UB Mingoes men fight way back to 68-58 victory over Sand Dollar

THE University of The Bahamas Mingoes men’s basketball team started off slow against one of the top teams in the New Providence Basketball Association on Saturday night.

The Mingoes trailed Sand Dollar 14-4 with 2:57 to go in the first quarter but The Mingoes proved the adage that it’s how you finish that matters.

The Mingoes came back to pick up one of the team’s biggest wins of the season with the 68-58 win over the second-place overall team in the league.

Sand Dollar leads The John Archer Division with an 8-2 record after the loss. The 8-2 record is the second best in the league

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Virginia Romer, president of the New Providence Association of Principals of Public Secondary Schools, said despite a late start, the event planning process has been good.

“We have been meeting and putting things in place, we may not have started as early as we should have but behind The Discount Distributor Liquor Rockets which leads the Vince Ferguson Division with a 10-0 record.

Erquantae Edgecombe led The Mingoes with 28 points and five rebounds.

Justin Burrows contributed 13 points, seven steals and six rebounds and Ricardo Taylor Jr. posted 11 points.

“The shots were falling for us here tonight,” Edgecombe said.

“We had a lot of inside shots that connected. Especially in this league we need those shots to drop. The game plan was to come out defensively with a lot of communication and talking with intensity, especially coming from an international tour and using that experience here in the league.” we are playing catchup,” said Romer. Romer also gave credit to retired assistant director of education Keith Saunders for helping with this year’s GSSSA planning process.

On day one of the meet the girls and boys U-13 and U-15 100M preliminaries will start the day of track events for the three-day meet.

The public is advised that ticket prices for the event are $10 for the VIP section,

$5 for the general public, and $3 for high school students. High school students will be provided with tickets for purchasing at their respective schools.

Romer informed students of the appropriate dress code and security measures to be taken at the track and field meet.

“We are asking our students to come in their school t-shirts that is what we are asking when they come to the gate they have to be wearing school t-shirts, they are not coming in their own clothes,” Romer said.

Erquantae Edgecombe scored 15 points, including three 3-pointers, in the second quarter to pull The Mingoes tied at 25-25 to end the half.

Into the third quarter Edgecombe and Ricardo Taylor Jr. combined for 17 points to push The Mingoes ahead 53-40.

The Mingoes were able to hold off a late surge from Sand Dollar to pick up the 68-58 win.

The Mingoes had 36 points in the paint and 24 points off fast breaks.

Delano Armbrister and Theodore Grant each contributed four assists for The Mingoes.

A big statistic for the side was turnovers and points off turnovers.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force and security from the different high schools will be present to assist with searching attendees of the event.

The official opening ceremony for the track and field championships will commence at 10am Thursday. The first race is set to begin at 9:45am on Wednesday.

The Mingoes forced 29 turnovers and were able to covert those turnovers for 32 points.

The Mingoes now hold firm in the third spot in The Vince Ferguson Division with a 5-5 record.

Sand Dollar still leads the John Archer Division with an 8-2 record.

The Mingoes are expected to play Zulu Media Marketing 7pm March 3 at The A.F. Adderley Gym.

Marlins, coached by Denycko Bowles, in 2019. The tournament was the brainchild of Alsworth ‘Whitey’ Pickstock, Collins and Alfred Forbes, who wanted to provide an opportunity for the young basketball players to enhance their skills at the conclusion of the school league.

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that we did not tap into which we are gonna do so moving forward and prepare them,” Frazier added. The Comets look forward to competing against all private secondary schools, including Lyford Cay in the 2023 track and field meet however, they are expecting a challenge from the Big Red Machine.

QC and SAC have exchanged victories in the recent BAISS track and field championships. The Comets were victorious for the first time in 2015 and won again in 2016. SAC was able to regain their title in 2017 and 2018. The Comets however was the last victor among the two teams in their last meetup at the 2019 BAISS track and field championships.

“We know that the Big Red Machine is gonna be ready and we expect them to be on their A game and its gonna always be a battle between QC and SAC,” Frazier said.

The head coach hopes that more schools will be able to compete with the rivals in this year’s event.

The two powerhouse schools will look to continue their rivalry at the BAISS Track and Field Championships at 9am on Wednesday.

The inter-school competition is scheduled for Wednesday through Friday when a winner will be crowned.

New Zealand Edges England By One Run In Test Cricket Thriller

By STEVE MCMORRAN AP Sports Writer

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tim Southee’s New Zealand team earned two places in international cricket history with its dramatic, one-run comeback win over England in the second test.

It was only the fourth team after England (in 1894 and 1981) and India (in 2001) to win a test match after being forced to follow-on and only the second after the West Indies to win by a margin of one run. New Zealand also was part of one of the most tense final days of a test match when at various times both teams had victory in their grasp and even a rare tie seemed possible.

At the start of Day 5, a New Zealand win seemed the most unlikely of all possible scenarios: it had lost the series-opening match by 267 runs and been forced to follow-on 226 runs behind in the second test. New Zealand was depleted: its bowling lineup depended heavily on the new ball pair of Tim Southee and Matt Henry in the absence of Trent Boult and Kyle Jamieson.