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Mar 21, 2013 Sports
By Samuel Whyte
Central New Amsterdam Basketball club made sure that their travel to Fyrish was not in vain as their put their experience to play to drown out Fyrish Black Sharks and sail away with the inaugural Banks DIH Classic Inter Club Basketball championship for teams in Berbice which was played last Sunday March 17th at the Fyrish Basketball Court.
Coming into the game as favourites after playing unbeaten during the preliminary rounds, Central New Amsterdam dug deep coming into the second half to out maneuver and shut out the Black Sharks to win 39-27 after a keenly contested first half which saw the teams taking the break at 19 -18 in favour of the visitors. However, any thought the Sharks had of devouring another prey and winning the coveted title, were quickly surmounted.
The team from New Amsterdam after realizing that they were being matched and some of their plays torn to pieces by the Roving Black Sharks quickly regrouped at half time. They went back to the drawing board and planned their strategy how to outmaneuver, out smart, confine, and capture the Black Sharks who were attacking relentlessly and looking ominous up to that point.
The strategy worked well as the New Amsterdam lads took control of proceeding as they went on the hunt and outmaneuvered their opponents with a second half dominance scoring 20 points to their opponents 9.
Player Coach Kirk Fraser led the way with 10 points while Enoch Vanderstoop had 9 in a complete team effort. The Black Sharks top scorer was Leyland Edwards with 8 points.
The teams from New Amsterdam made a clean sweep when Smythfield Rockerfellas rocked and rolled their way to a comfortable win over Rose Hall Town with a 61-41 blowout after a keenly contested first half. In fact at half time it was Rose Hall Town that was leading 26-21. ON the resumption it was all the lads from Rockerfellas as they scored 40 points to the opponents 15. Leading the way for Rockerfellas was Michael Bowen with a game high 24 points while Jamal Felix sank 16.
Top scoring for Rose Hall Town were Eon Wiggins with 12, while Perry Cort collect 7 points. Enoch Vanderstoop was declared the MVP of the tournament.
The presentation of trophies and prizes were not done due to the unavailability of the sponsors who were unavoidable absent. This will be done at a later stage.
The competition, which began in December, saw five teams participating with Corentyne Jammers being knocked out in the preliminary stage
The coordinator was Vibert Garrett.
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