GABF ‘Road to Mecca’ starts at CASH tonight

Mar 01, 2014 Sports

– Georgetown’s Nets battle Linden’s King’s in feature game

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) ‘Road to Mecca’ National Basketball Club Championship starts

Drumson McCullay

tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) with four games being played including the featured clash between Nets and Kings.
The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) number two ranked Colts will get the tournament going when they take on the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association (BABA) third-ranked Rose Hall Town Jammers in the first game from 6pm.
Then the BABA second-ranked Smythfield Rockers will play the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) number four ranked Retrieve Raiders at 7:30pm before BABA number one seeded team, New Amsterdam Warriors take on Georgetown’s Ravens.
The final game of the night will see Georgetown’s fifth-ranked Nets facing the herculean task of overcoming Linden’s number one ranked Kings. The battle is expected to be a humdinger among two good teams that have re-emerged over the last two years.
Nets’ guard, Pelham Doris will lead his side that includes Drumson McCullay, Fabian Johnson, Mortimer Williams and Hodayah Stewart against a formidable Linden side that includes Omally Sampson, sharp shooter, Orin Rose and forward Marvin Hartman.
At stake at the end of the road, is a top prize of $400,000 for the winning club while second place takes home $200,000 along with trophies. A total of $1.2M will be given out to clubs according to the structure that is set out below. The competition will continue tomorrow with four games at the same venue.

Results	Club/s	Cash Prize per Club	Total Cash Prizes
Winner	1	$400,000	$400,000
Runner-Up	1	$200,000	$200,000
Defeated Semi Finalists	2	$100,000	$200,000
Defeated Quarter Finalists	4	$50,000	$200,000
Clubs Defeated – Round of 16	8	$25,000	$200,000
Total Cash Prizes for Clubs			$1,200,000