Cayman Islands gets better of T&T for FIVB U19 Girls ticket
BLACKROCK, Tobago, May 26, 2024.- Cayman Islands’ Joanna Robinson and
Luna Ebanks emerged as champions of the Caribbean Zonal Volleyball
Association (CAZOVA)/Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association (ECVA)
FIVB World Championship Under-19 Beach Volleyball Qualifiers to qualify
to the Worlds’ main draw with unbeaten 4-0 record at the end of their
five-team round-robin series.
With only the winner of the round-robin series securing a direct ticket
to the FIVB World Championship main draw and the second and third placed
teams to the qualification draw.
Robinson/Ebanks and Trinidad and Tobago’s L’fe Roberts and Meeka Johnson
began the final day of the qualifiers both with 2-0 win-loss records and
the main contenders to the automatic main draw spot for the Worlds’
event in China from August 27 to September 1.
Roberts and Johnson then improved to 3-0 when they beat Jewel Austin and
Marilyn Gill of Barbados 2-0 (21-12, 21-19) while Robinson and Ebanks
did likewise courtesy their defeat of Celine Hankey and Makayla Mason of
Grenada 2-0 (21-5, 21-8).
And in the penultimate match of the girl’s competition, Robinson and
Ebanks overcame Roberts and Johnson in the winner-take-all clash 2-1
(21-9, 11-21, 15-9) to punch their tickets to the automatic main draw
while T&T ended second with a 3-1 record to earn one of the two spots to
the qualification draw in China.
Joining Cayman Islands and T&T on the trip to China will be Naya
Whitfield and Davy-Ann Eduards of Aruba after they outplayed Hankey and
Mason (GRN) 2-0 (21-11, 21-15) to finish with the same record as
Barbados, but with a better points-won to points-loss ratio of 0.9178 to
0.8224 while Grenada ended winless from their four matches.
On Saturday, Robinson and Ebanks defeated Aruba 2-0 (21-9, 21-10) and
Barbados 2-0 (21-9, 21-7) while the T&T duo, veterans of the
Commonwealth Youths Games at the same venue last year beat Aruba 2-0
(21-16, 21-15) and Grenada 2-0 (21-10, 21-2). |