TWO of the three defending champions suffered a defeat on Saturday as the Baptist Sports Council began its 2013 Basketball Classic at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.
In the 15-and-under division, Faith United held off the defending champions Macedonia Baptist 32-30 as both Travis Barnett and Gary Williams had seven and Levonne Moxey and Kendrick Armbrister had six apiece. Delano Jolly had a game high 11 and Shamar Burrows added nine in the loss.
In a rematch of the 19-and-under finals from last year, Macedonia got revenge with a 50-42 decision over defending champions Latter-Day Eagles. Van Hutchinson had a game high 16 and Levigi Forbes had eight in the win. J Williams had 14 in the loss.
And in the men’s game, defending champions Macedonia routed Golden Gates 47-35 as Van Hutchinson canned a game high 20 points and Abel Joseph added eight. Raynard Minus led the losers with 10 points.
Also, Faith United men knocked off St Mark’s 53-48 as Keithlyn Gray scored a game high 34 points and Stephano Miller added 12. Allan Curry had 18 in the loss.
BIBA men surprised Golden Gates 45-41 behind Tommy Carroll’s 17. Kyheil Roberts had 12 in a losing effort.
St John’s men beat St Mark’s 42-38 and St John’s 19-and-under pounded Mt Nebo 41-26, but no individual stats were available for both games.
Golden Gates’ 19-and-under knocked off Latter-Day’s B team 40-31 as Neil Sands had 10 points. Vincent Bromwell had eight in the loss.
Macedonia’s 19-and-under prevailed with a 31-26 decision over Mt Nebo as Delano Knowles canned 14 points. Dennis Brown had a game high 17 in the loss.
And Latter-Day’s 15-and-under clobbered Mt Nebo 29-10 as Vincent Bromwell had nine points. Dennis Johnson had eight in the loss.
A series of games are on tap for this Saturday before the league takes a break for the Easter holiday.
Here’s how they will stack up on Saturday:
Court One
10am - Faith United vs
Latter-Day (15)
11am - Cousin McPhee vs
Faith United (15)
Noon - Golden Gates vs
St John’s (19)
1pm - Macedonia 1 vs
Latter-Day 2 (19)
2pm - Men of Vision vs
Macedonia (M)
3pm - Golden Gates 2 vs
St Mark’s (M)
Court Two
10am - Macedonia vs
Mt Nebo (15)
11am - St John’s vs
Faith United 2 (15)
Noon - Latter-Day 1 vs
St Mark’s (19)
1pm - Mt Nebo vs
Macedonia 2 (2)
2pm - Golden Gates 1 vs
Latter-Day (M)
3pm - BIBA vs
Faith United (M)
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