The number 13 is usually associated with bad fortune in the world of sports and Guyana’s junior squash team were the latest group of athletes to be on the receiving end of that truth after they surrendered the 2017 junior Caribbean championship to arch rivals Barbados at the Georgetown Club, yesterday, preventing the hosts from capturing their 13th consecutive championship.
The Barbadians, on their way to capturing their 2017 title, were vociferous during their chants -“Big up a team like Barbados”- at the end of every match won.
They went on to inflict a 5-0 hammering of the hosts in the girls’ matchup where Makeda Harding, Rebecca Low, Taylor Fernandes all suffered defeats which preceded the
