Somersfield Dominates BSSF Girls Badminton
Somersfield Academy had an impressive medal haul at the Bermuda School Sports Federations Middle School Girls Badminton Tournament.
Somersfield had all four players in the Semi-Finals in the Over 13 Division. Dezirae Darrell defeated Paige Lindo 11-4 to win the Final. Darrell defeated Zoe Mir 11-2 in the Semi-Final while Lindo overcame Emma Hales in the other Semi-Final 11-2. Mir went on the defeat Hales 11-3 in the third-place match.
Mir and Lindo teamed up to win the Doubles Final 11-2 over Darrell and Hales. Mir and Lindo defeated the Warwick Academy pair of Jada-Lai Gibbons and Nia Mullings 11-3 in the Semi-Final while Darrell and Hales defeated Khloie Davis and Evelyn Czember from Saltus 11-4. Gibbons and Mullins defeated Czember and Davis 11-7 in the third-place match.
It was an all-Somersfield Final in the Under 13 Division as well with Cora DeSilva defeating Leilani Carpol 11-3 in the final. Carpol defeated Alexis Sousa from Mount Saint Agnes 11-4 in their Semi-Final, while DeSilva overcame Warwick’s Nila Samuels in the other Semi-Final. Samuels defeated Sousa 11-6 in the third-place match.
Carpol teamed up with Sienna Harper to win the Doubles Final 11-8 over DeSilva and Lola Reape. The champions defeated Samuels and Anna Friston from Warwick Academy in their Semi-Final, while Reape and DeSilva defeated the MSA pair of Sousa and Semaj Basden-Scott 11-5. The Warwick pair defeated MSA 11-6 in the third-place match.
