Eagles; Pacesetter keep top spots as mid-season break starts

AS the One Guyana Basketball League begins its mid-season break, the 22 teams participating will be looking to regroup after an intense first half.
The club basketball championship is being played in Linden at the Retrieve Hard Courts and in Georgetown at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

After a host of matches, last year’s most prolific outfit Stabroek Eagles are still on top of the points table in the Jaguars Conference with four wins in as much outings.
However, Nets and University of Guyana Trojans have made up ground and are also on four wins each.
Nets have played five games and registered a loss while Trojans have two losses in six outings.

Over in the Harpy Eagles Conference, Pacesetters has been this year’s tournament hot team with five victories in five outings and have played even better than the stats suggest, as they have hammered teams by huge margins over the course of the first half of the league.

Linden’s Block 22 Flames are second on the Harpy Eagles conference with four wins and a loss in five matches while defending champions North Ruimveldt Ravens are third with three wins in four with a loss.

On the individual side Eagles Zion Gray, a phenomenal multi discipline athlete with great athleticism, has produced for top side Eagles, bagging a combined 80 points in their five outings so far this season.

The next best is Delroy Critchlow who has made 54 points for Plaisance Guardians despite them languishing 8th in the Jaguars conference.

Dennis Niles also played well for Nets who are holding their own in the jaguar’s conference, Niles is also leading the stat sheet in 3-pointer this season ahead of UG’s Kadeem Peterkin and Ravens Shamar Huntley.

On the defensive end, Eagles show their versatility as a unit with their skipper Travis Belgrave leading in defensive rebounds with 31 with UG’s Jabari Joseph second on 28.
Belgrave has proved outstanding for his Eagle sides leading also in steals with 19 and assists with 15 in these clashes so far.

Guardian’s Nduka Horatio leads offensive rebounds with 37 while his teammate Delroy Critchlow has emerged a good utility player to be second on the offensive rebound list and third on the defensive rebound list.

The next round of matches is set for March 1 and 2 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.