Eagles soar over Bounty Colts to stay undefeated

EAGLES Basketball Club led by national player Travis Belgrave took first blood on Saturday in their best of three playoff Jaguars Conference Finals. Eagles who topped their conference at the end of the regular season have been flawless in the inaugural league.
In the ongoing playoff they have swept the University of Guyana Trojans in their 3-game series to face off with Bounty Colts in the Jaguar Conference Finals.

In the first match-up of the series on Saturday Eagles soared with a 73-64 win to go 1-up in the series.
It seemed like a two man contest for most of the contest as Eagles leading scorer Travis Belgrave showed no signs of letting up with a strong 30 points showing taking on fellow national player and Colts point guard Shelroy Thomas.

The first quarter saw the side evenly matched with a point separating the teams, 20-19 at the end of the quarter.
The second period before the break proved another ball game as Eagles stepped on the pedal outsourcing Colts 18-7 to lead by 10 points 37-27 at the half.

A strong third quarter showing propelled by Colts young gun Carmelo Man-Soon-Hing supported his skipper Shelroy Thomas with 9 points. Colt’s Thomas hit a game high 37 points in vain trying to pull back the game, as they out-scored Eagles 16-7 in the third to reduce the deficit to a point.

However, the Eagles, who also had solid contributions from Michael Richards and Sherland Gillis, stepped on the gas as they closed it out in the last quarter for the 9 points victory 73-64.
Meanwhile in the Harpy Eagles Conference Final between Dynas Ravens and Kwakwani Untouchables, the latter rebounded.
Untouchables after an average showing in the series opener where they went down 70-59 found another gear to keep their series alive with a 79-57point’s victory on Saturday.

They led all four quarters of play, in the first period they led 16-7 before almost doubling the lead heading into the break 45-24.
Jamal Gilkes 18 points and Domair Gladstone 12 points were pivotal in their teams display as they pulled away further in their third 68-41 to dominate the contest.
Kwakwani won by 22 points to force a game 3 as both seek a berth in the Inaugural One Guyana Playoff Finals

The finals will pit the winner of both the Jaguars and Harpy Eagles conferences battling it out for top honours. The tournament which bounced off in august 2023 sees 2 million up for grabs with a million for the winner and half a million for second place.
The league is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport, G-boat Guyana and the National Sport Commission.