Month: September 2022

‘Jazz’ says he’ll suit up for Great Britain

Chisholm Jr gives update on injury

Miami Marlins' Jazz Chisholm Jr. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Miami Marlins’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

As of Friday, September 23, 2022

#By RENALDO DORSETT

#Tribune Sports Reporter

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#Great Britain baseball has an opportunity to field its most talented roster of all time when it participates in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

#Jasrado “Jazz” Chisholm Jr confirmed his plans to return to the international stage and join Team Great Britain for the second time in his career next March when the best national programmes compete in the fifth edition of the event.

#The Miami Marlins All- Star infielder addressed future national team prospects and his injury status when he joined the Bally Sports broadcast team as the Marlins hosted the Chicago Cubs Wednesday night at loanDepot Park in Miami, Florida.

#“It’s going to be sick for me,” Chisholm said, “because you’re out there and you never really get a chance to ever play with anybody from your hometown or even family members at that. I’m about to get to experience it all.”

#Chisholm was one of nine Bahamians on the roster for Great Britain in the 2017 WBC Qualifiers in Brooklyn, New York.

#He had his best game of the qualifier when he finished 3-5, drove in an RBI, scored a run and stole two bases in a 14-0 win over Pakistan. Great Britain eventually suffered a 9-1 loss to Israel in the qualifying game.

#Great Britain recently qualified for the WBC, for the first time in programme history, with its undefeated performance at last week’s qualifier in Regensburg, Germany.

#The tournament will be hosted March 8-21 across several venues. Pool A will compete at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taichung, Taiwan, Pool B and tournament quarterfinals will take place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, Pool C at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, and finally Pool D, quarterfinals, semifinals and championship will take place at Chisholm’s home stadium – loanDepot Park.

#Great Britain will compete in Pool A against Chinese Taipei, Netherlands, Cuba and Italy.

#After a three-year gap between the first two installments of the tournament, plans were made for the World Baseball Classic to be repeated every four years following the 2009 event. The third installment of the Classic was held in 2013, and the fourth was held in 2017. The fifth, originally scheduled for 2021, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

#The tournament is being expanded from 16 to 20 national teams, with all teams that participated in the 2017 edition automatically qualifying, plus four additional spots.

#Sixteen teams had already secured a berth in the 2021 WBC – Australia, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States and Venezuela.

#Great Britain and the Czech Republic earned two of the most recent tournament berths following their success at the Pool A qualifier in Germany.

#The final two teams in the field will be the winners out of the Pool B qualifier, September 30 to October 5 in Panama City.

#Chisholm’s last appearance on the field in a Marlins uniform was June 28. He originally suffered the back injury early in the season on a slide and eventually re-aggravated the injury in late June, which forced him out of the lineup.

#Due to a back strain, Chisholm has been on the injured list since June 29. He underwent a CT scan on July 21 that revealed a stress fracture in his lower back. The Marlins officially ruled him out of a return for the remainder of the season. Chisholm also revealed that he played this season with a torn meniscus which he suffered prior to the season.

#MLB.com reported that Marlins manager Don Mattingly and general manager Kim Ng announced that Chisholm Jr would not return from the injured list for the remainder of the 2022 campaign. He recently underwent surgery to repair the torn meniscus but has already said that he is walking under his own power without the use of crutches.

#“We went and got an MRI. It came back that I tore my meniscus. I asked the doctor, ‘Hey, can I play this season? Because I feel like I’m really gonna tear it up this season. So can I play?’ And he was like, ‘You can but you’re gonna be dealing with a lot of swelling every day and all that stuff.’ I was like, ‘I’ll just take care of that and that’d be fine.’ And going on, I ended up playing the whole season and just planned to get the surgery after the season,” Chisholm said.

#“I went through a lot of swelling and a lot of changing my mind in the middle of stolen bases, kind of slide in different ways. Most of the times I got thrown out was because of my knee and how I was getting into the bag.”

#Chisholm is the first-ever Bahamian-born MLB All-Star.

#Through 60 games he had a .254 average with 14 home runs, 54 hits, 45 RBI, 12 stolen bases, and scored 39 runs.

#“We could probably push Jazz to be able to come back and DH or something. I think the risk/reward on that — he has a stress fracture in his back. It’s something you could say, ‘Well, it’s healed, but is it all the way?’ It just doesn’t seem to be worth it,” Mattingly told MLB.com.

