… GABF announces team for three-game series

EIGHTEEN-year-old point guard Stanton Rose was named captain of Guyana’s senior men’s national team, who will wing out on Friday morning for their three-game series in a warm-up ahead of the June 24-30 Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships in neighbouring Suriname.

Rose, the leading point guard for national club champions Bounty Colts, will become the youngest player to ever captain the country’s national team when he leads Anthony Moe (Ravens), Shaine Webster (Colts), Timothy Thompson (Colts), Harold Adams (Royals), Orlan Glasgow (Royals), Chris Williams (Royals), Kevon Wiggins (USA), Dominic Vincente (Ravens), Nikkoli Smiths (Guardians), Travis Burnett (Kobras), Travis Belgrave (Eagles), and Domair Gladstone (Ravens) in Barbados.

Junior Hercules will be the head coach for the team as they look to make a clean sweep over their ‘Bajan’ counterparts from June 8 to 10, at the Sir Garfield Sports Complex. GABF president Nigel Hinds will manage the team with Dennis Clarke as his assistant.

At a press conference at Palm Court last evening, Hinds told the gathering of media and other basketball stakeholders, that the trip to Barbados is self-funded and the Federation saw the series necessary to help boost Guyana’s chances of the tournament in Suriname.
According to Hinds, the players selected were from a pool of the best players available locally. He added that the GABF has confidence in the players named (for Barbados) that they will give a good account of themselves in the ‘Land of the Flying Fish’.

The last time Guyana played in Barbados was at the 2000 CBC tournament which was then named the CARICOM basketball championship. With Lugard Mohan as captain, Guyana finished third at the tournament; their second third-place finish having also finished third in the inaugural CBC tournament held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

While the women would have won the tournament in 1996 (Trinidad and Tobago), the men’s best placing was second in 1994 tournament in Guyana.

At the CBC tournament in Suriname, the Guyanese Men are in Group A, with hosts and rivals Suriname, St Lucia, Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines while Group B comprises Barbados, Bermuda, Antigua & Barbuda, Haiti and Montserrat.