Chase Academy cop east b-ball

Brian Chase Academy women basketballers are the first winners of the Eastern Community Basketball League Knock-out competition. This after they recorded an emphatic 55-22 win over Police at the Maloney Indoor Sport Facility on Sunday evening. Playing in front of a small crowd of the Maloney basketball faithful, the Academy women got into their rhythm from the tip-off. Tenneika Hartley collected the ball unmarked and put in her team’s first points of the evening. Police seemed up for the challenge, retorting with a three-point play but it was all downhill from there as the Academy’s centre Affeisha Noel took on dominant role on the inside scoring a match-high 17 points. She also held 12 rebounds and grabbed five steals. Corisia Blugh joined her Academy and Mucurapo teammate on the score sheet putting in 14 points while snatching 11 rebounds and eight steals. Nikiesha Cropper was not far behind with 13 points, eight rebounds and four steals.

The Academy’s cohesive team-effort and rhythm left Police stranded on 22, a tally for which Peggy-Ann Brown was mainly responsible scoring 11 and taking eight rebounds. In the first match on the evening, Unit Trust Maloney Pacers continued their unbreakable chain of victories with a 63-40 beating of Colours as the Division One “Big Four” began. The club continued their dream run with the help of Michael Alert’s 11 points, Derrick Williams (12) and Kenrick Bernard’s 13, 12 rebounds and five steals. Pacers’ performance defeated the purpose of Colours’ Akil La Roche who registered 16 points, Foma Francois’ 12 and Marvin Humphrey’s defensive 15 rebounds, three steals and three points. Pacers will now be favoured to add the “Big Four” to their Division One and two Knock-out titles already procured this season. In another match on Sunday, Edinburgh Hawks fell victim to the advances of the predatorial Marabella Raptors as the latter romped to a 76-67 win in their Division One “Big Four” match-up following the women’s final. Both teams had prominent scorers which made for a good fight on the boards to secure the win but Raptors eventually won the battle with Damian Caton scoring 12 and taking nine rebounds. Asfa Grant scored 13 with 11 rebounds; Kendal Britto also had 13 points and Louis Davis made 18. Ako Pascal recorded a match-high 27 points to put an exclamation point on the win for Raptors, while Hawks’ Dexter Hughue, Marvin Celestine and Jason Friday scored ten each. Dereck Hughue hit a team-high 14 points and nine rebounds in an effort to quell the storming Raptors. “Big Four” matches continue at Maloney today.