SPORTS SECTION E
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2016
Falcons fly high to get past the Blue Waves JORDAN PRINCE WILLIAMS SENIOR BOYS EARN 68-52 VICTORY OVER ST ANNE’S By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
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ordan Prince Williams Falcons showed St Anne’s Blue Waves why they are the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) senior boys defending basketball champions. Yesterday, the Falcons flew into the Blue Waves territory and used their high-flying attack to pull off a 68-52 victory to remain undefeated at 4-0. With the loss, the Blue Waves dropped to 3-2. Although he came off the bench with the rest of the starters in the second quarter, Adam Johnson was a game changer on both ends of the court as he finished with 13 points, including a couple of slam dunks. Frantwion Newton, who fouled out in the fourth quarter, led Jordan Prince Williams’ attack with 14 points. Sherman Martin contributed 11 and both Wilfred Ferguson and Koy Martin, who had three three-pointers, helped out with nine each.
ABOVE THE RIM: Adam Johnson’s two-handed dunk lifted the Jordan Prince Williams Falcons - the defending BAISS champions - for the win against the St Anne’s Blue Waves yesterday. Photo: Shawn Hanna/The Tribune “I was just trying to see what they were going to throw at us,” said Jordan Prince Williams’ coach Ernest Saunders. “I expected more. They are a good team and they put up a fight.” Up 21-19 midway in the second quarter, Saunders brought in his starters and they “outhustled” the
Blue Waves on a 7-3 spurt, which was sparked by Adam Johnson’s two-handed dunk, to go up 28-22 at the half and they never looked back. “We still have a little more work to do on the defensive and offensive ends and we will be where we need to be,” Saunders said. “When I go back and look at the
video, I will see where and what we need to work on and hopefully we will sort it out.” For St Anne’s, Ashton Knowles, who had a strong start with eight points in the first quarter, paced the Blue Waves with a game high
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STANDING OVATION FOR BUDDY HIELD IN OKLAHOMA By RENALDO DORSETT Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net IT is not often that you see a home crowd give a standing ovation to an opposing player, but that is exactly the reception Buddy Hield received when he returned to Oklahoma as a professional. Hield recovered from his recent struggles and scored 16 points in 15 minutes of his New Orleans Pelicans’ 101-92 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Sunday night. It was one of Hield’s most efficient performances of his rookie season thus far as he shot 50 per cent from the field (6-12), 57 per cent from the three-point line (4-7) and added four rebounds. Hield returned to the friendly confines of a state where he starred at the University of Oklahoma for four years and won virtually every award imaginable, including the Naismith, Wooden and Oscar Robertson awards.
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BAHAMAS BOWL ADDS ANOTHER Call on corporate Bahamas to sponsor sloops CHAPTER TO BUDDING RIVALRY SEE PAGE 2
By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
WITH the local sailing sloops getting a big boost over the weekend with the successful staging of the first Best-of-the-Best Regatta in Montagu Bay, one local sailing enthusiast is calling on corporate Bahamas to get more involved in sponsoring the boats to make the sport more viable for the owners and sailors. While the newly formed telephone company Aliv came on board just in time to sponsor the Thunderbird for the regatta, James Wallace said he’s hoping that others will reach out to the sailing community to get involved as the sport continues to grow. “Sloop sailing in the Bahamas has been sponsored by a number of individuals for a number of years,” he said. “But the sport is growing to the level where corporate Bahamas needs to fully participate and get involved by getting value for their money by advertising on these sloops while they are racing. “They go from island to island doing these Family Island regattas and homecomings, so it is a great opportunity for corporate Bahamas to get involved by putting their logos on sails and boats and help to enhance and keep the sport going.” Depending on the level of involvement they want to commit
By RENALDO DORSETT Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net
costly it is to maintain the boats, he said if a sail on an A class is broken, the boat owner will have to find at least $3,000 to replace it, if they can’t get it repaired. The B class would be around $2,500, while the C class expense could be about $1,500. That only depends on the size of the sail, which varies according to what the boat owner or skipper wants to use
THE 2016 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl will add another chapter to the budding rivalry between the Old Dominion Monarchs and the Eastern Michigan Eagles. When the teams meet at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium at 1pm on December 23, it will be their third meeting in three years. Old Dominion has the edge in the head-to-head matchup thus far. In 2014 they scored a 17-3 victory, followed by a 38-34 win last season. Monarchs’ head coach Bobby Wilder said that despite his teams two wins, the nature of each game dictates the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl is in for yet another thrilling finish. “We have had two very competitive, hard fought, clean competitive football games against them. Both
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ALIV came on board just in time to sponsor the Thunderbird for the Best-of-the-Best Regatta in Montagu Bay. Photo: Patrick Hanna/BIS to, he said they can purchase the sail and have their logo designed on it, or they can put a sticker on the hull of the boat. In making that kind of contribution, he said they will in turn assist the boat owners, who have to provide a stipend for their crew members whenever they travel to compete. Wallace said it’s a costly venture for the boat owners, who spend roughly $100,000 to build an A class boat, $60,000 for a B class
and about 25-30,000 for a C class. “To maintain these boats, you have to spend about $20,000 a year for an A class boat,” he said. “These are actually wooden hulls that they build, prepared and paint to make them look like a metal finish. They do a fantastic job, but it’s certainly a dedication and love of the sport for the boat owners as to why they invest so much money into it.” Just to give you an idea of how