#“I think Jazz would like to play, he would like to have played. I think the organisation basically made that decision for him, that we were going to just let this thing go, keep strengthening all year long, so we know going into the winter that he’s healthy, he’s ready, he’s doing everything, he feels great. So again, I think an organisational decision.”

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Heat returning to The Bahamas


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NBA team set to host training camp at Baha Mar next week

Sheldon LongleySend an emailSeptember 22, 2022 336 2 minute readFacebookTwitterLinkedInShare via Email

 The Miami Heat are returning to The Bahamas for training camp. The camp is set for September 27 to October 1, at Baha Mar.

The Miami Heat has announced that they will be returning to The Bahamas to host training camp, set for Tuesday September 27 to Saturday October 1, at the Baha Mar resort. The training camp is presented by Baptist Health.

It is the third time in a decade that the Heat will make the 30-minute flight to The Bahamas for their training camp. They were last in The Bahamas in 2016, and before that, they came in 2013. Several Heat players including Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry have made trips to The Bahamas to work out and also bond before the 2021-2022 playoffs got underway.

“We are honored to be chosen as the host destination for the Miami Heat’s 2022 Training Camp and thrilled to be entering a multi-year partnership with the three-time NBA Champions,” said Graeme Davis, president of Baha Mar.

This trip will come on the heels of the team’s media day, set for Monday September 26 inside their home arena, the FTX Arena.

According to the Heat’s official release, the team will have two practices per day, Tuesday to Friday. After the first practice each day, the team will be available to the media. The training camp is closed to the public.

On the Saturday of the camp, the team will conclude its trip to The Bahamas with one final practice session that will be open to invited guests and young players under the wing of the Bahamas Basketball 

Federation (BBF).

The previous two training camps that were held by the Heat in The Bahamas were done at Atlantis, Paradise Island. There will be about 20 players who will make the trek to The Bahamas, including Butler, Lowry and Bam Adebayo. The only player on the roster who has been to the first two training camps in The Bahamas is veteran Udonis Haslem who is entering his 20th season in the league – all with the Heat who drafted him in 2002.

“I enjoy the people. I enjoy the culture, the food. Everybody’s nice. The weather is great. There are a lot of Miami Heat fans there. It’s just like being home,” Haslem said.

The 2013 training camp featured Lebron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh – the former ‘Big Three’ of the Heat who led them to two National Basketball Association (NBA) titles.

Last season, the Heat advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals but fell short 4-3 to the Boston Celtics. The Heat, who are coached by Erik Spoelstra, finished regular season play as the number one seed in the Eastern Conference with a 53-29 win/loss record – two games ahead of the Celtics who entered the playoffs as the second seeded team. The Heat are looking to return to the NBA Finals this upcoming season, beginning with training camp in The Bahamas next week.

The team will head back to Miami, Florida, on Saturday October 1, to start preseason action. They will tip off the preseason with a home matchup at the FTX Arena against the new-look Minnesota Timberwolves that now features Rudy Gobert alongside franchise player Karl-Anthony Towns. That game is set for Tuesday October 4.

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Bahamian Ashley Michel named ICCAC Athlete of the Week

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 Bahamian Ashley Michel.

The Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) has named Bahamian Ashley Michel, a sophomore for the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) Bears women’s golf team, as the ICCAC Athlete of the Week for women’s golf for the week of September 12 to 18. She is the first DMACC women’s golfer to be honored this season.

Michel captured her second individual championship this season when she won the DMACC Invitational on September 16 at Cedar Pointe Golf Course in Boone, Iowa. She posted a five-over-par 77 in winning the title.

Michel also won the North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) Fall Invitational on September 8 at the Mason Country Club in Mason City, Iowa, shooting her first five-over-par 77 of the season.

The DMACC women’s golf team finished second in both tournaments.

Michel’s two wins match her tournament wins from the 2021-22 season. In addition to winning two tournaments in 2021-22, Michel had three runner-up performances during that season. The Bears played 11 tournaments in 2021-22 with Michel finishing fifth or higher five times and 10th or better 10 times.

