The story of the day today was the scintillating play of Zico Correia who campaigned in the 11-13 boys division and shot the only subpar round of the tournament, a brilliant 70 for a total of 220, which helped bring the curtain down on the Ninth Republic Bank Caribbean Junior Open at the beautiful St Andrews Golf Course in Moka, Maraval, yesterday.
Correira's performance saw him overhaul the overnight leader Chris Richards Jnr (75) who finished on 223. In third place was Theo Jean-Noel (76) of Guadeloupe on 239 from a field of 112 juniors who showed that they had a great time.
Serena Mackenzie behind scores of (80, 82, 82) for a total of 244 as the defending Champion in the girls 16-17 age group defended her title with aplomb winning by 17 strokes from Sarah Ramphal (255), Karina Marabadal finished third on (267).
In the boys 14 to 15 age group overnight leader Demar James (79) of Antigua extended his lead to win by nine shots with a total of 248 from Nathan Regalan (80) of Guadeloupe. T&T's Dravid Bhim (85) finished third on 263 (it must be noted that this division played from the longer Blue tees)
The girl's 14-15 age group Yeji Lee lost her title to Barbadian Emily Odwin who had three scores in the 70's (79,79,78) to total 236. Yeji had three scores of 82 to total 246. Ashley Michel of the Bahamas finished in third place with 266.
In the girls 13 and under competition, Barbadian Eryn Blakely(91, 82, 82) continued to dominate shooting a total score of 255. She beat fellow Bahamian Kyndal Campbell who finished on a total of 289. T&T's Chloe Ajodha finished third on 307.
