The Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) organisation has donated the winners’ trophy and $100,000 for staging of the Linden Regional Conference Schools Basketball Championships, which bounce off this afternoon (Friday) at the Mackenzie High School hard court in Retrieve, Linden.
Chris Bowman handing over cheque and trophy to LABA’s Joseph Chapman
Having secured participation from some six schools across Linden, the championships will see Mackenzie High and Linden Foundation Secondary squaring off in game one, to be played from 14.00hrs.
The other came will see Linden Technical Institute coming up against Wisburg Secondary School from 16.00hrs.
YBG Director Chris Bowman has said the YBG will, at month’s end, be hosting the National Basketball Festival, which involves teams from across Guyana. He made the donation of the cheque and trophy to the Linden Amateur Basketball Association Secretary, Joseph Chapman, on Wednesday in Georgetown.
In handing over the money to assist in running of the tournament, Bowman said: “Looking back at the partnership between YBG and LABA, we are happy once again to have this arrangement with LABA. Ideally, that should be the arrangement, and should be for all the associations.”
He pointed out that Berbice has Regional Coordinators, but, ideally, “we should have this arrangement with the elected officers in the sub associations throughout these processes. I think this is the model for the way forward and how we qualify teams for the national championships.”
The tournament continues tomorrow (Saturday) with three more matches being held at the same venue. In the first game, being played from 13.00hrs, Mackenzie High will again be in action, this time against Wisburg Secondary; while, from 14.30hrs, New Silvercity Secondary will face Linden Technical Institute; and from 16.00hrs, Christianburg Wismar secondary will take on Linden Foundation Secondary.
