www.bviolympics.com Basketball In foul trouble before the half, Parillon returned to the game with four minutes and 34 seconds left then tried to make his biggest shots of the league against his old squad with whom he has been a 3-peat champion before exiting for the Guns. His missed free throws ended the Guns’ 7-3 run as they were woeful at the line only making 10 of their 17 attempt or 58%, while Young Legs were 74% at 20 of 27 at the line. Young Legs outscored the Guns, 42-34 in the in the second and third quarters, to take a 52-51 lead to start the fourth stanza, then opened up an eight point lead before the Guns came back to tie the game. “Congratulations to the Guns, AKA the paper team, they are really good and I have a lot of trouble with them,” Young Legs’ coach Brian “Bash” Brewley said. “When I made that run early in the fourth quarter, I thought we would have taken them out of the game but they played hard defense and they got right back into it.” Jason Edwin and Lyle Duggins were Young Legs’ top scorers with 17 points each and Edwin pulled another 10 boards. Kennedy Bass and Trevor “West” Stevens chipped in 11 and 10 points each, with eight and seven rebounds respectively. Calvert White led the Guns’ scores with 18 points and five assists. Randy “Chino” George followed up with 16 and Houston Penn narrowly missed a double double with 12 points and nine rebounds. In his first game as Guns’ coach since Sports Minister Andrew Fahie resigned a week ago, Derwin Scatliffe said he might have made a few bad subs. “But, honestly and truly, the referee really took the players out of the game mentally, because the defense they were supposed to be playing they couldn’t play because the referees wouldn’t give them any calls,” he noted. “There were players, assistant coaches from the other team who said they don’t’ like how they won the game, because the referee called against us.” Defending champs Virgin Gorda Jr. Mystics opened with a 22-9 run, led 40-25 at the half, en route to a runaway, 75-52, triumph over Full Force. Jessie Demming and Coy Dore had 14 and 10 points each. Jerrick Maduro was Full Force’s top scorer with 21 points and 12 rebounds. Kishawn Pope added 14 with five steals and five rebounds. David Susana and Leando Creque combined for 22 of Ghetto Mix’s 35 fourth quarter points, lifting them to an 88-84, victory over Top Shottas, after trailing 64-53, at the end of the third quarter. Susana and Woods had 23 and 18 points respectively. Sean Woods narrowly missed a double with 16 points and nine rebounds. Leslee Smith’s 23 points and 16 rebound double double, led Top Shottas scores. Ephraim Gordon added 16 and Tyrone Donovan, 14. © Copyright 2007 BVI Olympic Committee |
