Pacesetters and Victory Valley Royals force game three
Wortmanville Pacesetters
Wortmanville Pacesetters

One Guyana Basketball Premier League semis…

BOUNTY Colts and Wortmanville Pacesetters have both forced game three in their playoff series of the one Guyana Basketball League.
They both forced the final games after some impressive wins at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall on Tuesday evening.
Bounty Colts coming off a bruising series opening loss 78-65 bounced back in emphatic fashion to square the series with a 78-64-point win over Victory Valley Royals.
It was Royals that came out the blocks strong with a 4 point lead 18-14 at the end of the first quarter before Colts surged past in the second period to lead at the half 37-30.
That momentum would remain with Colts as they extended their advantage 62-46 at the end of the third before closing out the 14 points victory 78-64.
At the helm for colts was veteran point guard Shelroy Thomas who dropped 24 points and Quacey Shortt contributing 18 points in the double digit win.
Vibert Benjamin 16 and Harold Adams 15 led Royals in the loss.
In the other clash of the night, Pacesetters kept their best of three series alive by winning game two 80-58.
Pacesetters clashed with defending champions Ravens and pulled out all the stops to the decider.
Pacesetters was the more aggressive of the two sides as they led from start to finish leading 16-8 in the first quarter, 39-28 in the second and 54-42 in the third before completing the win by 22 points.
Troy David led pacesetters with 14 buckets while support came from Tariq Cave and Wilman Delgado with 12 points each.
The league is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport, and National Sports Commission.
The League’s regular season featured 22 teams evenly split in the Jaguars and Harpy Eagles conference drawn from all across the country battling for bragging rights, a million dollars and the coveted national club league trophy.

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