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Posted: Friday 18 December, 2015 at 3:00 PM

Harris Basketball League: Single point hands Inner City Ballers the championship

A clash of the giants: Inner City Ballers’ Ansel Raven and Fair Share’s Ray Liddie in an aerial tussle
By: Peter Ngunjiri, Press Release

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (December 17, 2015) -- Their opponents were coming for a kill and were dangerously closing in, but Inner City Ballers were saved the agony of having to go into the fourth game of the best of five finals against Fair Share by a single point on Wednesday night December 16, at the Molineux basketball court.

     

    Having beaten Fair Share by the narrowest of margins - 86-85 - in the third game in the best of five finals, Inner City Ballers are the new Harris Basketball League champions, reclaiming the title the last won in 2012 when the league was known as Constituency Seven Inner City Basketball League.
     
    The league which started in 2003 was the brainchild of the present League Commissioner Crace Lewis, and Samuel Caines. It immediately enlisted and got the support of the area parliamentary representative the Hon Dr Timothy Harris who agreed to be its sponsor, and has continued to be its sponsor to this day.
     
    The league got a makeover early this year following the election of the Hon Dr Timothy Harris as the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and was renamed the Harris Basketball League in his honour. New sponsors stepped in and the Molineux basketball court, home of the league, received a well-deserved refurbishment.
     
    The nail-biting and fast game on Wednesday which started at 8:45 pm saw a hamstrung Fair Share who had only five players for the entire first half going for an early kill, making the first score and underlined their determination to win the game by taking the lead at the end of the first quarter where the score-line was 18-15 in their favour. 
     
    The tide quickly turned against Fair Share in the second quarter as Inner City Ballers players could not fathom losing the game when they would have beaten them in the first and second games in the final of five, and this paid dividends as at the end of the first half, Inner City were leading by a margin of eleven, 44-33.   
     
    As the third quarter was being played, the sixth player for Fair Share came and after doing some warm-ups took to the court but was not there for long, and the margin of defeat increased to twelve points as Inner City led 64-52 at the end of the quarter.
     
    Like Popeye the Sailor Man who would suddenly gain strength after eating spinach, George Gaton and Ray Liddie of Fair Share came back in the fourth quarter fighting like wounded buffalos. The small but highly vociferous crowd was equally divided in their support for the two teams, and it is them who were disputing some of the referees’ calls through catcalls.
     
    It looked like Fair Share players were going to get a fair share of the game, and referees Ian Liburd, Nigel Burroughs and Troy Roberts had a difficult time controlling the spectators who would step into the court, and also some village dogs that at one time started fighting on the court as the game was going on. But at the end, it is Inner City Ballers who got the game’s fair share by the skin of their teeth after overcoming an over-energised Fair Share 86-85.
     
    Inner City Ballers Captain, Sylvester Whyte, said it was a well fought game which had quite a lot of back and forth down the court. “All in all we won the crown and we showed them who the real champions are,” said Whyte. “I want to commend my team, Inner City Ballers on a well fought game. We showed everyone that we could do it.”
     
    As for the losing team’s Captain, Samuel Caines, he explained that they did not have a full complement of players as some had received the mandatory five fouls. “It was a good game,” said Caines. “My players did exceedingly well in the circumstances, we only actually ran out gas and lost by one point. That is all I have to say. Some of our players had five fouls and when you are fouled out you cannot get back on.”
     
    Ansel Revan led the scoring for the new champions, scoring 33 points, and returning nine defensive rebounds, eight offensive rebounds, three steals, and two blocks. Others were Brian Morris (19 points, eight defensive rebounds, six offensive rebounds, three assists and one block); Sylvester Whyte (18 points, six defensive rebounds, five offensive rebounds, and three assists); Cameron Matthew (14 points, eight defensive rebounds, six offensive rebounds, three assists, and two blocks); and Kerry Lowry (two points and two steals).
     
    For the entire game, George Gaton top scored having made 36 points, and had four defensive rebounds, six offensive rebounds, six assists, and six steals. Others on his hardworking team were Ray Liddie (25 points, seven defensive rebounds, five offensive rebounds, five assists, and two steals); Colis Maloney (14 points, five defensive rebounds, four offensive rebounds, four assists, and five steals); and Roystein Bartlette (10 points, three defensive rebounds, three offensive rebounds, three assists, and two steals).
     
    Word from the League Commissioner Crace Lewis is that presentation of trophies will be done at a date to be announced shortly, after he would have consulted with the main sponsor, Prime Minister the Hon Dr Timothy Harris, and the other sponsors of this year’s Harris Basketball League.
     
     
     
     

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