Badminton: Pan Am Juniors – 14 still have medal chance

The finals and presentation of awards for the Pan American Junior badminton Championships in Guatemala City will be tomorrow, Sunday 20.07.08 and not today as previously posted.

Despite having their Vice-captain, Hadei Kay Williams having to return home due to injury plus with two others on the injured list but still playing, the twenty five (25) participating Jamaican players are in good spirits and still in contention for a possible fourteen (14) medals in the individual events of the Pan American Junior Badminton Championships now being played in Guatemala City.

This section of the tournament which has over three hundred participants competing in five age groups is being played over three days, with today Saturday being the final day. The quarter-finals, semifinals and finals are down to be contested on today’s final day plus a few matches carried forward from an earlier round. All quarter-final winners will be guaranteed at least a bronze medal as both losing semifinalists are awarded bronze.

Gareth Henry and brothers Sean and Shane Wilson are the top seeds in the Under 19, 13 and 11 singles while Delsang Lue-Taim is #2 in the Under 17 and Shevon Salmon #4 in the Under 13 age group. Doubles seedings for Jamaica are: Under 11 mixed doubles – Shane Wilson & Bianca Hall #2; Under 15 girls doubles – Shana-Kay Bailey & Stacey-Ann Blake #3; Under 17 mixed doubles – Jordan Roberts & Mikaylia Haldane #3.

Results for Jamaica thus far are as follows:

WINNERS:

UNDER 19

Boys Singles: Gareth Henry #1 seed – through to quarterfinal;

Boys Doubles: Gareth Henry & Chadwick Parsons – through to round 2.

UNDER 17

Boys Singles: Delsang Lue-Taim #2 seed – through to quarterfinal;

Boys Doubles: Delsang Lue-Taim & Jordan Roberts – through to quarterfinal;

Mixed Doubles: Jordan Roberts & Mikaylia Haldane – through to quarterfinal.

UNDER 13

Boys Singles: Sean Wilson #1 seed – through to qtr-final; Samuel Ricketts – through to qtr-final;

Boys Doubles: Sean Wilson & Samuel Ricketts – through to qtr-final; Shevon Salmon & Victor del Valle (Guatemala) – through to qtr-final;

Girls Doubles: Jahvaine Henry & Jade Clarke – through to qtr-final;

Mixed Doubles: Sean Wilson & Jahvaine Henry – through to qtr-final.

UNDER 11

Boys Singles: Shane Wilson #1 seed – through to qtr-final;

Boys Doubles: Shane Wilson & Vinson Chiu (USA) – bye to qtr-final;

Mixed Doubles: Shane Wilson & Bianca Hall #2 seed – bye to qtr-final.

DEFEATED JAMAICAN PLAYERS:

UNDER 19

Boys Singles: Tossainte Taylor – lost round 3; Chadwick Parsons – lost round 2; Shawn Forrester – lost round 1.

Boys Doubles: Tossainte Taylor & Shawn Forrester – lost round 1.

UNDER 17

Boys Singles: Anthony McNee – lost round 2, Jordan Roberts – lost round 2;

Girls Singles: Mikaylia Haldane – lost round 2, Shakeria Bailey– lost round 1;

Girls Doubles: Mikaylia Haldane & Shakeria Bailey – lost round 1;

Mixed Doubles: Anthony McNee & Shakeria Bailey- lost round 2.

UNDER 15

Boys Singles: Johnathondavid Smith– lost round 1, Jon-Andrew Neita– lost round 2, Jonathon Tomlinson – lost round 3, Romone Robinson – lost round 1.

Girls Singles: Shana-Kay Bailey – lost round 3. Aleisha Cousins– lost round 2. Sheinell Hyatt – lost round 2. Stacey-Ann Blake – lost round 2.

Boys Doubles: Jon-Andrew Neita & Jonathon Tomlinson – lost round 2, Johnathondavid Smith & Romone Robinson – lost round 1.

Mixed Doubles: Jon-Andrew Neita & Shana-Kay Bailey – lost round 3; Johnathondavid Smith & Stacey-Ann Blake – lost round 2; Romone Robinson & Aleisha Cousins– lost round 1.

UNDER 13

Boys Singles: Shevon Salmon – lost round 3.

Girls Singles: Jahvaine Henry – lost round 2, Jade Clarke– lost round 2.

Samuel Ricketts & Jade Clarke – lost round 1.

UNDER 11

Boys Singles: Jourdan Hydol-Smith – lost round 1.

Girls Singles: Bianca Hall – lost round 1.

For individual match results go to: http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=23083

N.B. – The final placing of countries in the team event was:

1. Peru – gold; 2. Mexico – silver; 3. USA – bronze; 4. Brasil; 5. Jamaica; 6. Canada; 7. Guatemala; 8. Suriname; 9. Trinidad and Tobago.

The Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico also participated in the team event.