sunday, November 22, 2009
The Belize Times
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Belize #1 Sports Page
Toledo Christian Academy girls win back to back national volleyball champs The Toledo Christian Academy girls of Emery Grove won their 2nd back to back national volleyball championship at the national tournament held by the National Sports Council at the Belize City Center last Friday. In Game 1, the Toledo girls won over the Stann Creek district champions, the Richard Quinn RC School girls from Georgetown Village, 25-17 and 25-17. In Game 2, the Orange Walk champions, the Chan Pine Ridge Government School girls won over the Belize district champions, the Hummingbird Elementary School girls, 25-12 and 25-18. In Game 3, the Georgetown girls bounced back from their earlier loss to thrash the Cayo district champions, the victorious Nazarene School girls from San Jose Succotz: 25-18 and 25-14. In Game 4, the Chan Pine Ridge girls advanced to the semifinals by winning over the Corozal district champions, the Church of Christ Primary School girls, 25-16 and 26-24. In Game 5, the Hummingbird Ele-
mentary girls also advanced to the semifinal round by winning over Corozal’s Church of Christ girls: 25-16 and 27-25. In Game 6, the Toledo girls secured their place in the semifinals by eliminating the San Jose Succotz girls 25-9 and 25-11. In Game 7 in the semifinals, the Toledo girls eliminated the Hummingbird Elementary School girls: 25-15 and 2522 to move on to the final. Similarly in Game 8, the Georgetown girls eliminated the Chan Pine Ridge girls in 3 sets: 28-26, 18-25 and 15-9. In Game 9, the consolation game for 3rd place, the Chan Pine Ridge girls won over the Hummingbird Elementary
girls 2515 and 25-17. In Game 10, the championship final, the Toledo girls won over the Georgetown girls: 25-23 and 25-18. The champions, 2nd and 3rd place winners received team trophies and individual medals. The Most Valuable Player award went to Toledo’s Angelina Budnah, and will include a full scholarship to high school.
Cayo’s Bishop Martin School boys win Racqueteers seeded No.1 into table national volleyball champs tennis playoffs, Team No Mercy, Team Bishop ACE & Sugar City make the cut Martin boys eliminated the
The Bishop Martin Primary School boys of San Ignacio won the national primary schools volleyball championship when the National Sports Council held its annual national tournament at the Belize City Center last Friday. In Game 1, the Toledo district champions, the Little Flower RC School boys from Forest Home Village won over the Stann Creek district champions, the St. Alphonsus RC School boys from Seine Bight: 25-21 and 25-21. In Game 2, the Orange Walk champions, the Chan Pine Ridge Government School boys won over the Belize district champions, the St. John Vianney RC School boys: 25-16 and 25-23 In Game 3, the Cayo district champions, the Bishop Martin RC School boys from San Ignacio won over the Stann Creek district champions, the St. Alphonsus RC School boys from Seine Bight 25-22 and 25-19. In Game 4, the Chan Pine Ridge boys advanced to the semifinals, despite a loss to the Corozal district champions, the Xaibe Government school boys who won: 25-22, 21-25 and 16-14. In Game 5, the Xaibe boys eliminated the St. John Vianney boys 2025, 25-19 and 15-10 to advance to the semifinals. In Game 6, Cayo’s Bishop Martin boys secured their place in the semifinals by winning over Toledo’s Little Flower boys 25-16 and 25-17. In Game 7 in the semifinals, the
Chan Pine Ridge boys 25-15 and 25-20 to move on to the final. Similarly in Game 8, Toledo’s Little Flower boys eliminated the Xaibe boys: 25-13 and 25-19 to move on to the finals. In Game 9 the consolation game for 3rd place, the Chan Pine Ridge boys won over the Xaibe boys 25-19 and 25-10. In Game 10, the championship final, the Bishop Martin boys won over the Toledo boys in 3 sets: 21-25, 2522 and 16-14. The champions, 2nd and 3rd place winners received team trophies and individual medals. The Most Valuable Player award went to Cayo’s Gary Martinez, and will include a full scholarship to high school.
The Racqueteers won the No.1 seed entering the team table tennis playoffs at the Belize Elementary School auditorium on Saturday, November 14. Team captain Tux Vasquez led his Racqueteers: Peter Wang and Amir Vasquez to the No.1 berth in the playoffs, when Team Usher-Matus defaulted on their 2 scheduled matches on Saturday. Team Usher-Matus exited the competition with 2 wins and 6 losses. Team No Mercy won the No.2 seed with back to back wins on Saturday. Team No Mercy posted their 5th win when Landy Habet and Jamil Bedran trounced Team Jabiru 5-0 and their 6th win by eliminating Team Sukhnandan in the final game of the first round. Team Jabiru: led by team captain Kareem Michael, with Hollis Parham, Tola Casimiro and Ted Marin got the easy bye to their 2nd win by default when the UsherMatus team defaulted on their scheduled match on Saturday. Team ACE’s captain Nelito Ayuso, Jorge Espat and Fareed Ahmad won the No. 3
seed to the playoffs with 6 wins, 2 losses. Both Team Suga City and Team Jones had a 5-3 record at the end of the first round, but only Suga City made it to the playoffs as the No. 4 seed. Team Rivero team captain Ernesto Rivero along with Sheran Murillo, Michael Rivero and Cuthbert Bailey exited the competition with 4 wins and 4 losses. The playoffs begin on Sunday, November 22.