She will lead the Bears at the Waldorf Invite September 25 and 26. The tournament will be played at the Wedgewood Cove Golf Club in Albert Lea, Minnesota, on September 25 and at the Rice Lake Golf and Country Club in Lake Mills, Iowa, on September 26.

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Wildcats take 1-0 lead over Truckers as playoffs get underway

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 Sunshine Auto Wildcats’ shortstop Larikah Russell makes contact in this photo. The Wildcats defeated the Johnson’s Lady Truckers, 13-3, at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Thursday night, to take a one game to none lead in their NPSA best-of-three semifinal series. DANTE CARRER

The New Providence Softball Association (NPSA) got its 2022 playoffs underway on Thursday and the women’s defending champions Sunshine Auto Wildcats got their title defense off to a good start as they took a 1-0 lead over the Johnson’s Lady Truckers in their mini best-of-three semifinal series. They won 13-3 last night on the Bankers Softball Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.

It was the beginning of the first NPSA playoffs series since 2019, because of the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic which forced the league to shut down for three years.

Shortstop Larikah Russell was consistent for the Wildcats, going a perfect 2-for-2 at the plate. She scored three runs and had one run batted in (RBI). She got help from winning pitcher Thela Stevens who scored two runs and had eight strikeouts from the mound.

Despite scoring three runs in the bottom of the first inning, the Wildcats did not look like their usual dominant selves. It was not until the third inning when they came alive offensively. In the bottom of that inning, the Wildcats scored six runs to take a 12-3 lead.

After the Lady Truckers came up empty in the top of the fourth inning, the Wildcats needed just one run to put the mercy rule in play. Left fielder Tyrice Davis scored the winning run for the Wildcats on a pass ball, giving them the 13-3 victory. It was her second run of the night.

The Wildcats were also this season’s pennant winner, finishing with a 9-3 win/loss record. They are going after a fourth straight championship title. The RAB Operators also finished with a 9-3 record but the Wildcats won the tiebreaker due to a 2-1 advantage in their head-to-head matchups. They earned the right to take on the fourth-place Lady Truckers (5-7). The Wildcats won all three regular season matchups against the Lady Truckers. They won the first matchup 11-6, the second one 11-1, and the third one by default.

Game two of this series will be held on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The second game of the doubleheader last night featured a matchup between the number two and three seeded teams in the men’s division. The number two seeded Cyber Tech Blue Marlins (10-2) battled the Atlantis Titans (4-7) but no score was available up to press time.

The Titans and the Chances Mighty Mitts had identical records but the Titans won the tiebreaker for the third seed after sporting a 2-1 record in their head-to-head matchups. The Blue Marlins swept their regular season meetings against the Titans, 3-0, winning 9-1, 10-2 and 7-0.

The playoffs continue tonight with the men’s defending champions C&S Hitmen (11-1) taking on the Mighty Mitts at 9 p.m. The Hitmen swept the Mighty Mitts in the regular season, 3-0. They won their games 6-3, 8-5 and 13-12.

The women’s division game between the second-seeded RAB Operators and the improved third-seeded University of The Bahamas Mingoes (6-6) is set for 7 p.m. The Operators won the regular season head-to-head matchups, 2-1. The Mingoes won the first game 10-8. However, the Operators won the final two regular season meetings, 20-9 and 11-4.

The Renegades (1-11) in the men’s division and the Black Scorpions (1-11) in the women’s division did not make the playoffs.

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Equestrian athletes take the spotlight at Marshall & Sterling Insurance League Finals

SHOWN, from left to right, 5th place finalist Hannah D’Aguilar and Last Call, Kimberly Johnson, trainer (CEC), rider Ella Saidi, Erika Adderley, trainer (Mariposa Stables), 12th place finalist Isabella Coello and Schokolade Sea.

SHOWN, from left to right, 5th place finalist Hannah D’Aguilar and Last Call, Kimberly Johnson, trainer (CEC), rider Ella Saidi, Erika Adderley, trainer (Mariposa Stables), 12th place finalist Isabella Coello and Schokolade Sea.

As of Wednesday, September 21, 2022

#EQUESTRIAN athletes Hannah D’Aguilar, Isabella Coello and Ella Saidi may ride at different barns at home in Nassau, but they were a united and formidable presence this past weekend at the 2022 Marshall & Sterling Insurance League Finals.

