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Mar 26, 2011 Sports

More than just a game for Ravens – Coach

Tonight, basketball fans and players will converge at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for the Kevin Lawrence Memorial Basketball Extravaganza, where Ravens will take on a Georgetown All-Star and the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Elite squad is down to face the Ravens Junior squad.
The inaugural event is hosted by the Ravens Club in honour of Lawrence who passed away on March 27 2010.
The players will be vying for a chance to cart off lucrative incentives and an array of attractive trophies.
A display of quality basketball is promised by the club but their coach is making it clear that for Ravens “It will be more than just a game”.
Darcel Harris, known for his razor sharp cross-over and gunner like aim from down-town, has over the past year been the brainchild behind his team’s recent surge to the top of local basketball.
Yesterday, Harris said that while players are coming out to have fun and put on a good show for the spectators, his team will be coming to win, since it would be in keeping of the nature of the late Lawrence.
“We want to play our normal basketball. We want to win and play hard because we know that was his {Kevin} attitude to every game. He always likes to win and play hard, so my players all knowing this will be coming out to win the game and nothing else” said Harris.
Ravens’ only loss in 2010 was in game one of the best of three final series against Courts Pacesetters and it is of the view of Captain Syria’h Clarke, that their team are playing superior basketball and makes them hard to defeat and as such, their competitors will certainly have to walk with their ‘A’ Game!.
“I believe the track record of our club speaks for its self. We only lost once last year and our players are always together training, so even so for the entire year we haven’t had a game, we are always ready for action. Come tonight I’m sure It will be nothing but exciting” Clarke added.
Apart from Clarke, Ravens will turn to their star guards Rodwell ‘Kobe’ Fortune, Stephan ‘Penny’ Henry and Ryan Stephaney, forward Ryan ‘Kobrone’ Gullen and Centre Dwayne ‘Brown Sugar’ Roberts as their main weapons.
Centre Rudy James, Marlon Rodrigues, Yusuf Edghill, Jermaine Slater and recent addition Travis ‘Cook-up’ Foster are the other players to feature in the ‘Orange Men’ line-up.
The Georgetown All-Star line-up under the guidance of Coach Vijay Panday from the Scorpions Basketball Club will include Akeem ‘The Dream’ Kanhai, Royston Siland, Stefon Gillis, Kurt ‘Gipsy’ Elias, Bounty Colts’ Niko Fraser, Nets guards, Pillum Dorris and Mortimer Williams and Pepsi Sonic forward Richard Braithwaite will also feature.
The clash between the YBG Elite squad and Ravens junior squad also has what it takes to excite patrons.
It’s not sure if Kanhai will play both games, given the fact that he’s the captain of the YBG Elite but apart from the former National junior Captain, Marlon Pollydore, Jeffery La Rose, Yannick Dundas and Centre Prince Giddings who have all represented Guyana at the Under-19 level will more than be good enough challenge for the young Ravens.
Jump ball time is 19 hours 30 and admission is $500, with proceeds going to charity and the Ravens Basketball Club.

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