Eagles battle Ravens; Untouchables oppose Royals

FOUR top club basketball sides will this evening take to the basketball hard court at the National Gymnasium seeking to earn this place in the finals of the Guyana Basketball Federation (GBF) Elite 16 knock-out tournament.

Stabroek Eagles are set to duel it out with North Ruimveldt Ravens and Kwakwani Untouchables will clash with Victory Valley Royals.
In the last quarter final match-up Kwakwani Untouchables and Victory Valley Royals stormed their way into the semis.
Royals was the biggest winners as they downed University of Guyana Trojans 91-75.

It was an up and own affair as the UG Trojans showed fight but were ultimately overpowered by Linden’s Victory Valley Royals side.
Trojans started well to lead by 9 points 29-26 after the first period but after Royals acclimatised to the playing conditions they never fell behind again.

Led by Yannick Tappin with 26 points Royals took the lead in the second period to go into the half 47-45 before extending that at the end of the third 69-52.
Veteran national player Harold Adams was also fabulous for Royals with a game high 29 points as they started to impose their will on Trojans.

Trojans’ Kadeem Peterkin 15 points and Jether Harris with 20 points tried to pull back the tide with some good offensive plays but could not stop the Royals locomotive as they powered their way to a 16 points victory 91-75.

Meanwhile the Kwakwani Untouchable stopped Pacesetters narrowly 69-66.
The Pacesetters led for all but one quarter as Untouchables came from behind to pull off a thriller.

Pacesetters led at the end of the first period 24-17 and continued that lead into the half 37-31 as Untouchables failed to find their rhythm.
The third period saw more of the same as Troy David’s 18 points, Jaleel Duke with 11 and Joslyn Crawford 14 points played well offensively to maintain their lead at the end of the third period by 9 points 52-43.

It was the fourth quarter that proved decisive as Kwakwani overturned the lead as rising basketball star Kimol Grimmond showed up with an awesome 22 points.
He put in some impressive minutes along with his teammate Kelon Phillips as they took the game away in a last-minute tussle to win it by 3 points 69-66.

The other semifinal was decided after Eagles grounded Bounty colts 79-74 and Ravens defeated Kobras 67-32 over the weekend.