PC, Kwakwani Secondary, Berbice High, Bishops’ High School and QC book semi-final spots

Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) continued its much-anticipated 17th National Schools Basketball Festival with the semi-finals on July 6 at the National Gymnasium with President’s College A, Kwakwani U18 Boys and Girls, Berbice High, Bishops’ High School and Queen’s College U14 booking their place in the finals.
In the first encounter of the day, the President’s College Female A team smashed the defences of the President’s College Female B team with a scoreline of 16-7. Onehsa Trotman and Ronaya Grant led the way for the PC A team with six points each.

Berbice High achieved a significant margin of victory; their tenacity in offence enabling them to smash the defences of St Rose’s High School and leave the scoreboard reading 34-30 . Jeremy Chung’s 15 points proved important for Berbice as Avion Kesney scored 18 points for St Rose’s High School.
In the second Boys’ U14 semi-final match-up, Queen’s College showed their ability to counter to the hoops against Bishops’ High School and secured their tickets to the final, with the scoreline reading 28-19. Jonathon Gomes scored 12 points for Queen’s College, while Kenial Pickeng scored 12 points for Bishops’ High School.
The schools From Region 10 locked horns, but it was defending champions Kwakwani Secondary who got the victory over the Linden Technical Institute with the scoreline reading 54-26. Roshane Thomas led the Kwakwani outfit’s offence with 13 points and Stephen George led the Linden outfit with 13 points.

In a comment to Guyana Times Sport, Kwakwani Secondary Captain Cordel Hoyte divulged the key elements of their success.
“Feeling good. I feel that we can go to the finals and do the same again with the same energy, just play together as a team and just keep up the hard work. It was a normal thing once we played together and not nothing difficult,” Hoyte said.
The Bishops’ U18 Team with a 10-point margin smashed the defences of the St Stanislaus College with a scoreline of 36-26 as Carmelo Man-Son-Hing led the way for Bishops’ with 21 points.
Man-Son-Hing also spoke to this publication and expounded the key elements needed to secure the title.
“It was a comfortable win, compared to the finals of the regionals; like we really came out, we did our part to play much more together and so, we executed well and were successful. Well, we know the challenges are high; we know what we got to do – a much faster team, a much physical team so we just gotta adapt and play together again and we should be good.”
The finals of the National Schools Basketball Festival were contested on Sunday and details will be in tomorrow’s edition of the newspaper.