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By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net
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ON THE REPLAY: CH Reeves Raptors take on the DW Davis Royals in the GSSSA Basketball Tournament yesterday. Photos: Shawn Hanna/Tribune Staff
JIU-JITSU ACADEMY TO HOST FIVE-TIME SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT ‘CYBORG’ By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net AFTER introducing the sport to the Bahamas in November, the Jiu-Jitsu Academy will get a big boost this weekend when they host five-time Super Heavyweight world champion Roberto ‘Cyborg’ Abreu. He is an ADCC Absolute champion, four-time No-Go world champion, Pan American champion and Brazilian national champion. He went to the United States with nothing in his pockets and nowhere to live. Today, Abreu is regarded as one of the most highly regarded athletes in the sport and one of the most inspirational people
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Royals, Lions take early leads in best-of-3 finals erennial title contenders in both Government Secondary School Sports Association junior divisions began their bids to repeat as champions. Both the DW Davis Royals and HO Nash Lions took early series leads as the best-of-three finals tipped off yesterday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. In game one of the Junior Boys series, the top seeded Royals scored a 49-40 win over the CH Reeves Raptors. A balanced scoring attack featured four Royals players in double figures, highlighted by 16 points from Deangelo Foulkes. In his high scoring supporting cast, Kenvon Farrington added 12, George Colebrooke had 10 and Aaron Brown had nine. Marley Major scored nine, while Jaydon Farrington had seven for the Raptors. It was a hard fought game throughout the opening phases of the first, Farrington’s second three pointer of the game gave the Raptors an 11-9 lead with just under one minute left to play in the quarter. Farrington tied it at 11 from the line in a first quarter that had three ties and four lead changes. The teams took a 13 all tie into the second. The Royals opened the second with a Farrington dish to Brown for an alleyoop and he successfully converted the three-point play. After a Raptors run gave them a brief lead, the Royals half court trap resulted in a 6-0 run to take a 23-19 advantage. The size of the Colebrooke, Brown and Foulkes frontline began dominating the boards defensively but could not take advantage on offence, missing several second and third shot opportunities. The Royals still took a 25-19 lead into the half when Farrington split a pair from the line with time expired. CH Reeves opened the third with six unanswered points, capped by a fast break layup from Major for a 26-25 lead. The teams
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anyone would ever want to meet. Michel Eduardo Giacomotti, one of the organisers of the Jiu-Jitsu Academy, said they are delighted to bring Abreu in town to share his story and also provide some insight on the sport. “We are an affiliate of Fight Sports, which is based in Miami,” Giacomotti said. “During our grand opening on Saturday, we will have Roberto Abreu in town. We welcome anyone who is interested to come out.” Abreu will conduct from 11am to 1pm on Saturday and Sunday at the Jiu-Jitsu Academy’s facility in the Pineapple Business Park and the AIP is $100.00 per person. However, both sessions are free of charge for
FIVE-time Super heavyweight world champion Roberto ‘Cyborg’ Abreu. anyone who just wants to watch. “During the seminar, Giacomotti said Abreu will be providing teaching lessons as they finally bring a new sport to the Bahamas,” he pointed out. “We have no one better to come
and demonstrate than ‘Cyborg’ himself. “We will have four black belts on hand this weekend to assist him.” Manny Romeriz, who heads the Jiu-Jitsu Academy, is the black belt. Since the academy got
started in November, Giacomotti said they have attracted more than 75 signed up members and with Abreu in town, they anticipate that the numbers will increase. “We haven’t done any marketing for the academy as yet,” he said. “We will be doing that after the opening. But we are very pleased with the response we have received so far with this new sports in the Bahamas.” At present, training sessions are held daily from 6-7am for beginners. Women’s Open BJJ are held on Wednesdaya and Friday from 9:30-10:30 am and there’s an afterschool programme from 4-6 pm. The intro to BJJ goes from 6:30-7:30pm. The academy, however, is open until 9pm.
31ST ‘CATCH ME IF YOU CAN’ REGATTA IN MONTAGU BAY THIS WEEKEND By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THE stage is set for the biggest local regatta to take place on New Providence as the 31st Catch Me If You Can St Valentine’s Day Massacre is staged in Montagu Bay this weekend. “I thank God for allowing me to see another year, 2018, to host the St Valentine’s Day Regatta again,” said Eleazor ‘the Sailing Barber’ Johnson as he prepares for the sloop sailing extravaganza. “I started it in 1987 and I come this far without any interruption. I thank God that I’ve never had to put the regatta off because of bad weather or the lack of funding.” Johnson, the owner of the B Class Lady in Red, Lady Nathalie boat, also expressed his gratitude to all those persons who would have assisted him from the first year to now. “I was sailing from I was a boy, not for money, because of the competition. I just wanted to beat you,” Johnson said. “That is in my blood and that will continue until I die. I was there when we didn’t have any motors in the boats to sail. That is how we started competing. “But I hope that someone else will take a stand and put on more regattas like this because it is needed to make sailing much better. I don’t want to see anybody fussing, rowing or arguing over regattas.” Johnson said while he’s doing his path by putting on the regatta in New Providence, he would like to see more money pumped into the regattas staged around the Family Islands with every major island putting on a regatta for the public to enjoy. Starting on Saturday and completing on Sunday, Johnson said the regatta will take place in Montagu with competition being staged in the A Class. He noted that there are at least 6-7 boats expected to compete in a series of races on Saturday. Then on Sunday, Johnson said his Lady in Natalie will get his customary head start on an 8-10 mile course ahead of the A Class boats and they will have a chance to catch his boat, which is expected to be skippered by Clyde Rolle. Among the boats scheduled to participate in the regatta are the Red Stripe, Southern Cross, Ed Sky, Good News and the Running Tide. Johnson thanked Burns House and Campari, Coca-Cola, the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources, Asa H Pritchard and d’Albenas Agency for their support in the past and even this year. He said that they are still open to any other corporate sponsors who would like to assist. Anyone interested can contact Stafford Armbrister at 422-4811 or Clyde Rolle at 557-0053. Music for the weekend will be provided by Rev DJ and Johnson said the theme song will be “I thank Heaven” composed and sung by Wendal Stuart as he thanks God for bringing him this far with the staging of the regatta.