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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 6, 2016 - National youth team
captain Marlon “Waldo” Phillip and team-mate Nicholas Prescott
led from the front as defending champions Technocrats improved
to a 2-0 record in the Flow-sponsored T&T Volleyball Federation
Men’s Premier Division with a come-from-behind win over a T&T
Development Squad on Sunday.
Technocrats overcame a slow start to prevail 28-30, 25-20,
25-15, 25-19 at the Southern Regional Indoor Sports Arena,
Pleasantville. Phillip ended the match with 20 points which
featured 13 spikes and seven blocks and Prescott provided
support with 17 points, which was laced with 16 spikes while
Newton Grant had ten.
Also among the scorers were the veteran trio of Kelvin Alleyne
(eight) and Hollis Charles and Sean Morrison, with seven each as
they dominated on spikes 48-33, blocks 8-5 and aces,
14-2. Enrique Henry had 17 and Adriel Roberts, nine for the
national youth development squad.
The win lifted Technocrats to seven points, three behind
Southern United Volleyball Academy (SUVA) (2-1) which followed
by sweeping Titans on Saturday, 3-0. However, going after a
third win on Sunday, SUVA was stunned by Defence Force 25-17,
22-25, 25-16, 21-25, 15-17.
Leading the way for Defence Force was Christian Francois with 20
points, which included 19 spikes, and the pair of Jeremy Solomon
and Rawle Romain, who both got ten points. SUVA, meanwhile which
dominated on spikes, 48-37 and blocks, 14-11, but still went
under had 15 points each from national assistant coach, Essiel
Seecharan and T&T middle-blocker, Kevin Nimrod.
Fellow national middle-blocker Russel Pena, Rene Roberts and
Maalik Springle added nine, eight and seven points respectively
for SUVA. And in the opening men’s match on Sunday, former
France-based T&T international Ryan Stewart tallied 18 points in
firing former champions, Glamorgan past Titans 25-18, 25-21,
25-16 to move to seven points as well.
Rodney Creston chipped in with six and the trio of Brandon
Horsham, Colin Felician and Shervon Calliste, five apiece for
Glamorgan who outscored its rival on spikes, 39-17 and also
committed lesser errors, 25-26. For Titans, which led on service
aces, 7-6 with blocks teams having five blocks each, Enrique
Henry got eight points, Josima Timothy seven, and Adriel
Roberts, six in the loss.
Meanwhile in the women’s division, former champions, Glamorgan
and T&T Development Squad got their first taste of
victory. Beaten on the opening night by bitter rival
Technocrats, Glamorgan whipped past champion, University of T&T
25-14, 25-20, 25-17. Youth team spiker Reann Young and senior
team middle-blocker Jalicia Ross-Kydd added five points for
Glamorgan which outscored its opponent on aces, 6-3 and
benefited from 45 unforced errors by UTT.
Shernice De Four had a team-high seven points and the duo of
Rejeanne Wallace and Kerdisha Sutherland, six points each for
UTT which managed to be on par in spikes with Glamorgan at
21-each also held the edge on blocks 4-3 in the 70-minutes
contest. The win lifted Glamorgan to a 2-1 record and nine
points, one behind Technocrats (2-0) while Southern United
Volleyball Academy (SUVA) is third with five points, one more
than Big South East Port-of-Spain (SEPoS).
National youth team skipper, Nicolette De Mille tallied 18
points and Olympic beach volleyball hopeful Malika Davidson
added 15 to inspire the T&T Development Squad to a 22-25, 25-23,
25-23, 24-26, 15-8 defeat of West Side Stars in the day’s other
women’s match.
Kerdisha Sutherland also contributed eight points for the
national youth developmental team while Latifa Gonzales (15),
Saderami Williams (11) and Anyika Joseph (nine) were the main
scorers for West Side Stars in the loss. With the win, the T&T
youngsters improved to four points, the same as SEPoS. |
