Homer, Johnson U-13 champs

Bespectacled Jamaali Homer on the attack on Saturday in the final of the girls’ U-13 category of the National Sports Commission Youth Week tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. (Orlando Charles photo)

National players Jamaali Homer and Elishaba Johnson covered themselves with glory when they won the under-13 girls and boys’ categories respectively as the annual National Sports Commission (NSC) table tennis tournament continued yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

In the girls’ U-13 final, Homer of the Malteenoes Sports Club, defeated arch-rival and fellow Marian Academy student, Priscilla Greaves by three games to none winning 12-10, 11-9, 11-6.

In the boys’ under-13 category, Johnson, son of national coach Linden Johnson, defeated nine-year-old Tyriq Saunders of