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T&T girls going for CAZOVA beaver-trick
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, July 8, 2015 - Trinidad and Tobago will be
going after a beaver-trick of crowns from Thursday when the
CAZOVA (Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association) Youth Girls
Championships serves off in Curacao.
The tournament will be contested until Sunday and there will be
only three challengers – Barbados, Bonaire and the host country.
At the conclusion of the straight round-robin competition on
Friday night, the teams will do battle in the semifinals (with
the team with the best record squaring off against the team with
the worst, and the second and third-placed teams meeting) the
following night.
The champions will be crowned from 4 p.m. on Sunday.
T&T have walked away with the gold medal every time as the
female edition of this tournament has only been staged on three
occasions.
Trinidad & Tobago were the host country in the inaugural
competition in 2007 and again in the previous edition in ’13,
the year after the tournament was staged in the United States
Virgin Islands.
Barbados, two-time gold-medalists in the male edition of the
tournament, collected the bronze medal when only three countries
participated in ’07 and were also last, of four, five years
later in their other outing.
Curacao, crowned boys’ champs when there was no girls’
tournament in ’10, is fielding a female team for the first time,
while Bonaire has never been represented in either event.
T&T will oppose Barbados in the first match at 5.30 p.m. on
Thursday and Curacao and Bonaire will clash at 8 p.m.
The teams are scheduled to play twice on Friday.
Barbados and Bonaire will square off at 9 a.m. and Curacao and
Bonaire will do battle at 10.30 a.m.
The night schedule will begin with Bonaire facing T&T at 6 p.m.
and the round-robin phase will end two hours later with Barbados
tackling Curacao.
The semis and will take place at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday
and the champs will be crowned at 4 p.m. the following day. |
