Trinidad and To­ba­go's 'Ca­lyp­so Girls' breezed to a 76-45 win over St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines to im­prove to 2-0 in the Amer­i­c­as Net­ball World Cup Qual­i­fiers at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Com­plex, Bridgetown, St. Michael, Bar­ba­dos, on Tues­day.

Com­ing off a 61-45 tour­na­ment-open­ing win over Grena­da on Mon­day, the 12th-ranked 'Ca­lyp­so Girls' led in at­tack by Eng­land-based Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph, who stamped their au­thor­i­ty against the 19th-ranked St. Vin­cent and The Grenadines, who won their open­er, 50-48, over the USA, and led 17-9 at the end of the first 15-minute quar­ter.

The sec­ond quar­ter was more of the same for the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games cham­pi­ons, as they once again dom­i­nat­ed both ends of the court to win the quar­ter 19-8 to ex­tend their lead to 36-17 at the half-time in­ter­val.

With T&T ahead 49-22 in the third pe­ri­od, Wal­lace-Joseph made her ex­it with the very re­li­able Maikea Bram­ble step­ping in­to the shoot­ing po­si­tion, sup­port­ed by goal-at­tack and cap­tain Kali­fa Mc­Collin.

Bram­ble and Mc­Collin com­bined to pro­duce T&T's best-scor­ing quar­ter with 20 goals to St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines' 12 as they took a 56-29 lead in­to the fi­nal quar­ter.

The fi­nal 15-minute pe­ri­od was more of the same for T&T, with Bram­ble and Mc­Collin hav­ing their way with the op­pos­ing de­fense, while goal­keep­er Ane­cia Bap­tiste-Ro­driguez and goal­keep­er

Shaquan­da Greene-Noel kept things qui­et at the oth­er end as the 'Ca­lyp­so Girls' dom­i­nat­ed 17-12 to se­cure the com­fort­able win, 73-41 to join Cana­da with two wins from as many match­es.

Ear­li­er on Tues­day, Cana­da pun­ished the British Vir­gin Is­lands 67-20, and the USA over­came Grena­da 61-42.

On Mon­day, St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines edged USA 50-48; Cana­da de­feat­ed St. Lu­cia 34-25, and host Bar­ba­dos trounced the British Vir­gin Is­lands 79-14.

Speak­ing af­ter the win against St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines, T&T head coach Liselle John­son said she was pleased that her play­ers im­proved on their first-day per­for­mance.

John­son said, 'Com­ing out of the first game, we want­ed to play a more tac­ti­cal game and ex­e­cute our game plan, and the girls did that to­day (Tues­day).

Mc­Collin added, "One of the biggest things we want­ed to do was lim­it our er­rors, and to­day (Tues­day) we had a strong team ef­fort on de­fense, and I think it was the dif­fer­ence in the game to­day."

In the ear­li­er match­es, Cana­da faces St. Vin­cent and The Grenadines from 2 pm, fol­lowed by BVI against St. Lu­cia from 4 pm, and Bar­ba­dos against Grena­da from 6 pm.

Fol­low­ing the round-robin com­pe­ti­tion among the eight par­tic­i­pat­ing na­tions, the top two teams will ad­vance to the 2027 Net­ball World Cup in Syd­ney, Aus­tralia, from Au­gust 25 to Sep­tem­ber 5, 2027.

T&T NA­TION­AL TEAM

Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph, Ki­ra Roth­well, Kali­fa Mc Collin, Maikea Bram­ble, Pearl St John, Shantel Seemu­n­gal, Jere­cia Mc Eachrane, Shaquan­da Greene-Noel, Ane­cia Bap­tiste-Ro­driguez, Neke­sha Gomes, Crys­tal-Ann George, and Rayann Bris­tol.

Man­ag­er – Cyn­thia Stephen­son (man­ag­er), Liselle John­son (head coach), Leslie-Ann Bac­quain (as­sis­tant coach), Jerome Brown (mas­sage ther­a­pist), Cyd­ney Baird (phys­io­ther­a­pist).

Re­main­ing T&T sched­ule

TTO vs USA - Oct 21, 8pm

TTO vs Cana­da - Oct 23, 2pm

St Lu­cia vs TTO - Oct 24, 6pm

TTO vs BVI - Oct 25, 6pm

Bar­ba­dos vs TTO - Oct 26, 8pm