YMCA Capita Finance Wildcats are the 2016 champions of the Barbados Amateur Basketball Association (BABA) Under 19 Summer Jam competition. Playing at the Barbados Community College on Sunday, the Wildcats came up against the Burger King Clapham Bulls and walked away with their third straight title thanks to an 81-78 down-to-the-wire victory. At the half the scores were locked at 35-35 and with under 10 seconds to go in the game the scores were again tied at 78-78. An offensive rebound and a put back, plus a chance to complete an 'And 1' play by Zachary Cave, gave the Wildcats the lead. Cave scored but was unable to continue. However his teammate completed the three-point play by scoring the free throw. Despite scoring a game-high 27 points for the Bulls, Shaquan Newton could not get his time over the line. Newton was supported by Andrew Ifill (180-F) who finished with 22 points, while Shaquan Carrington (180-G) and Matayas Kola each scored 10 points. For the victorious Wildcats Joel Hunte scored 25 points, Cave finished on 16, Alec Green had 11, while Joshua Lowe and Theo Greenidge scored 10 points each. Courtesy of: loopnewsbarbados.com
Guyana stuns Barbados to take border clash - 7 days ago
POSTED BY:
EUROBASKET NEWS
follow us on
IN what was to be Barbados' moment on home soil in the first basketball series/tournament in 18 years, Guyana upset the apple cart with a 79-68 victory over the home boys to claim the 2018 Border Clash Basketball Series. It was a true persistent effort by Guyana to come from 0-1 down in the series to win back-to-back games and carry away the series 2-1. The team in green came out to win and started as such with a 10-2 run in the first quarter, which left Barbados scrambling for an early t... [read more]
IN what was to be Barbados' moment on home soil in the first basketball series/tournament in 18 years, Guyana upset the apple cart with a 79-68 victory over the home boys to claim the 2018 Border Clash Basketball Series. It was a true persistent effort by Guyana to come from 0-1 down in the series to win back-to-back games and carry away the series 2-1. The team in green came out to win and started as such with a 10-2 run in the first quarter, which left Barbados scrambling for an early time-out with only three minutes played in the game. Guyana pushed the ball up court and not a defender was able to keep pace. Fortunately the time-out did its job and the local boys came alive much to the excitement of the fans. In quick time the score was tied and then Barbados went up 10-12 with 4:09 left in the first. Some crisp passing and the reduction in turnovers was the solution. The issue for Barbados was that they could not keep the switch off or on low and throughout the game coughed up turnovers (23) and Guyana used them to covert 17 points on the scoreboard. For the first time in the series, Guyana led the game from start to finish, taking the first quarter 24-20 and going into the half-time break up 10, 46-36. Both teams came out with the nerves in the third. It took more than two minutes before the first basket was scored in the period. It would be a trend that continued ironically for Barbados, knowing they needed to be the ones who put more points on the board to cut the lead. It was to be their worst quarter of the series, not even mustering double-digits in the ten-minute period. Guyana had stretched the advantage to 17 (62-45) by the start of the game using one system continually, attack. It was an all-out pace attack of the Barbados defence, which fell short time and time again. Along with the obvious weakness of not being able to grab defensive rebounds, allowed Guyana to earn more chances to score and score they did. It was only in the last five minutes of the game where Guyana tried to kill the clock did the scoring slow down for the visitors where Barbados started to make the in vain run to catch the leaders. It was all but too late and as the clock showed seven seconds, Barbados allowed the opponents to dribble out the clock and secure the 2-1 series win on foreign soil. Barbados was out-rebounded and out-hustled and got a warm baptism to what the FIBA AmeriCup 2021 Caribbean Pre-Qualifier will be like in Suriname from June 22 to July 1. Guyana was led by Captain Stanton Rose (G-99), who had a game-high 15 points. Ray Victor (183-G-88, college: Warner) exploded off the bench with 13 points and 7 rebounds while Felice Hamilton had the hot hand late with 11. The local boys saw Andre Lockhart (183-PG-86, college: Queens, NC) top score with 13 points and 5 rebounds with help from Junior Moore with 10 points, 5 rebounds and Ricardo Jemmott who had 9 points and 8 rebounds. Courtesy of: barbadosadvocate.com
WITH eight minutes left on the clock, Guyana took the lead in the Border Clash Basketball Series yesterday at the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex and it would be a lead they would never re-linquish as they took Game 2, 70-64, to even the series and announce to Barbados they would have to fight to win. It was 57-56 to Guyana after Guyana Captain Stanton Rose hit a step back trey, his only three of the game, to put his side up. He followed that up with a switch hand lay-up off the glass over... [read more]
