By Calvin Chapman

The National Gymnasium’s Basketball Court on Mandela Avenue was a hive of activity last Sunday when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) hosted another round of the One-Guyana Basketball Premier League in which Nets, Kwakwani Untouchables and Pacesetters were the latest winners.
Nets got past Pepsi Sonics 72-47 with Travis Stewart leading the way for the winners with a game-high 21 points. Junior Lovell scored 14 points for Sonics in the losing effort.
In the second match on Sunday, Captain Domair Gladstone led from the front with 23 points for Kwakwani Untouchables in their 67-60 win over Ravens. Gladstone was supported well by National Captain Stanton Rose with 13 points. Former National Captain and current Ravens Captain; Dominic Vincent netted 20 points for his team but couldn’t get them over the line.
The feature match of the night resulted in 7-point win for Pacesetters against Mambas. The 57-44 win for Pacesetters was orchestrated by Zion Gray with 19 points supported by Troy David with 16 points. Skipper Samuel Thompson (17 points) was the only player from Mambas to make it into double figure points.
The league has commenced its one-month break and will resume on October 7th at the same venue with an anticipated triple header from 18:30hrs when Pepsi Sonics will bounce with Bounty Colts. Following at 20:30hrs, Kobras will play D-Up before the feature match of the night where Plaisance Guardians will match skills with Kwakwani Untouchables at 22:30hrs.
This league has 14 teams grouped into the Harpy Eagle Conference and the Jaguar Conference.
Teams from the Jaguar and Harpy Eagle Conferences will face each other twice within their respective groups. The top four teams will progress to the playoffs, where the first-ranked team will compete against the fourth-ranked team, and the second-ranked team will take on the third-ranked team. The victors of these playoff matches will move on to the Conference Finals, where they will engage in a best-of-three series to determine the finalists for the National Championship.

The championship-winning team will receive a prize of $1 million, along with trophies, while the runners-up will be awarded $500,000 along with trophies. The successful execution of this tournament has been made possible through sponsorships from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, G-Boats Guyana, National Sports Commission and Georgetown Basketball Federation.