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May 7, 2008
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Weekend Prevue:
Round Nine
Hawks, Jaguars in Spotlight
Matches in the return round of the highly competitive
Lucozade Sport Western Men’s Basketball Championship (MBC)
continues this weekend at its usual home, the Montego
Bay Cricket Club.
Last weekend’s results saw the two mid-season finalists
losing while the third and fourth placed teams both
making valuable ground, defeating said finalists by 18
and 17 points respectively.
 Hoopers,
Innercity Avalanche and Sav-La-Mar Hawks all knotted
together on 12 points (not the first time this season
either) closely trailed by Jaguars one point adrift, the
championship is now poised to be a keen tussle over the
coming weeks as teams jostle to position themselves for
better placing.
The relegation battle also intensifies as the three
lower placed teams are separated by only a single point
too. This happened after Bay City Lions won the first
time in eight matches last weekend, when they
over-powered Granville Wolfpack drawing level on points
with Railway Tigers who didn’t have a match last week.
Avalanche (5-2) will be idle this week, thus giving
three other teams in the upper half of the table an
excellent opportunity to climb to the top.
Wolfpack (2-5) find themselves easy preys instead of
predators by nature since suffering five consecutive
defeats. They must be wishing they were back in the
division 2 where there skills were more menacing in
comparison to their transition to the big league. A
disheartened Wolfpack unit will go up against Tigers
(2-4) a team which trails by a point but still has a
game in hand. Tigers are also on a downward spiral since
dropping three straight games, however after resting
last week expect Tigers to dominate and run away victors
against their wounded and struggling kin.
Lions (1-6) who tasted victory for the first time this
season, have to be weary of the euphoric state as
circling directly overhead is their nemesis – Hawks
(5-2). The birds are squawking in eager anticipation of
their evening meal. Once Lions can somehow neutralize
Hawks explosive offense and forge attacks in their
impregnable defense, then they have a chance of an upset
but if all that fails, Hawks will skillfully pick them
to pieces.
Hoopers (5-2) and Jaguars (4-3) should provide the most
drama and excitement this weekend. While Jaguars are
boasting a three game win streak from their last four
games. Hoopers on the other hand have tasted defeat in
three of their last four encounters. Depending on one’s
viewpoint Hoopers won the previous two meeting between
these two (last season’s President’s Cup Knockout final
and their previous round one meeting this year).
Momentum is definitely in Jaguars favour based on
current form, expect this encountered to be a close and
hard-fought one - from start to finish.
By Khurt Comrie for WBA Media.
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