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Pacesetters, Ravens renew rivalry tonight

Mar 14, 2010 Sports

Best game in GABA League anticipated

By Edison Jefford
In numerology, three is the number of resurrection, and in reality, Courts Pacesetters will have a third opportunity against a team that blew them out twice before when they come up against Ravens in a colossal feature battle tonight.
The game between the two unbeaten teams in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Open League will most likely decide who takes the number one place after the completion of the tournament.
No doubt this is the biggest game of the League. It is one that fans and sport enthusiasts are expected to turn out in their numbers to see since both teams have always brought a huge following to the renowned Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Pacesetters had suffered heavy losses to Ravens last November and in January this year, and promised to bounce back stronger. Ravens have coasted to easy wins in the League thus far while Pacesetters was forced to work harder.
A gritty win against Bounty Colts Thursday night after they were double-figures down in final minutes of the game would serve as an immense confidence-booster to Pacesetters tonight against one of the best offensive teams in the country.
From appearances, Pacesetters have regrouped with Kurt Elias and Horace Hodges taking control of the ‘big man’ posts with much potency. Naylon Loncke and Stephon Gillis have also been consistent for the team in the League.
However, their fitness will be heavily tested against a top fast-break team. Ravens’ strength has always been their guards with Darcel Harris, who recently returned from playing in Trinidad and Tobago, leading a quality group.
Ravens will use Rodwell Fortune, Ryan Stephney and Stephon Henry in a dangerous running offensive attack. The trio, together with Harris, forms part of the demolition of major defensive setups. It will be no different tonight.
Kaieteur Sport understands that Pacesetters have sorted out its work ethic with a fitness coach coming in to work with its players. The come-from-behind triumph against Colts proved that the team is much fitter than before.
In addition to Elias and Hodges, national forward, Royston Siland will have his work cut out against the likes of Ravens’ Dwayne ‘Brown Sugar’ Roberts, Rudy James and Ryan Gullen. Senior Pacesetter, Clement Brusche will help Siland.
This game has the making of a classic since the covenant of formality exists. This is not a promotion event. This is an official game under the aegis of the GABA with a loss for either side effectively separating the top two teams.
Ravens have placed themselves on a higher offensive plane, literally taking apart most, if not all, of the teams that were tossed at them in the recent past. The club’s confidence is constructed on the belief that they are the best in Guyana.
What is the formula for the destruction of confidence? There is none except winning. Courts Pacesetters will come out looking to win against a team that have made them their whipping boys. It will be a Herculean task for Courts.
The bottom line is that tonight’s game between Ravens and Pacesetters is more than just another game in the League. Tonight’s duel is personal. At least the players will approach it in that manner to decide the best team in the City.

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