BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, December 30, 2017 (PLP PR Media Inc.) -- Sponsor of the recently concluded Constituency Number Seven Dr the Hon Timothy Harris Domino League, Prime Minister of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, is promising domino lovers in the Federation a more dynamic 23rd edition of the league in 2018.
Dr Harris, who is also the Area Parliamentary Representative for Constituency St. Christopher Seven, made the comments at the prize giving ceremony held on Wednesday December 27 at the Edgar Gilbert Sporting Complex pavilion in Molineux to mark the end of the 22nd edition of the longest running domino league in the region.
Thanking the players for their dedication to the game even as they faced temporary interruptions caused by two hurricanes in the year, he told them that next year (2018) he was looking forward to an even better league than it was in 2017.
He singled out for mention some of the players who have been involved in the 22 years including the Thomas’s family of Lodge, Calvin Farrell who is a founding father and one of the founding players of the league and the current league coordinator, Winston Morris, and the late Spencer Duggins who was represented by his daughter Sandra Duggins.
While a number of women had in the 22-year history of the league shown an interest and even participated as players, Dr Harris made a special mention of Octavia Huggins of Sylver’s Domino Club and who is the only woman captain, and player Valencia Alexander of Beers Domino Club, for their exceptional showing this year.
“The 22 years are very special years in the lives of this constituency and the people who are here,” noted the Prime Minister, who is also the National Political Leader of the Peoples Labour Party (PLP), one of the three parties in the ruling Team Unity Administration.
“I want to say thank you to those who came up with the idea of the league and approached me way back then to become involved with it. It is a journey which we have embarked together and I would say for me I never look back with regret. Each year it has been a special blessing and I would want to continue to serve and to improve upon the league.”
Fourteen teams took part in this year’s league: Lodge, Unity, Beers, Saddlers, Sylver’s, Tabernacle, Molineux, Mansion Upsetters, Unstoppable, Christchurch, Giants, Guinness, Small Corner, and Parsons. While twelve of the teams are from Constituency Number Seven, two teams, Saddlers and Parsons are from Constituency Number Six.
“I want to congratulate the fourteen teams that participated this year,” said the sponsor of the league. “This is a very remarkable achievement, and my only wish is that next year we can bring Phillips Village more fully into the league.”
In conclusion, Dr Harris said: “I think that we are accomplishing what we would want to achieve, getting people together, having people enjoy themselves, and so for all of you the players and all of your fans, I say thank you from the bottom of my heart and I look forward for an even more successful 2018 of the Constituency Seven Domino League.”
According to the league organiser, Calvin Farrell, after the two rounds of the round-robin stage where all the teams played each other twice, Lodge Domino Club emerged the winner with 128 points, followed by the defending champions Unity with 107 points.
Others in order were Saddlers 99, Beers 97, Sylver’s 90, Tabernacle 90, Molineux 80, Unstoppable 78, Mansion Upsetters 74, Christchurch 70, Giants 50, Guinness 46, Small Corner 46, and Parsons 30.
At the semi-finals stage, defending champions Unity and former champions Lodge moved to the finals where Lodge reclaimed the title by winning two of the three final games against Unity. In the third and fourth place play off, Beers overcame Saddlers.
As for the best of the rest, after a very competitive knock out stage Christchurch faced Unstoppable in the final. At that critical stage Unstoppable Domino Club lived to its name and beat Christchurch 13-9 to clinch ‘the best of the rest’ title.
The league coordinator noted that this year was the first time that teams were outfitted with uniforms, and he thanked the league sponsor Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris for agreeing to the material that the players chose. He also thanked the referees who did an excellent job at the semi-final and final stages of the league, and also thanked the captains for sticking to the rules of the game which saw less argument among the players.
“Next year we plan to restructure the league,” concluded League Coordinator Farrell. “So I am looking forward for volunteers to come on board early in the year because we have to start a little early next. When I say early it will be probably early in July so we cannot reach this far in December.”
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