LITTLE LEAGUE AGM HELD IN FREEPORT
THE Latin America and Caribbean Little League Congress held its Annual General Meeting in Freeport to discuss plans for the upcoming 2016 baseball tournament and rules and regulations and amendments for this year.
Bobcats win Banker’s League basketball tourney
THE Bank of the Bahamas Bobcats were on fire this year, scoring a decisive victory in the recent Banker’s League Basketball Tournament to claim the winner’s trophy and bragging rights for a year.
HUGH CAMPBELL: The Final Four
The final matchups are all set headed into championship night in the 33rd Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic.
Athletes qualify for CARIFTA at annual track classic
AT least three athletes attained the qualifying standards for the CARIFTA Games on Saturday during the 10th Annual Road Runners Dianne Lynn Thompson Track Classic at the Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium.
Devynne helps lead the Boilermakers to second place
DEVYNNE Charlton turned in another big performance over the weekend as she helped to lead the Purdue University Boilermakers women’s track team to a second place finish at the Big Ten Conference Championships in Geneva, Ohio, where she turned in three personal best times, two school records, a facility record and a Bahamian national record.
Jones still out with shoulder injury
WITH Grand Bahamian senior Jonquel Jones still out with an injury, juniors Hannah Schaible and Caira Washington each registered double-doubles to lead the George Washington women’s basketball team to a 73-66 victory over Revolutionary Rival and Atlantic 10 foe George Mason on Saturday afternoon in the regular-season finale at EagleBank Arena.
‘Q’ Ferguson looking forward to fine season
BAHAMIAN sprinter Sheniqua ‘Q’ Ferguson is loving it in Jamaica. Having made the move from her former training base to join the MVP Track Club, Ferguson says everything is going well. Despite early nervousness about the change, she is now looking forward to a fine season.
Sports notes
THIS weekend, the KPMG Youth Winter Championship is all set for Montagu Bay. This is the second year of KPMG’s undertaking to be the proud sponsor of Bahamas National Sailing School’s Annual Junior Winter Regatta.
Teams eliminated as field reduced to 24
Day four of the prestigious 33rd Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic featured the first group of eliminations as the field was reduced to 24 teams.
Time to fine tune swimmers for CARIFTA, says coach
WITH the team now selected, head coach Allan Murray said it’s now time for the coaching staff to fine tune the swimmers before they head off to Martinique at the end of March to go for their third straight CARIFTA Swimming Championships.
THE FINISH LINE: A remarkable turnaround for CR Walker Knights
So the CR Walker Knights are back on top of the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association track and field chart. Under first year coach Ednal Rolle, they regained the championship title that they relinquished to the CV Bethel Stingrays two years ago.
MOT in new partnership with Florida Panthers hockey team
THE Ministry of Tourism (MOT) has inked a deal and new partnership with the Florida Panthers hockey team.
Sports Notes
THE top scorer in Financial Bowling League competition last night was Kevin B Williams of the Strike Force with a 610 high three game set.
Falcons get 42-32 win over Sentinels
Family Island teams took to the floor for the first time this week on day three of the 33rd Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic.
Eagles win their first tourney game in 3 years
THE Clement Howell Eagles out of the Turks and Caicos Islands have brought diversity to the Hugh Campbell Tournament for the past four years.
