NFM crush Suriname basketballers

NATIONAL Flour Mills salvaged some pride for local basketball when they downed Surinamese team Caribbean Little Devils. The Little Devils had opened their tour of Trinidad and Tobago with a victory over Marabella Raptors on Tuesday in Pleasantville. Royal Extra North Zone champs National Flour Mills beat the Devils 67-59 at the St Paul’s Street Gymnasium, Port-of-Spain, on Thursday. After being tied at 15 at the end of the first quarter and were trailing by nine points at the half; then being tied at 45 at the end of the third, NFM pulled away to take the eight-point win. Andy Best was the only NFM player to hit double figures. Little Devils’ Dwight Berkleef scored a match-high 16 points while Winston Bosk put in 13 and Sergio.

Derandamie recorded 10. Derandamie was restricted by the defensive efforts of NFM’s Marlon Drakes who studies on scholarship in the United States. Point Fortin All Stars waxed warm and walked over the Marabella Raptors to take a 97-71 win in the other match of the double-header. Ako Pascal of Raptors put up the match-high 30 points while All Stars Kervis King was close behind with 28. The All Stars pair of Roy Straker and Mervyn Morris each scored 16 points to help their team to victory but Raptors Damian Caton’s 14 and 10 points by  Louie Davis could not keen their team afloat.