Carly Kan/Devanne Sours of USA Win Gold in NORCECA Bonaire

BONAIRE, Bonaire, November 3, 2024.- Carly Kan and Devanne Sours of the United States took the gold medal of the seventh stage of the 2024 NORCECA Tour that took place at the Rudy Boezen complex in Bonaire from November 1-3, defeating Dana Roskic and Anna Licht of Canada 2-0 (21-18,21-15).

This is Carly’s second gold medal in NORCECA, she won in La Paz in 2022, while for Devanne it’s her first NORCECA. For Dana Roskic and Anna Licht, silver medal winners, it’s their first international competition.

“It feels good, it’s nice to be back competing in NORCECA,” said Carly. About the gold medal match she expressed “in the first set we were making a lot of plays but no converting on them but luckily we had enough to overtake the first set and then we found our rhythm”.

Devanne said, “this is my first NORCECA ever and winning a gold medal is very fun in such a nice atmosphere”. Speaking about their performance she added that they had to really turn on their minds, “in the days before we didn’t have much of a challenge so it was hard mentally to make sure we were both ready to play, we did good in the semifinals against the other Americans and then we needed to work on some small things for to keep it up in this last match”.

In the all-USA semifinal, Carly Kan and Devanne Sours bounced back from losing the first set to beat Jade Race and Kaely Crews 2-1 (20-22, 21-18, 15-9).

Roskic/Licht advanced to the gold medal match beating Natalia Giron/Paola Alvarado of Guatemala 2-0 (21-15, 21-16) in semifinals.

Jade Race and Kealy Crews won the bronze medal over Natalia Girón and Paola Alvarado 2-0 (21-19, 21-16). Jade won back-to-back bronze, she finished third in Puerto Cortés, Honduras and for Kealy it was her first NORCECA. In pool-play Race/Crews lost to Girón/Alvarado.

For fifth place, Cristina Almeida-Anz/Amber Bennett of the U.S. Virgin Islands downed Lakisha Hous/Dyveke Brugman (CUR) 2-0 (21-8, 21-16).

Seventh place went to Asma Charles/Kristianna Richards of Trinidad and Tobabo in a battle to three sets 2-1 (13-21, 22-20, 15-10) against Dei Padmore/Serena Edwards of Barbados.

Maria Kuijt/Linde Groot took ninth place over Valeria Villa Morales/Danna Arteaga 2-0 (21-8, 21-16); both teams from Bonaire.

Final Standings: 1. Kan/Sours (USA); 2. Roskic/Licht (USA); 3.Race/Crews (USA); 4. Giron/Alvarado (GUA); 5. Almeida-Anz/Amber Bennett (ISV); 6. Brugman/Hous (CUR); 7. Charles/Richards (TTO); 8. Padmore/Edwards (BAR); 9. Kuijt/Groot; 10. Morales/Arteaga (BON); 11. Ramirez/Becerra.

Results Day 3 Women:

SEMIFINALS: Roskic/Licht (CAN) d Giron/Alvarado (GUA) 2-0 (21-15, 21-16); Kan/Sours (USA) d Race/Crews (USA) 2-1 (20-22, 21-18, 15-9); POS. 5/6: Almeida-Anz/Bennett (ISV) d Brugman/Hous (CUR) 2-0 (21-8, 21-16); POS 7/8: Charles/Richards (TTO) d Padmore/Edwards 2-1 (13-21, 22-20, 15-10); POS. 9/10: Kuijt/Groot (BON) d Morales/Arteaga (BON) 2-0 (21-6, 21-17). BRONZE MEDAL: Race/Crews (USA) d Giron/Alvarado (GUA) 2-0 (21-19, 21-16); GOLD MEDAL: Kan/Sours (USA) d Roskic/Licht (CAN) 2-0 (21-18,21-15).