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Jul 05, 2015 Sports
By Edison Jefford
The quest for the coveted Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) title begins tonight when the top teams from four conferences across Guyana clash in the national phase of the competition, which is set to officially open.
The winners of the four nation-wide conferences collected their prizes yesterday during the 2015 NSBF Media Day, which was also used to usher in the next chapter of the competition. National Director of Sport, Christopher Jones was the main speaker.
“We would like to commend YBG for giving athletes a platform to ply their trade; we’ll continue to support organisations like YBG,” Jones said, adding that it is important that athletes merge the sport with academics so that they are more ‘rounded’.
“If for some reason, you are unable to pursue sports, you must have something to fall back on. It is important to twin academics and sport,” Jones told the student-athletes. The NSBF began April 20 in the Berbice, East Coast, City and Linden Conferences.
YBG is the organisation that hosts the NSBF. One of its Directors, Chris Bowman, congratulated the regional winners, stating that they have worked hard to reach the national phase. He informed that the week ahead will be competitive based on the teams.
“I want to encourage you to play with the discipline you exhibited throughout the regionals. You are the ones we are doing this for, our student athletes; we are grateful for this opportunity which allows you to be a part of this tournament,” Bowman indicated.
New Amsterdam Multilateral Titans won the Berbice Conference after beating J.C. Chandisingh 42-27; President’s College won the East Coast Conference 46-28 against Plaisance Secondary as St. Roses High School got past Marian Academy 47-34 for the City title. In the Big 10 or Linden Conference, Kwakwani beat Linden Technical Institute 64-60 in a thriller.
NA Multi’s Ramone Fogenay won the MVP and Most Assists awards for that conference, while Jahleel Duke was the MVP on the East Coast, Nathan Saul in Georgetown and Dellon Wallace in Linden.
Nigel Bowen copped the Most Assist prize on the East Coast, as Anfernee Jervis did the same in Georgetown and Stanton Rose in Linden. Bowen also got the Most Rebounds prize with Tafawa Daly picking up a similar award in Berbice, Timothy Thompson in Georgetown and Terron Welch in Linden.
In the Girls’ competition, Jada Mohan and Georgianna Vyphuis, representing Marian Academy, were awarded the Best Scorer and Most Rebound and Best Defence prizes respectively.
St. Roses’ Quacy Roberts got the Most Assist and Best Scorer awards and Corey Graham got the Most Rebounds and Best Defence prizes for Marian in the Under-14 competition. Meanwhile, in the U-16 category, Queen’s College’s, Omarie Joseph copped the Best Scorer award with Joshua Brazao picking up the Most Assist prize and Thompson Most Rebounds.
The national championships will officially open today with both the junior and senior Ministers of Education, who also have responsibility for Youth, Culture and Sport, scheduled to attend the formal NSBF Opening Ceremony.
“Because it’s our 10th year, we will honour St. Roses High School and Kwakwani Secondary for participating in all the years of our tournament,” Bowman said. In addition, Kwakwani’s Coach, Ann Gordon will get a Lifetime Achievement Award while seven players will be branded Youth Basketball Ambassadors.
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