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Commando Security Truckers earn national softball title

THOMAS Davis was stingy on the mound and Marvin ‘Tougie’ Wood came up with a clutch two-run home run and that helped to propel the Commando Security Truckers back into the limelight as they clinched the Bahamas Softball Federation men’s national championship title.

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THE Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools is all set to begin its sudden death softball playoffs at Freedom Farm Park in Yamacraw this week. After seven weeks of action during the regular season, the four contestants in all four divisions - juniors boys and girls and boys and senior girls and boys - have been determined.

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Lady Stingers are national champions

A hobbling Keisha Pratt went 3-for-4, sparking an eight-run sixth inning with a run-producing double and Thela Johnson gave up six hits with eight strike outs as the Lady Stingers stunned Grand Bahama’s Lady Wolverines 12-8 to secure the Bahamas Softball Federation ladies’ round robin championship title.

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THE New Providence Oldtimers Softball Association is slated to return to action over the weekend of November 7-8.

BSF National Round Robin Results

RESULTS of the Bahamas Softball Federation’s National Round Robin Tournament, held October 29 to November 1, are as follows:

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Sprinter Anthonique Strachan to undergo surgery

A sports hernia will delay sprinter Anthonique Strachan's comeback and she will prepare to undergo surgery on Monday in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Truckers open up with 9-2 win over Cougars

The Commando Security Truckers rode the pair of solo home runs from Teran Wood and another from Courtney Smith as they went on to pull off a 9-2 victory over the Brokell Construction Cougars as the Bahamas Softball Federation’s 43rd National Softball Championship got underway last night in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.

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United Purpose looks to overthrow Sands for BAAA presidency

PRECISELY one month before the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’ annual general meeting and election of officers is held, presidential candidate Rosemunde Carey officially launched her slate of United Purpose, whom she expects will carry the sport forward over the next three years.

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COB Caribs hope to turn tables on Florida Memorial University Lions

AFTER losing out in a keenly contested showdown last year, the College of the Bahamas Caribs men’s basketball team is hoping to turn the tables on the Florida Memorial University Lions when they host a two-game series over the weekend of November 6-7 at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.

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THE Bahamas Rugby Union is scheduled to kick off its 2015 Nassau Cup regular season with Buccaneers versus Baillou 4pm Saturday at the Winton Rugby Centre.

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SANCHESKA Vs RENALDO: NFL Picks Week 8

RENALDO: This is what Thomas Jefferson felt like when he took quill to parchment to write the Declaration of Independence.

Cougars top the Falcons 23-11

ALTHOUGH they are headed to the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) senior boys’ softball playoffs, there was a lot of bragging rights for the Charles W Saunders Cougars and the Jordan Prince William Falcons.

Basketball standout Sasha Ferguson first athletic trainer at COB

FROM running the floor as a shooting guard at the high school, collegiate and national level, Sasha Ferguson has emerged as the first athletic trainer at the College of the Bahamas.

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NAUGHTY'S NFL PICKS Week 8

‘A very surprising and borderline whacky week’

I WENT 7-7 in a very surprising and borderline whacky week. Considering all that transpired, I’ll take it. Here’s who I like this week :