#More than 500 North American riders gathered at the world-class facility in Saugerties, New York, to compete at all levels and showcase the rising talent in the hunter, jumper and equitation rings.

#Hannah D’Aguilar, who rides at Camperdown Equestrian Centre, and Isabella Coello and Ella Saidi, who ride at Mariposa Stables, travelled with their trainers Kimberly Johnson and Erika Adderley respectively, to compete in the event.

#The result was a triumph for the Bahamian contingent, with two riders finishing in the ribbons for the first time ever. Equestrian Bahamas president Cathy Ramsingh-Pierre praised the riders and trainers for their notable accomplishment. “We have had riders qualify for, and place in, the Marshall & Sterling Finals before,” she noted, “but we have never had two Finalists finish in the ribbons in the same year. It is a phenomenal testament to the abilities of our coaches and riders.”

#The weekend began propitiously when 16-year old Hannah D’Aguilar, a 12th-grader at Queen’s College here in Nassau, rode Valley Crest Stables’ Last Call to 8th place out of a field of 70 in the Hudson Children’s Equitation Classic.

#However, the class was merely preparation for the main event of the weekend: the Marshall & Sterling Children’s Medal Final, in which riders compete by invitation only.

#D’Aguilar, Coello and Saidi were among the 74 riders who had worked for the past year just to qualify to ride in the event, and now gathered at the Grand Prix Stadium to test their equitation skills.

#D’Aguilar (again on Last Call) was the first of the Bahamian riders to enter the ring. She laid down a nearly perfect trip which was reflected in a score of 82.5 (out of 100).

#The high score not only put her in 3rd place but was good enough to fend off dozens of the riders who followed, all vying to be one of the top 12 finishers who would qualify for the final testing.

#Next to go was Ella Saidi, riding Megan Gore’s Normandy. Saidi distinguished herself earlier this year at the Interscholastic Equestrian Association Hunt Seat Finals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

#But this time it was not to be. Her score in the low 70s essentially placed her out of the running.

#Finally came 15-year old Isabella Coello, an 11th-grader at Windsor School, riding Schokolade Sea, owned by Greystone Stables.

#Coello rode a smooth and competent round, scoring over 80 which was good enough to make the final 12.

#Having finished in the top 12, D’Aguilar and Coello were invited back into the ring with 10 other riders to perform a technically demanding test over jumps set by the judges.

#Final placings shifted as the test score was added to the score from the original round.

#The eventual winner of the class was Grace Monobianca riding Carboni 3. Ultimately, D’Aguilar and Last Call placed 5th while Coello and Schokolade Sea finished 12th.

#Trainer Kimberly Johnson summed up their performance with a single sentence and a big smile: “They were awesome.”

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A STUNNING COMEBACK: Team Great Britain advances to its first World Baseball

MAIN PHOTO: Centrefielder Anfernee Seymour, shown here training prior to playing for Great Britain, collected two hits and stole two bases in the victory. Photo: Great Britain Baseball 
INSET: Tahnaj Thomas (left) and D’Shawn Knowles.

MAIN PHOTO: Centrefielder Anfernee Seymour, shown here training prior to playing for Great Britain, collected two hits and stole two bases in the victory. Photo: Great Britain Baseball INSET: Tahnaj Thomas (left) and D’Shawn Knowles.

As of Wednesday, September 21, 2022

#By BRENT STUBBS

#Senior Sports Reporter

#bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

#Tahnaj Thomas got the win in relief on the mound and D’Shawn Knowles and Anfernee Seymour provided a 1-2 offensive attack for Great Britain as they sealed a come-from-behind 10-9 win over Spain yesterday to book their ticket to the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

#Great Britain, with Albert Cartwright as the first base coach and five players on the team representing the Bahamas, remained undefeated in the three games played so far in the Regensburg Qualifier in Germany at the Armin-Wolf-Arena.

#Trailing 9-8 going into the bottom of the ninth inning, Jaden Rudd cracked a game-tying home run to right field off Spain’s Rhiner Cruz to send the game to extra innings.

#Thomas came in relief for Donovan Benoit in the top of the 10th inning and held Spain at bay to earn the win on the mound after Alex Crosby lifted a walk-off sacrifice fly to left field in the bottom of the frame to send Great Britain to the World Baseball Classic.

