Guyana’s horrid showing at the 2015 Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championship was capped by another loss yesterday when Darcel Harris’ men went down 61 – 89 to the Cayman Islands.

It was their fifth loss in as many games at the championship which is being played in the British Virgin Island (BVI).

Guyana finished fifth at the tournament last year and had high hopes of bettering their performance, but it was a different story when the championship got into action.

After an 80 – 60 lost to Antigua and Barbuda, followed by an 89 – 69 defeat to the Bahamas, Guyana also went down to Bermuda (74 – 65) and suffered a heavy defeat to neighbouring Suriname 81 – 48.

Yesterday’s game against the Cayman Islands was suppose to be one of redemption, but with the Caymanians also chasing their first win in the Championship, it meant that the Guyanese had to come out guns blazing.

Guyana tailed 18 – 10 after the end of the first quarter and 46 – 24 at half time. By the end of the penultimate period the scoreboard read 66 – 35 in favour of Cayman Islands as Guyana couldn’t keep up with the pace of the game.

Ryan Gullen had a team high 17 points from 8 – 15 shooting, while grabbing seven rebounds and two block shots.

Keron McKenzie shot his way to 12 points while point guards Travis Burnett (10 rebounds) and Shelroy Thomas both had ten points.

Cayman Islands Guard Jorge Ebanks led all scorers with 24 points, followed by Samuel Ogaro (20 points, eight rebounds) and Davion Cotterell 18 points, seven rebounds.

The tournament wraps up today and the Guyanese team is expected to return home tomorrow.