Point Fortin boys impress in college b-ball

Point Fortin’s Government Vocational College (GVC) are continuing their good run of form in the Colleges Invitational Basketball Tournament (CIBT). They put St Anthony’s College down 66-41 at the Jean Pierre Complex, Mucurapo on Friday to secure a place in the CIBT final.

GVC’s Rene Morris scored a match-high 14, Akil Griffith scored 11 as did Joel Jacob, and Robert Edwards totalled eight points to swamp St Anthony’s. The boys from the west could only answer with 12 from Anton Francis and eight from Kevin Huggins. St Anthony’s Marlon O’Neil emerged the CIBT three-point shootout champ and Francis came in third while Tranquillity Secondary’s Patrick “Pablo” Ryan came in second but it was not his shooting that awoke the crowd during the second match. Tranquillity may have been expecting more of a fight from Queen’s Royal College in the second match of the evening which began promptly at 7 pm and ended with a 78-42 scoreline in “Tranquil’s” favour.

Tranquil dominated the match from the onset with their usual “hustle defence”, accurate passes and shooting that tortured their opponents. However QRC’s Lori Adams led his team’s revolt with 16 points and Dominic Thompson-Lowe followed with 10. Vonnelle Applewhite scored a match-high 21, Sherman Diaz put in 19 and Johnathan Weekes recorded eight. But Ryan extracted sighs from the crowd when he proceeded down the lane, switched the ball behind his back, with three defenders in tow and put up the ball, drew the foul and completed the three-point play to cement the win for “Tranquil” with flair.