FIBA: TEAM BAHAMAS FALLS TO PANAMA 88-66

FROM PAGE 14 throw line in 26:33 minutes and he pulled down nine rebounds. Kentwan Smith scored 10 points with nine rebounds and two block shots, both Ahmad Pratt and Roosevelt Whyllly had seven points with four and three rebounds respectively, Bradley Nairn added five points with four rebounds and two steals, Livingstone Munnings Jr had four points with two rebounds, Godfrey Rolle III three points and Robert Nortman chipped in with two points. Panama had a well-balanced scoring attack led by Tony Bishop Jr with a game high 20 points. Carlos Rodriguez had 15, both Trevor Gaskins and Eric Romero

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Arsenal stayed two points clear of secondplaced City with a game to spare.

There was more movement at the bottom of the standings, with victories for Leeds and West Ham lifting both teams out of the relegation zone and dropping Everton and Bournemouth into it.

EASY FOR ARSENAL

Arsenal looks to have gotten over its blip.

Since collecting one point from a three-game stretch that let City back into the title race, Arsenal has gained back-to-back wins on the road with manager Mikel Arteta saying the team has gone back to basics. Gabriel Martinelli scored the 46th-minute winner at King Power Stadium, poking in a finish after running onto Leandro Trossard’s pass. Trossard and Bukayo Saka had goals had 13 and Josimar Ayaza and Ernesto Oglivie had 10 apiece.

Panama out-rebounded the Bahamas 43-41 and made only 11 turnovers, compared to 18 by the Bahamas.

The Bahamas dropped to the bottom of the six-team pool in Group E with a 3-9 win-loss record, identical to that of Panama that moved into fifth place.

Canada topped the list at 11-1 with the Dominican Republic in second at 9-3 and Venezuela in third at 8-4 as all three teams moved onto the next round of the World Cup.

Argentina was also 8-4, but dropped to fourth by virtue of losing to Venezuela. Panama got fifth and the Bahamas was sixth, both with the same record.

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Shamar Davis finished with 17 points, 11 rebounds and a pair of assists and steals and both Leon Evans and Kevaro Russell helped out with seven.

“We have to prepare tomorrow (today),” said Johnson as they get ready for the final. “Sunland (Baptist) is also a very good team, so we have to be prepared for a fight.” disallowed either side of Martinelli’s strike.

Stingers 66, Falcons 55: Tianno Roberts exploded for a couple of slam dunks and five three-pointers for a game high 25 points to power Sunland Baptist back into the final, having won the last Hugh Campbell title. He also had seven rebounds and two steals. Jordan Saunders added 11 points with five assists, three rebounds and three steals and Uriel Delancy had 10 points with 19 rebounds. De’Nage Kelly had nine points and six rebounds.

It built on the 4-2 win at Aston Villa last week.

“Sometimes the wave is created very far from the beach,” Arteta said. “Then it’s too late to avoid what is going to happen. We had to improve on those things and today we’ve done that really well.”

EASIER FOR CITY

Haaland scored either side of Julian Alvarez and Phil Foden, with an owngoal by Chris Mepham wrapping up the scoring for City against Bournemouth. It is six consecutive matches without a clean sheet for Pep Guardiola’s team, however, after Jefferson Lerma’s 83rd-minute strike for the hosts.

WINNING START

Javi Gracia launched his Leeds reign with a 1-0 win over Southampton in a match between teams who started as the bottom two. Junior Firpo scored in the 77th minute to secure Leeds’ first win since December 26. Leeds jumped two places and out of the relegation zone, leaving Southampton rooted to last place and four points adrift of safety.

Bournemouth is in nextto-last place and on the same number of points as Everton, which was beaten at home by Aston Villa 2-0 thanks to goals by Ollie Watkins — who has scored in five straight games — and Emi Buendia.

West Ham started the day in third-to-last place but swept past Nottingham Forest with a 4-0 thrashing.

All of the goals came in the final 20 minutes, with Danny Ings scoring twice before Declan Rice and Michail Antonio added others.

LIVERPOOL HELD

After conceding five goals to Real Madrid in the Champions League in midweek, Liverpool at least tightened up at the back in a 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace. Jurgen Klopp’s team was short of attacking inspiration, however, with Darwin Nunez out injured. Mohamed Salah curled a shot against the crossbar in a game of few real chances at Selhurst Park.

Liverpool moved up one place to seventh and is six points off the Champions League qualification positions with a game in hand.

“This was a revenge game for us. We knew that we were the number one team in Grand Bahama until we lost in the championship,” said Sunland’s coach Jay. “We went back to the drawing board, regrouped, fixed some things and we came back. The guys executed very well. So I am very proud of these guys.”

The Stingers led coastto-coast as they opened a 19-16 first quarter lead. They extended it to 37-28 at the half and pushed it to 51-37 at the end of the third. They also out-rebounded the Falcons 40-31 and had two less turnovers with an 18-20 advantage.

In a losing effort for Tabernacle Baptist, Noah Bain led the way with 15 points, four assists and four steals. Aiden Miller and Joshua Williams both had 13 points with six and five rebounds respectively. Bradleon Miller added eight points, nine rebounds and a pair of block shots.

After having their undefeated winning streak snapped during the final, Jay said they are now looking forward to going all the way in the Hugh Campbell tourney and right now the only team standing in their way is the Rattlers.