Beach volleyballers bow out

Jamaica's men's beach volleyball duo, Dellan Brown and Namari Gordon, bowed out of the competition at the XVI Pan American Games earlier this week after three consecutive defeats.

Brown and Gordon lost their final match 21-9, 21-15 to Guatemala's Andy Blanco and Erick Garrido at the Pan American Volleyball Stadium in Puerto Vallarta, 331 kilometres to the west of Guadalajara on the Pacific coach of Mexico.

Earlier, they were beaten 21-11, 21-13 by Puerto Rican duo Robert Rodriquez and Christopher Underwood on Monday in their opening match, before going down 21-13, 21-9 to Argentinia's Pablo Suarez and Santiago Etchegaray on Tuesday.

Trap shooting

Shooter Shaun Barnes, who was ranked at 26 of 28 at the end of day one of men's trap shooting qualification, dropped to 27 of 28 in the final two rounds yesterday. He had a final score of 101 - 23, 21, 20, 16 and 21.

Jan Brol of Guatemala pocketed the gold medal with an overall score of 124, Danilo Caro of Colombia took silver with 123, while the bronze medal went to American Matthew Gossett with 121.