Comets soar to championship
The Queen’s College Comets withstood a late run by the St John’s College Giants and held on to take game two and claim the BAISS Junior Boys Basketball Championship.
Bahamas passes biggest test yet
IN their biggest test in the International Cricket Council’s Tournament of the Americas Division II competition, the Bahamas survived with a 14 run victory over Argentina to highlight day one action at Haynes Oval.
How sports can reach out
IN an effort to provide an avenue for Bahamians to gain more knowledge in effective sports outreach, Commune Sports Bahamas and the International Sports Coalition is hosting a Sports Outreach Level 1 certification course.
'Getting stadium ready for Carifta was biggest hurdle'
SINCE taking office a year ago, chairman Leroy Archer said he’s faced a lot of challenges in getting the National Sports Authority established.
Sports notes
THE Amateur Boxing Federation of the Bahamas has selected its national team that will represent the Bahamas at the Presidential Cup Boxing Tournament that will be held in Santiago, Dominican Republic. The event will run from February 18-22.
Record run for Shaunae
FRESHMAN Shaunae Miller, the moast decorated athlete expected home to represent the Bahamas at the Carifta Games next month, inked her name in the record books at the University of Georgia in just her first appearance in an indoor event in her specialty in the women’s 400 metres over the weekend for the Lady Bulldogs.
Athletes shine on the track
A number of exciting match-ups between local and international competitors took place on Saturday as the Star Trackers Club hosted their 10th annual Star Performers Track Classic at the new Thomas A. Robinson Track and Field Stadium.
Sports notes
The BTC Digitals and the Mail Boat Cybots won the New Providence Basketball Association’s double header on Saturday night at the CI Gibson Gymnasium. The results of their games are as follows:
National trials for bowling out of time
AFTER a series of delays to adjust the lanes, the Bahamas Federation of Amateur Bowlers was unable to complete their second round of six games for the National team trials on Saturday because management needed the lanes for their other patrons.
Major starts season with victory
JAY Major started off the year on the right foot, winning the first race as the Bahamas Cycling Federation kicked off the 2013 Cycling season on Saturday with the New Providence Cycling Association’s 30 mile road race.
Star Performers Track Classic results
Results from the 10th Star Performers Track Classic held on Saturday at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium.
Aiming high
WHEN Orlando Cuellar first heard about Valentino Knowles, he knew that he was a credible fighter that he would love to have in his camp in Miami, Florida. After watching Knowles’ successful debut over the weekend, Cuellar is confident that he has acquired across a “future” world champion.
Call to continue to develop softball
FREEPORT, Grand Bahama, Bahamas: Aruba carted off the title in the 1st English Caribbean Amateur Softball Confederation’s Women’s Championship and Qualifier for the World Games in Cali, Colombia in July with a 13-5 victory over The Bahamas.
Next generation of golfers take their first swings
ON Thursday, January 24, the Yellow Elder Primary School made a giant leap by introducing golf in their Physical Education period for sixteen (16) boys and girls ages seven to nine years old.
Playoff ends in mass brawl
THE St Augustine’s College Big Red Machine will be back to defend their senior boys title when the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools’ best-of-three championship series get underway on Monday at the Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium.
