                     Ashante Smith

Girls U15 Champion       Lauren Mahfood
                       2nd                    Jessica Perkins
                       3rd                    Justine Anderson

Boys U15 Champion        Julian Morrison
                        2nd                   Ashante Smith
                        3rd                   David Mullings

Girls U17 Champion       Brooke Burrowes
                        2nd                   Lauren Mahfood
                        3rd                   Chanel Nielsen

Boys U17 Champion        Jordan Schwier
                        2nd                   Sean Reynolds
                        3rd                   Shak Jones

Girls U19 Champion      Brooke Burrowes
                        2nd                   Leisa Robotham
                        3rd                   Chanel Nielsen

Boys U19 Champion        Chris Binnie
                        2nd                   Jordan Schwier
                        3rd                   Sean Reynolds

Novice A Winner Mathew Levy, 2nd Dana Saulter, 3rd Aaron March
Novice B Winner Jacob Bicknell, 2nd Oshain Marsh, 3rd Dillon Chin

U13 Girls Consolation Winner Alyssa Mullings
U13 Boys Consolation Winner Jake Mahfood
U15 Girls Consolation Winner Beckie Jardine
U17 Boys Consolation Winner Stephen Reid
U19 Boys Consolation Winner Stephen Reid

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