#Knowles, playing left field, was 3-for-5 with three runs batted in (RBI) and two runs scored, including a two-run home run in the seventh inning that scored Alex Crosby to cut Great Britain’s deficit to one, 9-10.

#Seymour, playing next to Knowles in centre field, was 2-for-3 with a base on balls (walk) and a hit by pitch. He also stole a pair of bases and came home twice.

#The other players from the Bahamas on the team are pitcher Chavez Fernander and catcher Ural Forbes.

#Great Britain routed France 14-4 in their first game of the tournament on Friday. They came back and got their second win on Saturday with a 9-1 decision over Germany.

#This is the third time that the Bahamian players have teamed up to play with Great Britain.

#Cartwright and Antoan Richardson were the first to do so in 2013.

#The two, along with Jasrado “Jazz” Chisholm, Kyle Simmons, Ali Knowles, Todd Isaacs, Champ Stuart, Chavez Young and Reshard Munroe, played again in 2016.

#The tournament was to be played in 2020, but was called off due to COVID-19. With the return of the tournament this year, it marked the first time that Great Britain has qualified for the World Baseball Classic.

#The Bahamas was unable to field a team for the classic because it has not participated in any World Baseball/Softball Confederation in quite a while and therefore the ranking is not up to par to play on its own.

#Bahamas Baseball Association secretary general Teddy Sweeting said they will begin making progress to fielding a team from the Bahamas by hosting its first major international tournament in December to christen the new baseball stadium, which is expected to be completed by the end of November.

#Despite losing to Great Britain, Spain will still have a chance.

#Spain plays the Czech Republic today, with the winner of that game earning the final spot in World Baseball Classic 2023 from Pool A.

#Spain beat the Czech Republic 21-7 in their first meeting of the tournament.

#Germany and Panama serve as the two respective sites of the qualifiers this fall.

#Each location will host a six-team pool, with the top two teams from each qualifier advancing to the main event in March 2023.

#The Pool B Qualifier is scheduled for September 30 to October 5 in Panama City and includes no. 13 Panama, no. 15 Nicaragua, no. 25 Brazil, no. 27 Argentina, no. 31 Pakistan, and no. 46 New Zealand.

#The newly expanded 20-team, top-tier global tournament serves as the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s official pro-level National Team World Championship.

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Three goals for Nicholas

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Bahamian collegiate water polo player excelling for the Mountaineers

Simba FrenchSend an emailSeptember 21, 2022 65 2 minute readFacebookTwitterLinkedInShare via Email

 Bahamian collegiate water polo player Nicholas Wallace-Whitfield scored three goals for the Mount Saint Mary’s Mountaineers at the Bucknell Invite in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, this past weekend. MOUNTAINEERS ATHLETICS

Bahamian collegiate water polo player Nicholas Wallace-Whitfield scored three goals for his team, the Mount Saint Mary’s Mountaineers, as they evenly split a four-game slate at the Bucknell Invite at the Kinney Natatorium in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, over the weekend.

Bahamian Saequan Miller’s team, the Salem University Tigers, were in action as well, but the graduate student was not available to play. They also split their four games.

Wallace-Whitfield and Miller’s teams met again in the pool after the Tigers got the best of the Mountaineers two weeks ago. It was the same result this time with the Tigers winning, 20-9. Wallace-Whitfield scored two goals in this match but it was not enough as the Tigers scored a combined 14 goals in the first and fourth periods.

The sophomore said that it was a tough loss and they have to put it behind them.

“The Salem game was a tough loss. It is something we must put behind us and focus on the future. I know that isn’t the end, we most likely will get a chance to play them again at conference championships and must be ready for that,” Wallace-Whitfield said.

He also had a goal on Saturday, helping the Mountaineers take down McKendree University, 11-10.

“I was extremely happy,” Wallace-Whitfield said. “It gave me a sense of confidence knowing I can be someone on the team to score when needed.”

The Mountaineers’ two losses came against two Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MWPC) teams – the Tigers and Fordham. They lost the game against Fordham, 17-13. They were able to end the weekend on a good note with a 17-13 victory over Mercyhurst University. They now sport a 4-3 win/loss record on the season.

