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Apr 10, 2013 Sports
The Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) will this afternoon launch the 9th Annual Linden Secondary Schools Under-19 basketball championships with a team briefing for the six participating schools.
The briefing will take place at 4:00pm at the Macaw Boardroom in the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN) building, formerly known as the LEAP.
The main aim for this afternoon’s session is to apprise the competing schools; Linden Technical Institute who are the defending champions, Mackenzie High, Linden Foundation secondary, New Silvercity Secondary, Wisburg Secondary and Christianburg Wismar Secondary Schools about the expectations of each contesting schools.
The competition rules and the fixtures for the tournament which bounces off on Monday will be distributed also.
The tournament will run for ten days and the opening day Monday will see the six schools involved in a March Past and at the official opening where one game is scheduled to be played in what will be an initial round robin format before the top four schools advance to the semifinals and then the final on May 1 at the MSC Hard Court.
Schools are asked to send their coaches or team managers and at least one student to this briefing.
The LABA, who will this year stage the championship, formerly organized by the Victory Valley Royals basketball club, has appealed for assistance from local sponsors to come on board as they have already secured sponsorship for the trophies and medals from sponsors in the United States of America.
Players must be born after December 31, 1994 to be eligible to participate in this championship.
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