The Tribune

THE Palmetto Point Legends were crowned the Eleuthera Junior Baseball League of Rock Sound’s 9-12 divisional champions.

The Legends swept the Tarpum Bay Mosquitoes 2-0 in their best-of-three series recently in Tarpum Bay.

In the best-of-three semifinals, the Legends also swept the Rock Sound Marlins 2-0, while the Mosquitoes won 2-0 over the Green Castle Dragons.

The Legends finished the season with a 6-2 win-loss record. The Dragons clinched second place with a 5-3 record, while the Mosquitoes and the Marlins were both 3-5, but were separated for third and fourth place based on their head-to-head competition.

Larry Forbes, president of the JBLRS, said he and their board members were pleased with the growth and development of baseball in the communities of Green Castle, Tarpum By, Palmetto Point and Rock Sound this season.

“We look forward to further expansion next season to Governor’s Harbour and beyond,” he said. “An invitation is extended to all settlements on Eleuthera to join this baseball movement.”

Forbes extended congratulations to the league’s dedicated coaches and support staff of all the teams in the league, inclusive of Green Castle, coached by Donald Wright; Rock Sound, coached by Marco Bethel, Rev. Lincoln Young and Larry Forbes; Tarpum Bay, coached by Sgt. Cyril Dean, Stephen Moss and Morris Carey and Palmetto Point, coached by Wilson Cooper, Elline Sineus, Arnold Culmer and Laura Culmer.

The league is now preparing to send an 11-12 All-Star team to the Bahamas Baseball Federation’s 15th annual Andre Rodgers Baseball Nationals this weekend in Grand Bahama.