Eagles hammer Pacesetters, Colts school UG Trojans

GABA League of Champions…

Eagles rebounded from a horrendous run on Tuesday to hammer Pacesetter whose bad pitch continues in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) 2017 League of Champions while the University of Guyana (UG) Trojans were thought a lesson at the hands of a red hot Bounty Colts at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue on Thursday.

In the opening game of the night, the relatively small crowd, Colts were a force to be reckoned with as Jamal Gilkes scored a whopping 23 points that contributed to the 64-46 victory. UG struggled in the opening quarter of the match as they scrapped two points while Colts had romped to 19. Colts then had a 20 point second period compared to 16 from UG to have the score 39-18 by the half way mark.

The second half belonged to UG as they won both quarters, however it was only marginally, outscoring Colts 14-15 and 11-13 in the third and final quarters respectively. Sherland Gilles had a good outing netting 13 points while Jonathon Browne contributed with 11 points but was not enough to avoid defeat.

On the other side of the night, Pacesetters’ horrid run continued as they fell victim to a highflying Eagles team. Eagles stated a slow game that seemed to be an early night for them and signal another defeat as they score just five points with Pacesetters looking to break the jinx, producing a 17 point first period.

The tables then turned in the second period as it was Pacesetters being outscored 6-20 to have the match too close to call by half time sitting in favour of Eagles 23-25.

Eagles continued to build on the energies of the second quarter to win the third quarter 16-21 and blow out Pacesetters in the last quarter 7-26 to end the match 46-72 by the final buzzer.

Patrice Agrippa (16 points), Derroll Williams (14 points) and Captain Travis Belgrave (13 points) were the ultimate destroyers for Eagles.

The action resumes at the same venue on Sunday.