Pleasantville U-17 b-ball champs

THE cuertain came down on the NGC/Express Secondary School’s Basketball season with two days of fierce national final action at the Pleasantville Indoor Complex on Friday and the St Paul Street Facility on Saturday.

At Pleasantville, home team Pleasantville Senior Comprehensive edged Northern Conference princesMorvant/Laventille Secondary 64-61 in the Under-17 final. Morvant/Laventille star Dylaun Skeete scored a game-high 27 points but his effort was not enough. Pleasantville pair Akeem Valley had 20 and Travis Carrington 12 to carry their team to victory. But Northern princesses Malick Secondary stopped a Pleasantville sweep  edging home 68-67 in their final match-up. Crystal Kirton who scored 44 points and Nyasha Reyes 11 powered the Malick girls to a victory. Melanie Guerero with 48 points and Jenelle Terres 10  led the scoring for Pleasantville.

Sangre Grande Junior Secondary up ended Scarborough Secondary 52-49 on Saturday at the St Paul Street Multi-Purpose Facility to take the Under-15 title, behind 10 pooints from Keegan James and John Stewart with six. Scarborough got  17 points from Jegeb Orr and 10 from  Lance Roberts. Also on Saturday Tranquillity Government Secondary stamped their name on the Under-20 crown when they crushed Scarborough 74-54. Sherman Diaz with a game-high 31 points and Tranquil captain Vonnelle Applewhite 24 were too much for the Tobago boys for whom Darryl Bedlow scored 19 and Johan Duncan and Keeon Anthony 10 points each. Diaz was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the Under-20 age-group.