Archives June 2019

Tickets Sales Live For Basketball Festival

There’s a lot of excitement around the upcoming Youth Basketball Festival featuring Cayman, Port Arthur Texas, Bermuda and Trinidad & Tobago.

Fans are looking forward to seeing the Cayman’s Top Basketballers take on their neighbours in some intense but exciting basketball action.

Fans can get their tickets now via Event Pro and save! Click HERE

The tournament will be from July 18-20 and showcase 11 total games between boys and girls teams.

Prices are as follows:
CI $15.00 at the gate each day or:
CI $10.00 Per day via Event Pro (Download the app from the apple or android play stores).
CI $25.00 For an All Tournament Pass via Event Pro (Save nearly 50% off the gate value and 20% off the day pass value).

Get your tickets today!
Proceeds go towards Cayman’s National Youth Development Program.

Sol Blazers Win Again!

The Sol Blazers have again been crowned as the CIBA National Division 1 Men’s Champions for the 4th consecutive year.

Defending Champions Sol Blazers, swept IRG Astros 83 points to 78 points, in an off your seat, nail biting and thrilling final in the second game of the best of 3 series, to become once again the National Men’s Basketball Champions for 2019.

This will be Blazers’ 7th title and 4 straight Championship.

Sol Blazers:

· Samuel O’Garro – 28 pts, 8 rebs, 4 as, 2 sts

· Kevin Maxwell – 15 pts, 16 rebs, 1 bl

· Ben Jacobson – 14 pts, 14 rebs, 4 as, 2 sts

· Shaad O’Garro – 12 pts, 12 rebounds, 8 as, 4 sts, 4 bls

IRG Astros:

· Jerome Narcisse – 28 pts, 6 rebs, 3 as, 3 sts

· Davion Cotterell – 16 pts, 10 rebs, 6 as, 2 sts, 2 bls

· Jake Whittaker – 10 pts, 9 rebs, 1 as, 2 bls

Collins Signs with Cal State University

Cayman Islands National U19 Basketball player Justin Collins has received and accepted a Basketball Scholarship to attend NCAA Division II Cal State LA University located in Los Angeles.

Collins, a 6-foot, 2-inch guard, was named the Heritage League Most Valuable Player of the year as a senior as well as numerous awards throughout his career in Santa Clarita Christian High School in California and he helped lead the team to a state championship as a junior.

Justin was coached by Head Coach James Mosley and started at the guard position for 4 years.

The Bodden Town native announced his decision to attend California State University on social media.

Cal State LA’s head coach is Jim Saia, formerly head coach at Cal State San Marcos and Fresno Pacific.

Saia has 14 years of coaching experience at the NCAA Division I level, including seven years as the top assistant coach at UCLA and one year at USC, where he served as the interim head coach for most of the season.

Saia has helped more than 17 players onto rosters of National Basketball Association teams, including Baron Davis, Dan Gadzuric, Earl Watson, Jason Kapono, Nick Young and Matt Barnes.

Lady Warriors Dynasty wins 5th consecutive title

By Dionne Anglin

The Tribal Tattoo Lady Warriors have made history as the winningest team in Women’s basketball. After their 2-0 Series win over the Women of Valor Alumni, the Lady Warriors became the first team in women’s basketball history to win 5 consecutive titles and a total of 8 titles in the past 10 years.

The lady Warriors executed a very specific game plan to overcome the leagues scoring champion Khailan O’Connor and her supporting cast. The goal was to keep the ball out of O’Connor’s hands an apply stifling defense when she didn’t have the ball. O’Connor’s every move was met with help defense. On offense, the Lady Warriors attacked the WOV’s 1-1-3 defense with a 2-1-2 offense, making it difficult for the Women of Valor team to trap as planned.

In the 4th quarter of game 2, the Lady Warriors were able to finally pull away from their opponents to seal the game in emphatic fashion and add more hardware to their shelves. The only question now is: ill anyone be able to break up this dynasty before they all retire? Only time will tell and there are certainly some players that are eager to do so.