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Pepsi National Schools’ Basketball Festival…Defending champs Kwakwani trample ‘Roses’
By Edison Jefford
Defending Pepsi schools’ basketball champions, Kwakwani Secondary, trampled St. Roses High School in their opening game of the 2008 instalment of the tournament yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
The school from Region 10, looking for their second consecutive win in the Schools’ Basketball Festival, easily crushed ‘Roses’, the 2006 champions, 65–19 with junior national player, guard Shelroy Thomas posting 20 points.
Thomas, without the help of guard Japheus DaSilva, who was absent from the school’s roster yesterday, completely annihilated the little resistance ‘Roses’ showed. The hot–handed guard proved difficult to defend.
The diminutive player of obvious Amerindian descent received offensive assistance from Leron LaFleur and Denzil Plak, who scored 12 and 10 points respectively. Point guard Trevon Farose scored 10 points for ‘Roses’.
Thomas and his charges controlled the pace of the game for the entire 40–minute period and never looked threatened. St. Roses was an offensive and defensive mess for a team that only two years ago held the title.
‘Roses’’ free–throw shooting and conversion were frustrating to watch. The duel between the two immediate past champions was expected to be colossal but instead it turned out to be a battle between lions and mouse.
St. Roses was depleted and defeated in 40 tough minutes of embarrassment. In other games, Stravin Etienne led Wismar Multilateral to a 46–30 win over Bishops High School with a 23–point performance.
No player from Bishops had double figures while Mackenzie High School got a walkover from 2007 Guyana Secondary Schools Basketball Association League semi–finalist, Central High School owing to the absence of the latter.
President’s College swiped out St. Johns with a one–point 41–40 victory after trailing 12–21 at the half with a heroic effort from Richard Mohandatt, who scored 22 points for the East Coast–based senior secondary school.
Mohandatt received help from Willon Cameron (11 points) while Keiron Boyce and Keith Blackman both scored 11 points for St. Johns College. The tournament continues tomorrow from 1pm.
President of the coordinating Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA), Chris Bowman told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that the full fixtures with the current standing of schools will be available today.
He, however, explained that the schools were divided up into four groups with a round–robin format within each grouping; the top two teams in each group will play a group final with the winner advancing to the final four.
The GABA is staging the event in unison with the National Sports Commission and in accordance with a press release, 12 spots are available for eligible players on Guyana’s national junior team for the Inter–Guiana Games.
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