MONTEGO BAY, St James - The top four regular
season finishers in the 2010 Lucozade Sport Men's Basketball
Championship are in action this weekend at the Montego Bay
Cricket Club Multipurpose Court, as teams contest a grueling
semi-final series.
Game one of the Hanover derby is set for 5:30pm: when the
reigning Mid-Season and regular season Champions, Lucea
Flames will duel the fourth-placed Hopewell Vipers. Flames
have beaten Vipers each time they have gone head to head in
the regular season and the League's scoring leader is Craig
Dorman who is also ranked #2 in the steals category. Not to
be outdone, Vipers has the services of the league third
highest scorer with Dwight Reid. The rivalry between these
two teams is very competitive and intense; the excitement
should be very high.
In the second match at 7:30, Montego Bay Cricket Club
Knights who ended the regular season in second spot will be
trying to withstand the assault of the very experienced
third placed finisher Sav-La-Mar Hawks. After facing each
other twice, both teams share an equal one win-one loss
record. Despite their age and experience in comparison to
the veterans (Hawks), Knights have much to be proud of; even
though Flames are #1, Knights have scored the highest points
this year amassing a whopping 911 points (Flames - 778).
Knights also have the second highest scorer in Omroy Kerr
plus this team has the greatest number of assists @ 244 and
rebounds @ 507.
The second game of this best of three will be the following
Saturday, July 31st with a third game of each series if
necessary, will be on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at the same
venue.