WITH eight minutes left on the clock, Guyana took the lead in the Border Clash Basketball Series yesterday at the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex and it would be a lead they would never re-linquish as they took Game 2, 70-64, to even the series and announce to Barbados they would have to fight to win. It was 57-56 to Guyana after Guyana Captain Stanton Rose hit a step back trey, his only three of the game, to put his side up. He followed that up with a switch hand lay-up off the glass over Barbados Forward Charles Vanderpool (203-F/C-87, college: Bridgeport) to lift his team up by three, which caused Coach Nigel Lloyd of Barbados to call a time-out. It was a time-out that bore no fruit as the home team was outscored 20-10 in the final quarter as Guyana made a stamp on the three-game series with a performance which was significantly better than Game 1. Guyana were down for the majority of the game, but were able to keep pace with Barbados even with Barbados Point Guard Jeremy Gill (183-G-81) having another good game. Keefe Birkett (183-G-88) was also playing well and the two - Gill and Birkett - ended up being the only two Bajan players in double-digits with 13 and 15 respectively. The visitors shot a horrible 27 per cent from the field, however it was realised early that the Barbadian defence of the key was poor and as such, there was a persistent attack of the paint. It resulted in 32 points in the paint from lay-ups and putbacks from offensive rebounds. At half-time the score was 31-34 to Barbados and Guyana just needed to stay close before the strike in the second half. Barbados also had a bad night with the ball and turned the ball over 24 times, which the opponents converted into 24 fast break points. The defence was one other key with Guyana stealing the ball from the Bajan players an incredible 18 times. Another was rebounds; even in the last 25 seconds, they had two offensive rebounds, leaving Barbados scrambling and the coach shouting to foul to stop the clock, but it only resulted in a free dunk by Anthony Moe (206-F/C, college: Millersville) with six seconds left in the game. Travis Burnett (183-PG-88) of Guyana started the aggressive attack of the paint for Guyana and caused the change in the tide. Even though he only played ten minutes, he put up 8 points with 3 steals. Harold Adams was the team-high scorer with 15 points, 5 rebounds and 3 steals. Anthony Moe, who controlled his temper and mouth a lot better in Game 2, was also able to let the basketball do the talking and finished with 13 points and 7 rebounds. At the end the series was tied 1-1, with one game left to see who would be the victors in the KFC CEE Vision Sports Border Clash Basketball Series. It has to be seen which team finds the right combination to make it to the top. Courtesy of: barbadosadvocate.com
FIBA Americas Regional Referee Training Camp hailed a 'Success' The recently concluded FIBA Americas regional Referee Training Camp is being hailed as a 'success by the participants, including aspiring FIBA referees from Guyana, Grenada, The Bahamas, Barbados, and Suriname. The training programme, which was held for a period of one week in Guyana, saw referees and table officials, from several regional countries in the Caribbean being guided by FIBA elite referee Roberto Vazquez (Olymp... [read more]
FIBA Americas Regional Referee Training Camp hailed a 'Success'
The
recently concluded FIBA Americas regional Referee Training Camp is
being hailed as a 'success' by the participants, including aspiring FIBA
referees from Guyana, Grenada, The Bahamas, Barbados, and Suriname.
The training programme, which was held for a period of one week in
Guyana, saw referees and table officials, from several regional
countries in the Caribbean being guided by FIBA elite referee Roberto Vazquez (Olympic Games 2016 and World Cup 2014) and Frederick Brown, FIBA Americas National Instructor.
The programme was facilitated by the Guyana Amateur Basketball
Federation (GABF) and was held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall
(Practical) and at Palm Court (Theory) Over 18 persons attended.
Participants were taught the FIBA Basketball Rules, more so elaborating
on the Travel Violation, Unsportsmanlike Foul and Contact Criteria
using the FIBA Basketball Rules Official Interpretations.
The FIBA Americas Regional Training Camp was designed to improve the
Officiating Team in the FIBA National Federations, and identify possible
potential prospects at National Level to be future FIBA Referees in
order to support Licensing 2019 and facilitating 2-6 years planning to
scout National talents in time.
'I thought it was really welcoming to see the participants all eager to
learn, and the way everyone was ready to be engaging, tells me that the
future of officiating in the Caribbean seems bright,' Brown told
Chronicle Sport at the conclusion of the programme.
The well-respected Bahamian stated that currently, there are very few
active regional officials on the FIBA Referees' list, and as such,
systems are being put in place by basketball's world governing body, to
ensure that the pool of officials is big enough to give the Caribbean an
opportunity to expand the game.
Meanwhile, Vazquez, one of basketball's top referees, also echoed those
sentiments of the FIBA Instructor, adding, 'I was impressed with the
commitment of the participants, and it shows that they have always been
eager to learn, but never had this kind of training. I know I will see
them on the FIBA list and I hope they now go back to their countries and
share the things they were taught.'
President of the GABF, Nigel Hands,
said his Federation was happy to play a part in the programme and said
the information handed to the Guyanese officials who participated, will
certainly help lift the standard of basketball in Guyana. Patrick Haynes - GABF General Secretary and CBC Vice President along with Michael Singh - GABF Vice President were also present on the programme's final day and assisted with the presentation of certificates.
WARNING:
Do not copy, redistribute, publish or otherwise exploit information that you download from the site !
Do not encumber, license, modify, publish, sell, transfer or transmit, or in any way exploit, any of the
content of the site, nor will you attempt to do so.
