Combermere, BCC show their skills as U19 basketball opens

The National Sports Council U19 Basketball Competition held their opening ceremony on Tuesday evening at the Wildey Gymnasium. Long standing sponsors Co-Operators General Insurance are once again on board as they play a pivotal role in assisting young student athletes through the sport of basketball.

The tournament got underway with an exciting skills challenge along with a shooting competition, which saw representatives from the participating schools take the court to display their talents.

In the skills challenge, Queens College (QC) headed into the finals as the team to beat after recording the fastest time in the preliminary rounds, but Combermere saved their best for last as their trio of Seth Playter, Seraph Howard, and Namari Skeete clocked a time of 1:26 to cause the upset and bring trophy to Waterford.

The other two schools to advance to the finals were Harrison College and Alexandra.

Barbados Community College (BCC) and Deighton Griffith battled down to the last shot in the finals of the Shooting Competition. Each team had a minute to score as many points as possible from various spots on the court. BCC’s duo of Xavier Andre and Taj Greenidge recorded the most points in the preliminaries and the finals as their shooting ability stood above the rest on the evening.

13 schools are set to take part in the competition with defending champions Harrison College (HC) fielding two teams, A and B.

Teams will be placed in two zones with games scheduled to begin from Monday October 14th with a start time of 3pm. Zone B will feature powerhouse QC along with 2022 champions BCC while HC A will be heavily favoured to top Zone A.

Schedule for the first week of games:

(home teams mentioned first)

• Monday 14th (Zone B)
• Deighton Griffith vs Queens College
• HCB vs Graydon Sealy
• BCC vs St Michael Schol

• Tuesday 15th (Zone A)
• St George Sec vs HCA
• Grantley Adams vs Combermere
• Lodge vs Alexandra

• Wednesday 16th (Zone B)
• Graydon Sealy vs Queens College
• St Michael School vs HCB
• Coleridge & Parry vs BCC

• Thursday 17th (Zone A)
• Combermere vs Alexandra
• Foundation vs Lodge
• Grantley Adams vs St George Sec

(ZM)