Maikea Bram­ble im­pressed in the shoot­ing cir­cle, scor­ing all of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ (UWI) goals but her team was on the los­ing end in a com­pet­i­tive con­test against MIC Tigers in the open­ing match of the Jean Pierre Chal­lenge for teams in the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion in the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League.

The goal-shoot­er shot with 92 per cent ac­cu­ra­cy, net­ting 46 goals from 50 at­tempts but UWI fell to a heart­break­ing one-goal de­feat, 47-46, to be elim­i­nat­ed from the Knock­out com­pe­ti­tion at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Bram­ble helped her team re­cov­er af­ter be­ing down in the first two quar­ters, an eight-goal (16-8) deficit in the open­ing stan­za but closed in 26-23 at the half in the four 15-minute-a-quar­ter con­test.

MIC, led by the shoot­ing of goal-shoot­er Tiffany Gon­za­les 34/51 and goal-at­tack El­isha Ramkissoon, fought back in the third to take a nar­row two-goal (35-33) ad­van­tage head­ing in­to the fourth quar­ter. UWI re­fused to go away though and ral­lied back to outscore the Tigers, 13-12, but it was not enough and had to set­tle for the one-goal de­feat.

Gon­za­les fin­ished with 34 goals from 51 at­tempts and El­isha Ramkissoon 13 in 22 tries to see their team move on to face De­fence Force, who was on a bye in the open­ing round, in the semi­fi­nals.

Lat­er, Bermudez booked its spot in the semi­fi­nal round af­ter eas­i­ly de­feat­ing Po­lice Net­ball Youth Club (PNYC), 60-21. The quar­ter scores read 14-2 in the first, 28-8 at half­time and 44-13 in the third all in favour of Bermudez, thanks to the shoot­ing of Nekeisha Gomes, who scored a match-high 51 in 62 be­fore seal­ing the huge 39-goal win.

Za­kiya McKen­na and Jo­ce­lyn Mar­celle, who shared the goal-at­tack bib, scored two and sev­en from five and nine tries, re­spec­tive­ly, for the win­ner.

For PNYC, goal-at­tack Kaliyah Coop­er led with 11 off and goal-shoot­er Cheryse James added the oth­er 10 goals from 21 at­tempts.

Bermudez moves on to meet the win­ner be­tween the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) and Po­lice in their first-round match-up which takes place to­mor­row at 6.45 pm.

The Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion’s knock­out com­pe­ti­tion al­so start­ed on Sun­day but on­ly one of the four match­es sched­uled was played, the oth­ers de­fault­ed.

Goal-shoot­er Karis­sa Grant scored 16 off 25 to guide Fire to a 19-14 win over the Uni­ver­si­ty of the South­ern Caribbean (USC) in the 15-minute-a-half match. The Fire team ad­vances to the semi­fi­nals to face PNYC, who won af­ter TT Post for­feit­ed.

The oth­er semi­fi­nal­ists are UTC and De­fence Force, who al­so pro­gressed af­ter their re­spec­tive op­po­nents, Po­lice and UTT, for­feit­ed their match­es.

Ac­tion in both di­vi­sion­al knock­out com­pe­ti­tions con­tin­ues to­mor­row from 5.30 pm.

Re­sults

Knock­out Com­pe­ti­tion

Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion - Jean Pierre Chal­lenge

UWI 46 (Maikea Bram­ble 46/50, Rick­ibah Isaac 0/1) vs MIC 47 (Tiffany Gon­za­les 34/51, El­isha Ramkissoon 13/22). Quar­ter scores: 1st 16-8 (MIC), 2nd 26-23 (MIC), 3rd 35-33 (UWI)

Bermudez 60 (Nekeisha Gomes 51/62, Za­kiya McKen­na 2/5, Jo­ce­lyn Mar­celle 7/9) vs PNYC 21 (Cheryse James 10/21, Kaliyah Coop­er 11/22). Quar­ter scores: 1st 14-2, 2nd 28-8, 3rd 44-13 (All in favour of Bermudez).

Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion

Fire 19 (Karis­sa Grant 16/25, Natha­lyia Fletch­er 2/7, Thyana An­drews 1/1) vs USC 14 (Gel­lana Grant 7/16, Ki­mo­la Mc Mil­lan 7/9). Half time: 12-8 (Fire)

Po­lice vs UTC. UTC won af­ter Po­lice for­feit­ed.

De­fence Force vs UTT. UTT won af­ter De­fence Force for­fi­et­ed

PNYC vs TT Post. PNYC won af­ter TT Post for­feit­ed

To­mor­row’s match­es

UTC vs De­fence Force, 5.30 pm

Fire vs PNYC, 6.10 pm

Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion - Jean Pierre Chal­lenge

UTT vs Po­lice, 6.45 pm