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Three teams exit in National High School Basketball Championships

Day two of the National High School Basketball Championships featured the first round of eliminations as the field in Division I of the double elimination tournament was reduced by three.

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Top ranked high school teams clash in Freeport

The National High School Basketball Championships opened yesterday in Freeport, Grand Bahama, featuring the top ranked senior boys and girls programmes in the country.

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Volleyball: Vixens and Intruders 2-0 in best-of-5 series

BOTH last year’s defending champions Scottsdale Vixens and National Fence Intruders won the first two games of the New Providence Volleyball Association’s best-of-five championship series at the DW Davis Gymnasium.

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Wardy ‘Shakespeare’ Ford ‘tried to help people whenever he could’

THE talented Ford family lost another piece of its heritage with the death of Wardy Ford on Wednesday night at their homestead on Winsdor Lane.

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THE FINISH LINE: Hugh Campbell ‘rules and regulations should be consistent’ across the board

THE 35th Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic saw the Tabernacle Baptist Academy Falcons taking the prestigious senior boys’ basketball title back to Grand Bahama for the seventh year.

SPORTS NOTES

THE New Providence Basketball Association resumed its regular season action at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday night after taking a break for the 35th Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic for senior boys.

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Junior tennis champions

The Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association completed its Subway Junior National Classics yesterday at the National Tennis Centre with Sydney Clarke, Michael Major Jr and Kaylee Kanuka winning the final three titles.

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PM HAS HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR THE FIFA BEACH SOCCER WORLD CUP

PRIME Minister Perry Christie, expressing the gratitude of the Bahamian people to FIFA and the Bahamas Football Association, said it was a delight to have hosted the successful CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship in the brand new state-of-the-art stadium at Malcolm Park last week.

High School Basketball Nationals starts today

FOLLOWING the completion of the 35th Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic for senior boys, the Bahamas Basketball Federation/Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is getting set to host their National High School Tournament, featuring the senior boys and girls and Family Island divisions.

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Charlton top athlete of Big Ten Track Championships again

BAHAMIAN Devynne Charlton was named the top athlete of the Big Ten Track Championships, it was announced by the conference office on Tuesday.

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Beach Soccer World Cup ‘puts our rich cultural heritage on display’

THE hosting the of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bahamas 2017 represents several milestones, not only for the Bahamas but for FIFA and the sport of beach soccer round the world.

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‘This is the best performance we have ever had as a federation’

D’ARCY Rahming, president of the Bahamas Judo Federation, said Team Bahamas’ performance at the Florida Open in Miami over the weekend was “the best performance we have ever had as a federation.”

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Bahamas has ‘tough draw’ for Beach Soccer WCup

As hosts, Bahamas was drawn as the top seed to play out of Group A against Switzerland, Ecuador and Senegal in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in April at the Malcolm Park beach soccer stadium.

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BFA official hits back at beach soccer team selection criticism

A LEADING Bahamas football official yesterday refuted suggestions that the Bahamas Football Association (BFA) had not assembled the best team possible to represent the country in the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship last week.

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Falcons take the title back to Grand Bahama

THE Tabernacle Baptist Falcons carried the prestigious Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic title for senior boys back to Grand Bahama after pulling off a 58-52 victory over the CI Gibson Rattlers.