MONTEGO BAY, St James - Lucea Flames of Hanover won
their second straight Western Basketball Association
Division One mid-season final on Sunday after beating
pre-game favorites Sav Hawks 65-50 at the Montego Bay
Cricket Club.
Flames, who had beaten Hopewell Vipers in the all-Hanover
mid-season final last season, dominated the game with the
league's top scorer Craig Dorman getting a game-high
27 points and his brother Kurt pulling down 17 rebounds
along with 15 points.
Dorman
Flames, a finalist and semi-finalist the last two seasons,
qualified for the mid-season final after Montego Bay Cricket
Club Knights failed by two points in their big win over
Junior Avalanche on Wednesday.
Four teams had finished the first round tied on 10 points,
but with Hawks and Flames having the best goal difference,
that was used as the first tiebreaker.
Flames got off to a good start on Sunday and were up by nine
points (16-7) after the first quarter, and despite a rally
by Hawks in the second, they still trailed 28-24 at
half-time.
Both teams upped the tempo in the second half, but Hawks
failed to match Flames who outscored them 37-26 over the
third and fourth quarters.
In addition to his 27 points, Craig Dorman also had
10 rebounds, three assists and five steals; while Alrick
Haughton also contributed with nine points and seven
rebounds.
Blackwood
Kenneth Blackwood
led Hawks with 12 points, Richard Chambers and
Troy Reid scored nine points each, while George
Beckford scored seven.
Meanwhile, the second round is set to commence this weekend
with two games set for Saturday and one Sunday.
