Last weekend, Caribbean and Guyana Junior Under-15 Champion Shomari Wiltshire won the 2018 Newport Steamer Summer Gold Under-15 Squash Tournament, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
With 280 players registered for the tournament, (Gold Tournaments rank second to the Junior Championships (JCT) in the USA), it was one of the largest non JCT events for the year. Wiltshire, who won the Finger Lakes Gold Tournament in September 2017, and had accumulated points at the US Junior Squash Open in December 2017, was the Number One seed in the Boys Under-15 draw.
In the first round, Wiltshire defeated Omar Cochinwala 11 – 2, 11 – 4, 11 – 5, and in the second round he defeated Isaac Mitchell 11 – 5, 11 – 1, 11 – 4, to reach the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals he faced Ashton Monteiro, who had finished runner-up in the Washington DC Gold Tournament, earlier in the summer. Wiltshire lost the first game 7 – 11, but bounced back to win the next three games 11 – 2, 11 – 6, 11 – 7.
