After a convincing run, Supreme Dub Ballers have won the right to represent Guyana at the 2018 International Basketball Foundation Antilles 3X3 U-18 Championships in St. Marteen which is slated for May.
The female team of Annalisa Barclay, Lydia Roberts, Roschelle Campbell and Soffiya Greene have also qualified for the championships
Ballers, a team which comprised of this year’s South American Youth Games 3X3, took down Royals 15-11 in the final of the qualifying tournament organised by the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation last Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
All of their players contributed to the victory with Nigel Bowen dropping seven points, while Akeem Crandon scored four. Akeem Bowen and Shamar France scored two points each.
On the other side, Kobe Tappin dropped eight of Royals 11 points in the final, while Immanuel Larose scored the remainder. Crandon, who was the team’s captain, won Most Valuable Player (MVP) honours.
Meanwhile, the female team of Annalisa Barclay, Lydia Roberts, Roschelle Campbell and Soffiya Greene won on the female side with Barclay dropping in six points.
The trials which catered for players born January 1, 2000 or after saw a total of fifteen teams from which 52 players competed which shows a high level of interest for the shortened form of the game.
At the 2016 championships held in St Lucia, the likes of Jamal Gilkes, Jonathan Mangra, Stanton Rose and Timothy Thompson made history by reaching the final against Martinique only to suffer their only lost 8-9.
Rose fell short of the MVP by virtue of Guyana losing the Finals by one point in the last nine seconds of the game.
On their path to the final Guyana would have defeated the likes of Barbados, Curacao, Antigua & Barbuda, Saint Vincent, Aruba and Guadeloupe.
