Sports Monday update with James Adderley

Good Evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Despite the threat of Tropical Storm Alex, the Interoffice Basketball League launched the 2010 season inside the Civic Center Friday night. The opening match found last year’s runner-up Atlantic Bank facing First Caribbean Bank/ Quan trading, a team they had eliminated to arrive at the finals. It seems like Andrew Head Staine, Atlantic Bank’s leading scorer picks up where he left off last year as he receives the long pass and goes glass to get two points and would get a three the old fashion way. At the other end the big man for First Caribbean/ Quan Trading , Shamir Martinez hits the short range jumper for two of his fourteen game points at the end of the first quarter we’re tied at thirteen a piece. In the second, Andrew Staine comes up with the steal and heads all the way to the uncontested deuce; head would lead his team with fifteen points. Atlantic Bank seems in control when Darwin Elijio strikes for three.

In the third quarter Andrew Staine hands Jacob Leslie a rejection slip that certainly wakes up this baller. Meanwhile, at the other end Darwin Elijio hits another three for Atlantic Bank. Dawgy would finish with thirteen points. Of course folks, here is the baddest move of the night. Staine goes behind the back and hits the second hand no look reverse layup. We’re in the fourth quarter; when Jacob Leslie has a reverse of his own so he displays it for two of his game high twenty-points for First Caribbean/ Quan Trading.  Andrew Staine comes right back with a two for Atlantic Bank, who now find themselves down by four.  Folks tonight Jacob Leslie wins the head on clash with head Staine and here he attacks the Atlantic Bank on the baseline for two and would make it three the hard way. If you don’t believe, watch him put the dagger into Atlantic Bank with this big three points in the money time.  First Caribbean/ Quan Trading mashes Atlantic Bank 49-42, in this year’s Interoffice Basketball opener.

In other results from over the weekend, defending Interoffice champion Belize City Council got off to a roaring start with a 54-46 bashing of Port of Belize.       Youth for the Future shook up Roe Group companies 45-40. Alamilla/ Cellular Plus almost doubled Belize Healthcare Partners 65-34 and Tuff Enuff Tours rolled over Belize Electricity 60-48. Tonight’s schedule at the Civic finds Guardian Housing Department against Belize Healthcare/ Central Cable Vision. Youth for the future will take on the Customs Department and Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital will go up against the National Fire Service.

We also take this time to salute our National Basketball team as they get ready for two warm up matches, that’s Thursday and Friday, against the Venezuelan National Team inside the Civic Center. They travel to the Dominican Republic on Saturday, where they will begin to play in the Centro Basket on Monday against Trinidad and Tobago so stay tuned and we want to say welcome to our boy, Milton Palacio, who arrived today to join the team.

In other Basketball news the National U-15 Male basketball team beat Delfinese of Chetumal at the Palacio de Deportes 59-30 with fourteen points from Kyle Middleton and ten from Brian White.

Meanwhile, on the cycling scene, the BCA has re-scheduled the National Road Championships for this weekend. Saturday brings up the Time Trial, while Sunday brings up the 118 mile role race will take center stage, it begins at Silk Grass in the Stann Creek District and finishes at the Belize Bank on the Northern highway.

Hey Folks, that’s our show for today, we invite you back same time same place next week. Jah over all! I’m James Adderley”