“Our team, which is still relatively young filled with mostly freshmen and sophomores, is still building team chemistry and we are finding out how to play with each other. We know what we can do and the ultimate goal for the end of the season is to be conference champions. We must all make that our number one priority,” Wallace-Whitfield said.

Miller’s Tigers’ next victory came against Mercyhurst, 21-12. Their losses came against Wagner College, 18-14, and then to Fordham University, 24-12.

Up next for the Mountaineers and the Tigers is a four-game slate this weekend in Erie, Pennsylvania, for the MWPC Crossover on Friday and Sunday. Miller is hopeful that he will be available to play this time.

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‘BJ’ Murray to play in the Arizona Fall League


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‘BJ’ Murray to play in the Arizona Fall League

Simba FrenchSend an emailSeptember 21, 2022 68 2 minute readFacebookTwitterLinkedInShare via Email

 Bertram “BJ” Murray Jr.

In just his second professional season since being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 2021 in the Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft, Bahamian Bertram ‘BJ’ Murray got a call to play for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League on Sunday.

It is a huge step in the right direction for the 22-year-old as he looks to get to the majors. Murray is currently playing for the pennant-winning South Bend Cubs in the Midwest League Championship as they take on the Lake County Captains in High-A Baseball. The Captains lead that best-of-three series 1-0. The second game was played last night, but there wasn’t any result available up to press time.

The Arizona Fall League is a six-week league that features some of the best talent in the farm system. Mesa features players from the Oakland Athletics, Cubs, Miami Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees. It gets underway on October 3.

The third baseman was called up from the Myrtle Beach Pelicans in Single-A in June to the South Bend Cubs.

He finished with a batting average of .273 in 56 games for the Cubs in the regular season. Murray posted 51 hits, five home runs, eight doubles and one triple. The former Florida Atlantic University (FAU) standout had 28 runs batted in (RBIs) and 22 runs scored. His on-base percentage was .388 and he had a slugging percentage of .406 for an on-base plus slugging (OPS) percentage of .794. He was able to steal eight bases.

Overall, this past season, he accumulated a batting average of .286, thanks to a .305 average for the Pelicans. He was able to finish with 61 RBIs, 10 home runs and 106 hits. He ended his season strong, especially in September. He went 10-for-30 and was able to finish with a batting average of .333 during the month. Murray had one home run and scored five runs during the month. Murray’s best game of the month was in the final game of the season when his Cubs took down the Cedar Rapids, 9-2. In that game, Murray was impressive, going 3-for-4 and scoring one run. He was able to steal a base.

In the four postseason games, he is averaging a batting average of .462 and has gone 6-for-13. He has two runs scored and two RBIs to go along with eight total bases. His on-base percentage in the postseason is .563 and his slugging percentage is .615 for a 1.171 OPS.

In the first game in the championship against the Captains, the infielder was impressive at the plate, going 3-for-4, scoring two runs and hitting two doubles.

The Bahamian and the Mesa Solar Sox will kick off the Arizona Fall League on Monday October 3 against the Scottsdale Scorpions at 6.35 p.m.

Bahamians Jasrado ‘Jazz’ Chisholm Jr. and Lucius Fox Jr., who were the seventh and eighth Bahamians to be called up to the majors, both played in the Arizona Fall League. Chisholm is a starting infielder with the Miami Marlins and Fox got his call-up with the Washington Nationals but has since been sent down to the club’s Triple-A affiliate, the Rochester Red Wings.

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One win away from WBC qualification

PRO baseball player Chavez Fernander in action for Great Britain.
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PRO baseball player Chavez Fernander in action for Great Britain. Photo: Great Britain Baseball

As of Tuesday, September 20, 2022

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D’Shawn Knowles in action for Great Britain. Photo: Great Britain Baseball

#By RENALDO DORSETT

#Tribune Sports Reporter

#rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

#Team Great Britain has dominated competition thus far at the World Baseball Classic Qualifiers and is now one win away from advancing to the marquee tournament in 2023.

#Great Britain is slated to face Spain at 1pm today at the Armin Wolf Arena in Regensburg, Germany. The winner joins the list of qualifiers at the World Baseball Classic next March, while the loser will be relegated but will still have an opportunity to qualify with a win in the third-place game.

