Home Gas sweep aside Lady Heels to defend the championship title - Jun 13, 2012
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Cayman basketball has a new dynasty.
The Home Gas Flames recently won their second consecutive national women's championship. Home Gas completed a two-game sweep of the Dominos Lady Heels in the Cayman Islands Basketball Association 2012 national women's league finals.
The Flames wrapped it up on May 10 with a 54-53 victory in game two at Camana Bays Arts and Recreation Centre. Dominos head coach Collin Anglin states the loss is tough to take.
Its a tough pill to swallow, Anglin said. The ladies did good at the end of the day. They showed heart, never gave up and they made me proud. The Flames, they earned it. La-Torae Nixon and Sade Wood earned it by putting the team on their backs offensively. Hats off to them, they worked for it.
Nixon, who turned 15 this month, had another monster game with 27 points, eight rebounds, six steals and six blocks plus the series-clinching free-throw. Wood stepped up with 20 points (including two three-pointers), three assists and two steals.
The Lady Heels had three players in double digits. Dionne Anglin led the way with 20 points, 14 rebounds and three blocks. Hannah Parchment had 12 points, four assists and two steals though she missed the game-winning jumper. Sarah Kidd had 10 points, 10 rebounds and four steals.
Home Gas won game one 66-52 and have claimed both of their titles at Dominos expense. Coach Anglin states Nixons performance was the difference in the 2012 series.
La-Torae stepped up big with big baskets in the fourth quarter. She showed a lot of heart in game two when they took the lead in the fourth. The goal was to contain La-Torae and Sade and we did a good job. Im proud of my ladies because we know what we had to do to win the series.
Two of our starters werent there as Kamilla Nagy was off-island and Joanne Remillard was away for the second year in a row. Dionne was also injured and Courtisha Ebanks broke her ankle. We had to rely on the bench.
The Home Gas championship is the first for rookie head coach Bruce Reynolds, who spoke about the importance of earning the sweep.
We didnt want game three, everyone on the team wanted it now, Reynolds said. They didnt want to practice another Sunday, I wanted to get back to dealing with my kids. Dominos fought us but we wanted to win.
Courtesy of www.compasscayman.com
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Jamel Winton, ball, did his best to lead Cayman in Nassau. - PHOTO: MATTHEW YATES
Cayman basketball's latest bid for regional success did not go well.
John Gray High School's boys Under-19 team lost all three of its games in Nassau, Bahamas this month.
The U-19 team would suffer defeats at the hands of Charles Irvin Gibson Senior High School Rattlers, 74-13, in game one; private school St [read more]
Bahamians thrash our boys
Jamel Winton, ball, did his best to lead Cayman in Nassau. - PHOTO: MATTHEW YATES
Cayman basketball's latest bid for regional success did not go well.
John Gray High School's boys Under-19 team lost all three of its games in Nassau, Bahamas this month.
The U-19 team would suffer defeats at the hands of Charles Irvin Gibson Senior High School Rattlers, 74-13, in game one; private school St. Vincent Stingrays, 36-9, in game two; and Aquinas College, 45-34, in the finale.
Jamel Winton and Joshua Ebanks-Brown were the top performers for the Cayman Islands team during each of the three games. Other notable players included Rueben Barnes (game one), Alexander Thompson (game two) and Arin Taylor (game three).
In all, eight boys represented the Cayman Islands with the others being Daviel Foster, Douglas Henkis and Cameron Hydes. National men's coach Daniel Augustine helped train the squad with John Gray teacher Errol Grey serving as head coach.
John Gray competed in the exhibition games with the backing of the Cayman Islands Basketball Association.
Coach Grey aimed to find positives in the performance, saying the young men can go on to better results.
'It's about exposure and having them play at the international level,' Grey said. 'Winning will come at some time. They had three matches which will build a good team in the future that can represent Cayman at the international level.'
Director of Sports Collin Anglin states there are discussions ongoing between local government, the Cayman Islands Basketball Association and the National Collegiate Athletic Association on the possibility of staging a basketball tournament on Grand Cayman.
I dont want to divulge too much information as were waiting for things to happen, Anglin said. But there is something in the works and we hope to get absolute confirmation in the next three months [read more]
Director of Sports Collin Anglin states there are discussions ongoing between local government, the Cayman Islands Basketball Association and the National Collegiate Athletic Association on the possibility of staging a basketball tournament on Grand Cayman.
I dont want to divulge too much information as were waiting for things to happen, Anglin said. But there is something in the works and we hope to get absolute confirmation in the next three months.
An NCAA basketball tournament is being planned here. Government would support it but it would be a project outside of government. It would be a partnership between the association and the private sector.
The proposed time frame for the tournament would be late 2015, to coincide with the NCAA preseason for division one schools. Institutions like the University of Miami and the University of Florida play their seasons from November until March, climaxing with postseason competitions like the NCAA Tournament.
Anglin and other officials have reportedly received input in the discussions from former American basketball player Joe Wright. Anglin states the proposed Cayman tournament would cater to many schools.
This tournament is going to happen. We have passed information to various schools and it will be open, not just restricted to certain schools or divisions like the Atlantic Coast Conference. It would be a preseason kickoff tournament, like the Maui Classic. The Bahamas had one recently.
The proposed venue is the new John Gray High School indoor facility. That in itself is supposed to be epic and have seating for 2,500 people, wooden flooring and built for international standards for basketball, netball and volleyball.
It was started in the last administration, in Alden McLaughlins time. Agreements were signed under the Peoples Progressive Movement government. The facility is critical to our sports tourism product and the local sports scene.
Over the last two years, Nassau, Bahamas has staged a preseason tournament titled the Battle for Atlantis. Usually taking place in late November just before Thanksgiving, tournament action centres around Atlantis Resorts on Paradise Island. Matches are played in the Imperial Arena, a grand ballroom which is turned into a basketball venue.
The tournament is known for being the richest division one preseason event as schools are awarded $2 million in exchange for their participation. Last year, contests were televised on AXS TV and NBC Sports Network with the likes of ESPN, CBS and Fox Sports providing added media coverage.
In 2012, Mason Plumlee guided the Duke Blue Devils to the title, ahead of a field including the Louisville Cardinals and the Memphis Tigers. For 2013, the competing schools are expected to include the Kansas Jayhawks, University of Southern California Trojans and Michigan State Spartans.
Anglin states attracting American basketball powers here will be historic.
A tournament of this magnitude would be, I think, the biggest event in Caymans sports history when we think of the type of following and TV coverage with them. The economic impact these tournaments have proven to have in the past would be huge for Cayman.
Christopher Lopez, Bryce Thompson and Collin Barrett led the charge for Wahoo while Arin Taylor, Lloydell Williamson, Cameron Hydes and Azeem Burton led the way for Tarpon. Tarpon only led by 3 points at the end of the 3rd quarter, but exploded offensively in the 4th quarter; scoring 17 points and holding Wahoo to only 6 for a final score of 39-25 in favor of Tarpon [read more]
Christopher Lopez, Bryce Thompson and Collin Barrett led the charge for Wahoo while Arin Taylor, Lloydell Williamson, Cameron Hydes and Azeem Burton led the way for Tarpon. Tarpon only led by 3 points at the end of the 3rd quarter, but exploded offensively in the 4th quarter; scoring 17 points and holding Wahoo to only 6 for a final score of 39-25 in favor of Tarpon.
The finals MVP was Arin Taylor of Tarpon Academy who finished with 11 points, 4 assists and 3 steals; Cameron Hydes added 4 points, 8 rebounds and 3 steals.
For Wahoo: Christopher Lopez finished with 8 points, 4 rebounds and 4 steals.
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