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CBC U-16 Basketball Championships Barbados, Antigua in winner’s row on day three
Brenon Francis (No 7) misses a three-pointer for Dominica. (Sean Devers photo)
A dominant performance from Barbados powered the lads from the Land of the Flying Fish to their second consecutive win (78-45), while Antigua & Barbuda beat BVI 73-71 in a thrilling finish in the afternoon games on day three of the 2016 Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) U-16 Championships yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
In the first game, another disappointing turnout watched as Barbados registered a 78-45 win to leave Dominica with their second defeat following the 113-34 trashing they suffered at the hands of Antigua Monday night.
The Dominican teenagers started cautiously and allowed the Bajans too many easy shots as the first quarter ended 21-10 with Barbados ahead by 11 points.
By half time Barbados had extended their lead to 27 points and the lads from the Nature Isle were down 50-23 as the Bajans continued to have things their way.
Despite a spirited fight back in the penultimate period by Dominica, Barbados still managed to end that period with a 17-point lead with scoreboard reading 67-32.
Dominica enjoyed their best period of play in the final quarter when Brenon Francis sunk two of his four three-pointers but those were his only scoring shots in a game in which he was the leading scorer for Dominica with 12 but he missed six of his shots from down town.
Sherquan Jino-Baptiest who hit a couple of threes in 11 points and Jaimerson John-Ross, who looked the best Dominican on show, had 10 points and 19 rebounds, but Dominica were too far behind and their last lap gallop went in vain as Anthony Steele, who missed both of his three-points attempts, ended with 16 points and got support from Kidane Adams who scored 13 points with 13 rebounds to give Barbados a 78-45 win.
The second game between Antigua, who secured their second victory in two games, and BVI who suffered losses to Barbados and Bahamas, was a riveting battle which rivaled the Jamaica, Suriname encounter which went into overtime on Sunday night, for the most exciting match so far.
A game high 22 from Joel Greer, 17 from Ajai Browne and 13 apiece from Emmanuel Joseph and Elliot Weeks were the double figure scorers for Antigua.
Kiandre Clark (16), Hamilton Nixon (11) and Elaine O’Neil (10) did the bulk of the scoring for BIV but for the third time ended on the losing team.
BVI missed 17 of their 44 shots from the free throw line and had they converted a few more the result could have been different since the margin of victory was just two points.
At the end of the opening quarter both teams were neck and neck in a fast paced game as they fought for the ascendency and Antigua were narrowly in front 17-16.
BVI came out in the second quarter in positive fashion and at the end of that quarter had taken an eight point lead and at half time led Antigua 37-29. BVI maintained the lead going into the last quarter with a six-point edge with the score on 54-48.
The final session was very aggressive and at times physical with neither team gaining a clear advantage. With 1:45 seconds remaining the score was tied at 66 all.
A time out was taken with 9:2 seconds on the clock with Antigua up by two and a couple of free throws from Renrick Masaac leveled the scores before a stunning basket from way down town by the calm Joseph put Antigua back in front.
The last few seconds saw the score unchanged from 73-71 with BVI one three pointer away from victory.
The tournament was scheduled to continue last night with Suriname battling Aruba and T&T facing off with Jamaica. (Sean Devers)
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