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Guyana registers for CBC Championships
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David Patterson
Guyana was registered among ten teams to initiate its return to the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships. Registration for the region’s most prestigious basketball senior tournament closed on April 29 and Guyana’s participation was confirmed.
President of CBC, Usie Richards, yesterday issued a memorandum confirming the participation of the ten teams in the senior male competition.The Caribbean Championships is scheduled for Nassau,
Bahamas during July 25-Augst 5 in the Bahamas.
According to the circular from CBC Secretary General, Sabrina Mitchell, May 8 is the deadline for the drawing of the two groups for the competition. Hosts, Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos and Virgin Islands were among the other teams listed to compete in the tournament.
Interestingly, the usually strong Trinidad and Tobago national team was not among those named to participate in the marquee bi-annual championship. Guyana last competed at the Caribbean Championships in Puerto Rico in 2007, missing the 2009 championships.
No locally-based player was included on that team that played in Puerto Rico since they were all denied US visas, rendering them ineligible to travel.
Guyana had also fielded a female team in 2007, which included two local females and a foreign composition as opposed to the entirely foreign male team.
President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), David Patterson, had made the return of Guyana to the CBC Championships top priority. In so doing, a national club championship was hosted to shortlist players for the event. The final of the event will be held at a date to be announced.
However, a composition of local players and Guyana’s best overseas-based prospects are expected to take on the region in the Bahamas this summer.
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