National championships underway in Grand Bahama

Sat, Apr 13th 2013, 10:29 AM

Only six male teams are competing in the Bahamas Basketball Federation (BBF) National Round Robin tournament, currently going on in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
This is the first year no female squads are participating in the annual tournament. President Charles Rubins apologized for not having female teams at the national event which crowns the top team with the Commonwealth title.
"There were some problems in Nassau," he said. "The girls were not able to come so we implemented a second division to fill the void. I am a little disappointed that we don't have them here. We really want to see the growth with that so I must take the blame on some of that. I didn't open it up like I did last year where we had teams play in exhibition games, which the crowd really enjoyed.
"It is about time Grand Bahama see the caliber of players that we have in Nassau, especially on the female's side. I am really disappointed in that and I will take the blame for that."
The four teams playing in Division I are New Providence, Grand Bahama, Abaco and Bimini. Grand Bahama and Andros are in the two divisions. So far, Grand Bahama B has picked up a win over Andros B, 96-50. Top scorers in that game were Antoine Bevans and Deondre Jones with 16 points each, and Keno Russell chipped in with 14 points.
Leading the way for Andros was Calsey Fowler with 12 points, Richard Miller added 11 points and Gary Gibson 10 points.
Abaco A got past Bimini A 62-38 and New Providence defeated Grand Bahama 62-59.
"Things are going very well," said Rubins. "The fans' participation is great, the games are going good, even though we had one or two blowouts. The only reason why we had blowouts was because some of the teams came in late and most of them weren't ready. I think things will pick up as the tournament continues. I expect a better showing from Bimini and Andros."
Grand Bahama and Bimini will take to the court today at 1 p.m., followed by New Providence and Abaco at 2:30 p.m.

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