Lions advance with 22-20 win over Sharks
IT came down to a battle between two of the league’s top scorers to decide the second finalist for the GSSSA junior girls’ basketball championship series.
Bahamas back in Zone II
The Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association will have to start the process all over again for supremacy in the prestigious Fed Cup after the three-member team of Nikkita Fountain, Iesha Shepherd and player/captain Larikah Russell got relegated to the Americas Zone II for 2015.
Leevan in Hall of Fame glory
LEEVAN ‘SUPERMAN’ SANDS has been inducted into the Barton County Community College Hall of Fame. Accompanied by his oldest son, Leevan III, Sands went to Great Bend, Kansas, on Saturday to join four other persons who were enshrined in the 3pm ceremony on the lower level of the Kirkman Activity Centre on the Barton campus.
Adderley meets CARIFTA standard in double victory
PERRY Adderley turned in another CARIFTA Games qualifying performance with his double dose of victory as a group of field coaches hosted their second Throwers All-Comers Meet on Saturday.
Sports in brief
THE Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools’ best-of-three basketball playoffs is slated to continue today at Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.
Devynne on the fast track to personal best
WHILE sprinter Carmiesha Cox recuperates from injury, sprinter/hurdler Devynne Charlton continues to turn in some impressive personal best times in her freshman indoor season for the Purdue University Boilermakers.
'We are really looking forward to this one'
A STAPLE on the local sloop sailing calendar, the 27th edition of the St Valentine’s Day Regatta will produce what is being billed as one of the most anticipated editions of the event to date.
American basketball league's pre-draft camp this weekend
THE country’s best basketball players have less than a week to fine tune their skills before they attempt to seize an historic opportunity of playing professionally in the Bahamas for the first time in the history of local basketball.
'It's always good to have a fellow Bahamian competing'
AFTER skipping the IAAF World Championships last year because of an injury, Trevor Barry is working his way back into form to return to action next month at the IAAF World Indoors in Sopot, Poland.
Sports in brief
THE New Providence Volleyball Association’s best-of-three playoffs got started at the DW Davis Gymnasium Wednesday night.
Lyford Cay International School hosts KPMG Football Fest 2014
WHEN 120 football players from four different Caribbean countries get together to play 36 matches in two days it can’t be anything other than a great experience for everyone. Last weekend the beautiful football pitch at Lyford Cay International School (LCIS) saw an exciting series of high level 13-and-under football matches played by students from international schools across the Caribbean.
Quest for Catholic Primary basketball title begins
WITH the closure of two of their schools, the Catholic Board of Education’s Primary Schools 2014 Basketball League will be decided between just four schools.
On his way to home of the UC Bearcats
CHRIS Ferguson, the son of bodybuilder Danita Fry, has signed his official letter to attend the University of Cincinnati.
Fed Cup: Bahamas’ 3-0 loss to Brazil
The Bahamas’ 3-member team could surely use some help from last year’s team at this week’s Fed Cup Americas Zone One tie at the Paraguayan Yacht and Golf Club in Lambare, Paraguay.
Frank Rutherford Foundation hats off to Saunders
THE Frank Rutherford Foundation and the Elite Bahamian Education Programme want to congratulate Mavin Saunders and his family, in particular, his parents, Elvis and Mavis Saunders on him signing a full athletic football scholarship with the 2013 national champions, Florida State Seminoles.
