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April
1, 2008
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Match Report: Round Three
Hoopers Outplays Lions to
Make It three in a Row
Led by three players in double figures,
the only undefeated team in the Lucozade Sport Men’s
Basketball Championship – Hoopers continued their
blazing hot streak. Omar Bell, Andrae Morgan
and Omar “Freekis” Taylor all scored 18 points
respectively for a combined 54 points on their way to
demolishing Bay City Lions in Saturday’s lone game.
Ironically, Lions were in attack mode at the start of
the game. They were right on point and accurate in their
shot selections, defensively they even restricted
Hoopers to win the quarter 19-15. However, by the second
quarter Lions seemed hapless or should we say Hoopers
turned up the pressure and scoring 23 points to Lions
seven, both teams went into halftime 38-26 in favour of
Hoopers. Floyd Dixon personally made it a point
of his duty to keep Lions in the game, single handedly
he paved holes into his opponent’s defense, but it was
to be short-lived as Hoopers ran away in the last
quarter to dispose of the lowly Lions by a thirty point
margin to end the game 87-47. Dixon scored 22 points
along with 5 rebounds and 5 steals. He was supported by
Richard ‘Lenky” Thomas who added 16 points and 5
steals.
Railway Tigers a team with so much to prove this season,
displayed the desire to redeem their lackluster
performances ever since they were promoted to the Men’s
Basketball Championship last season. They had a tough
mental match up against Granville Jaguars who in their
last outing demoralizing Wolfpack by forty plus points.
Tigers behind the hot hand of Dave “Puwee” Black
outpaced Jaguars in the first three quarters of the
game. He scored 27 points, grabbed four rebounds and had
seven steals. Caustant Holness contributed 19
points along with 6 boards, 3 steals and 2 blocks.
Jermaine Rerrie as is expected added 14 points and
11 rebounds in his team’s victory. Jaguars never had an
answer – they never led, even with their marquee guard
Huwayne “Fatman” Blake leading all scorers with
28 points were just unable to leave an indomitable mark
on the match. He was supported by Leroy Lawrence
with his 21 points. Tigers won 74-69.
In the second game of the evening, Granville Wolfpack
with hopes to revive their plummeting season had to face
Innercity Avalanche who was also recovering from a
heart-wrenching one point last against Sav-Lar-Mar Hawks
last weekend. Avalanche drew first blood from the start
and quickly forced their opponents into relapse.
Avalanche won the first two quarters going into the
halftime break 38-27 leaders. On the other hand Wolfpack
regrouped and also outscored Avs 24-19 in the third to
claw their way back into the game. Now only seven points
behind at the beginning of the final quarter, Wolfpack
were determined to hand Avs their second straight loss,
but their hopes were dashed as Chayne Topey and
Cleon Morgan both scored 16 and 22 points
respectively to stave-off wolves. O'Neil Clarke
also made the scorecard with 14 baskets, 8 rebounds, 4
assists, 5 steals and 3 blocks in his all-rounded
performance. Wolfpack should be encouraged despite the
loss as they really came together in this final stanza,
they did outscore Avalanche, they did execute and with
more time this report could have being the reverse.
Vaughn Lee had a balanced game leading his troops
with 18 points and eight boards. Albert Munroe
scored 14 and snatched three steals while Andre Uter
formerly of Bay City Lions added 13.
By Khurt Comrie for WBA Media.
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