Hosts Canada Strike Gold On Final Day At
PanAm Juniors
Canada,
hosting the event for the first time, struck gold on the final day of
the Pan American Junior Squash Championships with success in the
Women's Team event in Toronto.
The 17th
staging of the championships - including singles, doubles and team
events - was held at the Mayfair Lakeshore Racquet Club, where
Canada recovered from a match down in the women's team final to beat
Ecuador 2/1.
It was a
similar story in the Men's Team final where Argentina fought back
to beat Mexico 2/1 after the runners-up conceded the second
match.
Mexico
and Ecuador jointly topped the medals tables, each with one gold,
two silvers and one bronze.
It was in
the men's singles final that Mexico struck historic gold when
Leonardo Vargas beat Juan Carlos Vargas in the first ever
final between twins.
Colombia came away with four medals - winning
gold in the Women's Doubles when Lucia Bautista & Amalia Rios
fought back from a game down to overcome Nina Mital & Molly
Stoltz of the USA in the final.
There was
a surprise gold for Barbados in the Mixed Doubles when Meagan
Best & Khamal Cumberbatch upset both the No.1 and No.2 seeds
to claim the title.
Peru
came away with a single medal - but it was gold when Rafael Gálvez
& Martin Leon also defeated the top two seeds to triumph in the
Men's Doubles.
RESULTS:
Men's Individual Semi-Finals:
[1] Leonardo Vargas (MEX) bt Spencer Yager (USA) 11-5,
13-11, 8-11, 11-6
Juan Carlos Vargas (MEX) bt [2] Jeremías Azaña (ARG) 11-9,
2-11, 8-11, 13-11, 11-9
Final:
[1] Leonardo Vargas (MEX) bt Juan Carlos Vargas (MEX)
10-12, 12-10, 11-9, 11-8
Women's
Individual Semi-Finals
Maria Moya (ECU) bt Lucia Bautista (COL) 6-11, 11-5, 11-5,
11-8
Meagan Best (BAR) bt [2] Brianna Jefferson (CAN) 11-5,
11-5, 11-7
Final:
Maria Moya (ECU) bt Meagan Best (BAR) 6-11, 11-9, 11-9,
11-8
Men's
Doubles Semi-Finals:
Rafael Gálvez & Martin Leon (PER) bt [1] Jeremías Azaña
& Dylan Tymkiw (ARG) 11-4, 11-5
[2] Nicolas Serna & Andres Villamizar (COL) bt Diego
Agreda & Vladimir Iglesias (ESA) 11-6, 11-6
Final:
Rafael Gálvez & Martin Leon (PER) bt [2] Nicolas Serna
& Andres Villamizar (COL) 5-11, 11-7, 11-10
Women's
Doubles Semi-Finals:
Nina Mital & Molly Stoltz (USA) bt Katya Aceituno &
Erika Parker (ESA) 11-6, 11-9
Lucia Bautista & Amalia Rios (COL) bt Maria Caridad
Buenano & Fabiana Garcia (ECU) 11-8, 11-4
Final:
Lucia Bautista & Amalia Rios (COL) bt Nina Mital &
Molly Stoltz (USA) 6-11, 11-6, 11-10
Mixed
Doubles Semi-Finals:
[1] Maria Moya & David Costales (ECU) bt Valentina
Portieri & Francisco Paita (ARG) 11-6, 11-5
Meagan Best & Khamal Cumberbatch (BAR) bt [2] Brianna
Jefferson & Nikhil Ismail (CAN) 11-5, 11-4
Final:
Meagan Best & Khamal Cumberbatch (BAR) bt [1] Maria
Moya & David Costales (ECU) 11-6, 9-11, 11-7
Men's
Team Sem-Finals:
MEXICO bt USA 2/1
Leonardo Vargas lost to Maxwell Orr 7-11, 10-12, 6-11
Juan Carlos Vargas bt Spencer Yager 13-11, 12-10, 11-9
Axel Maldonado Juarez bt Conner Stoltz 11-6, 5-11, 12-10,
11-5
ARGENTINA bt COLOMBIA 2/1
Jeremías Azaña bt Nicolas Serna 11-6, 11-5, 11-5
Dylan Tymkiw bt Andres Villamizar 11-9, 13-11, 5-11, 11-9
Lisandro Ortiz lost to Juan Jose Torres Lara 11-9, 6-11,
7-11, 8-11
Final:
ARGENTINA bt MEXICO 2/1
Jeremías Azaña lost to Leonardo Vargas 7-11, 7-11, 3-11
Dylan Tymkiw w/o
Francisco Paita bt Axel Maldonado Juarez 11-7, 10-12,
7-11, 11-0, 11-4
Women's Team Semi-Finals
ECUADOR bt MEXICO 2/1
Maria Moya lost to Mariana Narvaez Dardon 10-12, 11-13,
9-11
Maria Caridad Buenano bt Miriam Alejandra Ortiz Rubio
11-7, 11-7, 11-9
Emilia Falconi bt Paola Franco 11-4, 13-11, 12-10
CANADA bt USA 2/1
Charlotte Orcutt bt Binney Huffman 11-8, 11-7, 11-5
Brianna Jefferson bt Renee Chan 11-6, 3-11, 11-7, 9-11,
11-9
Molly Chadwick lost to Molly Stoltz 9-11, 5-11, 11-6, 9-11
Final:
CANADA bt ECUADOR 2/1
Charlotte Orcutt lost to Maria Moya 7-11, 7-11, 6-11
Brianna Jefferson bt Maria Caridad Buenano 10-12, 11-7,
11-8, 6-11, 11-6
Erica McGillicuddy bt Emilia Falconi 11-6, 11-8, 11-4
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