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MONDAY, JULY 18, 2016
Under-16 girls win CBC title, qualify for CentroBasket By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunmedia.net
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ith just 10 players on their roster, two of whom were added for the exposure, the Bahamas girls’ team joined the boys in winning the Caribbean Basketball Confederation’s Under-16 girls championship title and qualifying for the CentroBasket Under-17 Tournament. It was the first time in history that the Bahamas has emerged as double junior champions in the same tournament, albeit they played a week a part of each other, in Georgetown, Guyana. The senior men and women, however, have won both Caricom Basketball Tournament titles in the same year. Like the boys’ team, the girls capped off a perfect run through the tournament, but the championship game turned out to be a real nail biter as they held off Suriname 55-50 at the Cliff
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS: Bahamas under-16 girls’ team joined the boys in winning the Caribbean Basketball Confederation’s Under-16 girls championship title and qualifying for the CentroBasket Under-17 Tournament. Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday night. Tanae Bowleg, shooting 26-of-32 from the field and 9-of-11 from the free throw
line, led the Bahamas with 19 points, four rebounds and four steals. Valencia Demeritte, in 30:15 minutes, was 6-for-16 from the
field and 2-for-5 from the charity stripe as she ended up with 14 points, nine rebounds and four steals. Demeritte, by the way,
was named the most valuable player. She scored a total of 60 points. “It feels very good. It’s been a very long time since
Bahamas back in Zone II By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net A PAIR of singles victories by Spencer and Baker Newman was all the Bahamas needed to dispose of Jamaica to win their American Zone III Davis Cup semi-finals and end a seven-year drought as the Bahamas now advances back up to Zone II in 2017. Not only did the Bahamas complete a sweep of their crossover playoff match, but their week-long impressive undefeated performance in La Paz, Bolivia, as the Newman brothers, making their debut for the Bahamas, got the job done in grand style. Spencer came back from a 6-3 loss in the first set to pull off a 6-1, 7-5 win over Damian Johnson to get the ball rolling. Baker, back in action after taking a day off on Thursday to allow Philip Major Jr to play in their 3-0 sweep over Trinidad & Tobago to complete their Group B round robin, responded with a 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 decision over Damion Johnson to secure a 2-0 decision. With the tie complete, there was no need for player/captain Marvin Rolle and Spencer Newman to go onto the court to play the doubles against Jamaica’s Dominic Pagon and Rowland Phillips. “Bahamas did it. We came out with the team victory,” said Rolle as they celebrated in Bolivia. “Spencer played the first match. He lost the first set. He came out a little nervous, but he won the second set. In the third set, he was down 5-4 with Jamaica serving for it, and he was able to hang in there and came out with the win. “Baker came on second and he
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the women’s programme won any type of championship,” said Davis, a former national team player turned head coach of the junior programme. “So it feels really, really good.” Davis, who was assisted by Charlene ‘Swish’ Smith and Anastacia Moultrie, said the team had to dig down deep to come out on top because it wasn’t as easy as it was in their pool play where they dominated their opponents by an average of 10-20 points. “It was hard fought tonight. We really had to work hard to win this game,” she said. “We didn’t take them for granted. But in tournaments like these, you have to fight against five players and the referees. “But we pulled it off. We kept our composure, we made our free throws and we did the necessary things to win this game tonight.” During the tournament, the Bahamas also posted the highest score in a game,
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SHAUNAE MAKING ‘A STRONG CASE’ FOR 400 AND 20OM DOUBLE AT OLYMPICS By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
WELL DONE TEAM BAHAMAS: Shown (l-r) are Kevin Major Jr, Spencer and Baker Newman and Marvin Rolle proudly holding the national flag after their victory in Bolivia.
WITH her focus expected to be on the women’s 400 metres at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brail, Shaunae Miller continues to make a strong case for a double appearance with the 200m as well. Using her 6-foot-1 frame, the 22-year-old Miller exploded past her rivals coming off the curve and easily picked up another victory in the half-lap race at the Track Town Classic in Edmonton, Canada, on Friday night. The world’s second fastest woman over that distance so far this year clocked 22.38 seconds to hold off a strong field that saw Americans Joanna Atkins (22.54) and Alexandria Anderson (22.90) settle for second and third respectively. In the process, Miller erased the meet and Foote Field records that were set by American Shalonda Solomon in 2013. The Track Town Classic was the last meeting of the 2016 National Track League (NTL) Series and first major international meeting and “Olympic Preview” in
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Athletes claim 8 medals at NACAC Under-23 Championships By RENALDO DORSETT Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net A BUSY weekend for Bahamas track and field included participation in the North American Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC U-23) Championships. The Bahamas closed out the meet in San Salvador, El Salvador, with a total of eight medals including one gold, two silver and five bronze at the Jorge Gonzalez National Stadium. The 15-member team included Tayla Carter, Carmiesha Cox, Jermeka McBride, Pedra Seymour and Danielle Gibson on the women’s side and Tadashi Pinder, Ian Kerr, Anthony Adderley, Stephen Newbold, Ashley Riley, Janeko Cartwright, Andre Colebrooke, Maverick Bowleg, Lathone Collie and Drexel Maycock.
Danielle Gibson won the country’s lone gold medal of the meet in the women’s triple jump. On her fourth jump of the competition, she leapt 13.54m to take first place. Simone Charley of the United States was second at 13.77m and Danielle McQueen was third at 13.61m. National record holder Pedrya Seymour won silver in the women’s 100 metre hurdles. Seymour took second in 12.83 seconds, behind Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico who set a new NACAC U-23 record in 12.78. In the women’s 100m final, Carmiesha Cox took the bronze medal in 11.76 while Tayla Carter was eigth in 12.07. Sashalee Forbes of Jamaica took first place in 11.51 and Shayla Saunders of the United States was second in 11.52. In the men’s triple jump, Lathone Collie-Minns won silver with a leap of 15.80m, recorded on his
DANIELLE GIBSON celebrates her gold medal performance in the triple jump at the NACAC Under-23 Championships. fourth attempt. Ian Kerr won bronze in the men’s 200m in 20.83 behind Reynier Mena of Cuba in 20.41 and
Stanly del Carmen of the Dominican Republic in 20.51. Stephen Newbold was the country’s top finisher in the men’s
400m final. He took fifth place in 46.27 in an event won by Nathan Allen of Jamaica in 45.39. Andre Colebrooke finished in seventh place in the men’s 400m hurdles in 51.85. In the men’s 100m final, Tadashi Pinder finished fifth in 10.59. Kendal Williams of the United States won first place in 10.23. Drexel Maycock finished sixth in the men’s discus with a throw of 50.50m. In the relay events, the Bahamas won a trio of bronze medals. The women’s 4x100m relay, the Bahamas’ team of Seymour, Carter, Gibson and Cox, took third place in 45.17. The US took first place and set a new NACAC U-23 record in 42.93 followed by Jamaica in 43.63. The men’s 4x100m team also finished with a bronze medal.
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