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CBC 2015 Men’s Senior Championships …Antigua downs Guyana in opening game
After trailing 5-2, Antigua and Barbuda went on a 13-0 run with 7:36 remaining in the first quarter and 
never looked backed as they defeated Guyana 80-60 in the Group B preliminary round action of the 2015 Men’s Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships, Road Town, Tortola.
Jerome Richardson led Antigua with 14 points while they also got 13 from Lenoxx McCoy and Ernest Scott. Antigua kept a double digit advantage after they took a 25-14 advantage with 8:53 left in the second quarter.
Guyana’s Gordon James led all scorers with 19 points while also grabbing a game-high 15 rebounds. Guyana played Bahamas last night.
Antigua and Barbuda flay Suriname 85-50
Antigua and Barbuda moved to 2-0 in preliminary round play at the 2015 Caribbean
The Antiguans shoot over the Guyanese Monday night at the Caribbean Championships in Tortola, BVI. (www.caribbeanbasketball.com photo)
Basketball Confederation Championships with a convincing 85-50 win over Suriname at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex in Road Town, Tortola.
Antigua jumped out to a 16-5 lead on a Kurt Looby alley-oop with 5:44 to play in the first quarter and never looked back. The Bulldogs led after the first quarter 29-13, and at halftime 51-22.
The onslaught continued in the second half, as Antigua opened up a 44-point fourth-quarter lead at 76-32 on a basket by Lennox McCoy. Aside from a 7-0 run in the fourth by Suriname (0-1), Antigua dominated in every phase of the game.
Looby led Antigua with 13 points. Jerome Richardson, Ernest Scott and Sharife Sergeant each had 11. Yves Goedschalk led Suriname with 11 points.
Defending CBC Champs Bahamas trounce Bermuda 57-38
Defending Caribbean Basketball Confederation Champions Bahamas defeated Bermuda
Action in the Bahamas Bermuda clash. (www.caribbeanbasketball.com photo)
57-38 in its first game of preliminary action at the 2015 Men’s championships held at the Multi Purpose Sports Complex in Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
Magnum Rolle led the way for Bahamas with 11 points and 9 rebounds, for Bermuda Jason Lowe was the high point man with 15 points. Both teams started out struggling with the long ball, as defense played a major role in the first half, which ended 23-21 in favor of Bahamas.
Bermuda came out the locker rooms with an aggressive mind set in the third and found themselves within single digits going into the fourth. Bahamas seemed too much in the final quarter of the ball game as they began to pull away down the stretch.
British Virgin Islands hammer St. Vincent 84-69
On several occasions, it looked as if the British Virgin Islands was going to run away from St. Vincent and the Grenadines in preliminary-round play at the 2015 Men’s Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championships—but each time BVI took control, SVG made a run, nearly coming all the way back in the fourth quarter after being 18 points down in the third.
BVI, however, was too much down the stretch as the host nation used its size and outside shooting to finally put away SVG 84-69.
BVI led by as many as eight in the first, before the quarter ended 23-17. Nyika Williams tied the game for SVG at 32 with 3:00 left in the second—but that’s when BVI started its biggest run, as SVG failed to score over the final three minutes of the half. BVI took a 41-32 lead into half.
BVI blazed out of the gate in the second half, expanding the lead to 18 at 52-34, going on a 23-5 run from the 3:00 mark of the second quarter until the 5:35 mark of the third, when Halstead Chiverton drilled a three-pointer to make it 55-37.
SVG began a run of its own moments later, assisted by a technical foul against Chiverton and an unsportsmanlike foul against Kennedy Bass on back-to-back possessions with 1:29 left in the third. SVG would finish out the third quarter on a 21-7 run and trailed by just three at 59-56 heading into the fourth.
A bucket by Alexis Foyle with 8:41 left in the game drew SVG to within one at 61-60. But Chiverton’s outside shooting and the interior defense by Kleon Penn proved too much for SVG, and BVI finished the game on a 23-9 run of its own.
Chiverton finished with 18 points for BVI (1-0), while Randy George had 16, Kilven Samuel had 15, and Norville Carey added 13 and ten rebounds. Kleon Penn added four points and blocked seven shots.
Foyle had 29 points for SVG (0-1), while both Shawn King and Sean Baptiste each had 11. King also had 15 rebounds. British Virgin Islands also defeated Cayman Islands 77-65.
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