BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC):
JAMAICA'S young Sunshine Girls stormed to its second consecutive win as the seventh Caribbean Netball Association (CNA) Under-16 tournament continued yesterday at the Netball City, Warner Park.
After scoring a nine-goal win in their opening game win on Sunday night, the defending champions chalked up a massive 37-6 victory over Dominica to announce themselves as favourites to retain the championship.
In their opening game on Sunday night the Oberon Pitterson-coached Jamaicans, who have won all five regional youth tournaments they have contested, topped T&T 30-21 in a fluent display.
On the back of goal attack Vanessa Walker (18/31) and Danielle Ellis (12/17), the title-holders kept control of the game and held T&T at bay, leading the quarters 9-5, 17-10, 23-16 en route to victory.
Jolisa Cooper (15/30) and K'lene Lewis (6/11) led the T&T scoring.
Meanwhile, Barbados and hosts St. Kitts who were slated to meet last night, also completed back-to-back wins on Sunday.
Barbados whipped Dominica 33-14, and St. Kitts defeated former champions St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) 28-22.
St. Kitts handed former champions SVG their second defeat in as many nights when shooter Ronel Morton (21/28) and goal attack Sherima Stanley (7/12) carried them to the six-goal win.
The Kittitians fell just below the 31 points they collected to beat Grenada on the opening night, but were steady and shrugged off the 1999 champions with quarterly leads of 6-5, 12-9, and 21-16.
SVG got their goals from Austina Kydd (13/17) and Shalisa Davis (9/15).
Showing themselves as one of the tournament favourites, Barbados jumped into a solid 9-3 first quarter advantage and led the remaining frames 17-7 and 24-12 en route to easily dismissing Dominica by 19 goals.
Goal attack Shanice Banfield netted a game-high 20 goals from 38 attempts to lead the Barbadians, who had knocked off T&T in their opening game on Saturday night.
Abeje Carrington (12/26) and captain Shakira Springer (1/3) were the other scorers for Barbados.