#All WBC qualifying games will be broadcast on MLB.com, at Worldbaseballclassic.com and on the World Baseball Classic’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

#The Great Britain roster includes outfielders Anfernee Seymour and D’Shawn Knowles, pitchers Tahnaj Thomas and Chavez Fernander, catcher Ural Forbes and Albert Cartwright as a member of the coaching staff.

#Cartwright has served as the first base coach through the first two games of the tournament.

#Great Britain is currently ranked at no.23 in the WBSC rankings while Spain is ranked no.19.

#GB opened the tournament with a 14-4 win over no. 22 France in a game that was stopped after eight innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.

#Seymour went 3-5 with 3 RBI and scored three runs. Knowles went 1-3 with an RBI and scored two runs.

#Britain scored in each of the final six innings. Every Great Britain starter reached base at least once, and all but one had at least one hit.

#In game two, Seymour and Knowles continued their production at the plate, while both pitchers saw action in relief duty. Great Britain scored an 8-1 win over the host country Germany to advance to the first-place game.

#Seymour finished 2-4 with two RBI and scored two runs with a stolen base while Knowles was 2-4 with a stolen base.

#Fernander took the mound in the eighth inning and recorded one strikeout.

#Thomas closed out the game in the ninth inning and also recorded a strikeout. Six Great Britain pitchers held Germany to just one run on four hits. The game went into a rain delay during the top of the fifth inning with Great Britain leading 3-1.

#Once play resumed, they added five more runs, including Seymour’s two-run triple. Germany and Panama serve as the two respective sites of the qualifiers this fall. Each location will host a six-team pool, with the top two teams from each qualifier advancing to the main event in March 2023.

#The Pool B Qualifier is scheduled for September 30 to October 5 in Panama City and includes no. 13 Panama, no. 15 Nicaragua, no. 25 Brazil, no. 27 Argentina, no. 31 Pakistan, and no. 46 New Zealand.

#The newly expanded 20-team, top-tier global tournament serves as the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s official professional-level National Team World Championship

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WNBA Finals: Jonquel Jones and the Sun are eliminated

CONNECTICUT Sun’s Jonquel Jones during Game 4 the WNBA Finals on Sunday in Uncasville, Connecticut.
(AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

CONNECTICUT Sun’s Jonquel Jones during Game 4 the WNBA Finals on Sunday in Uncasville, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

As of Tuesday, September 20, 2022

#By RENALDO DORSETT

#Tribune Sports Reporter

#rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

#THE 2022 season ended on a disappointing note for Jonquel Jones and her Connecticut Sun.

#The Sun were defeated by the Las Vegas Aces 78-71 Sunday night in game four of the WNBA Finals. The Aces closed out the series with a 3-1 edge to claim their first title in franchise history.

#Jones finished with 13 points and eight rebounds.

#Trailing 73-71 with 1:18 left to play, Jones pulled down an offensive rebound but was unable to convert the putback amid a trio of Aces defenders.

#Las Vegas followed with a 5-0 run in the final minute to close out the game and the series.

#“This team has heart. This team has a lot of pride. This team, everybody has made sacrifices for us to be able to be back here,” Jones said. “The chips didn’t fall the way we wanted them to. But there’s a lot of selflessness and a lot of sacrifices to be able to have this team back together and make this run.”

#Jones averaged 16 points and 8.3 rebounds over the course of the series.

#“You know, while it’s tough and it’s disappointing, we get to say that we were one of the last two teams standing and playing for a championship,” Jones said.

#“So I’ve got a lot of pride and a lot of joy with the moments that I’ve had with this team and have the ladies that have been ready to play with every night.”

#It was the Sun’s second appearance in the WNBA Finals in the last three years following a 2019 loss to the Washington Mystics. The Sun have exited the playoffs in the semifinals or finals in the last four seasons.

#The Sun also hold the unenviable record of being the franchise with the most WNBA postseason wins (37) without a title.

#“Incredibly proud of our team and our resilience and our fight. It was a grind out there, both teams playing so hard, both teams playing so well in stretches defensively, and just incredibly proud of our effort….It was a great game and great for our league,” said Sun head coach Curt Miller.

#“Our team, we talk about it, that it’s going to hurt when you care as much as we do, and they put their hearts and soul into seasons. When you come up short, it really hurts. That means that there was something that mattered and something special amongst that group of players when it hurts that much.”

#Jones had a 2022 season to remember following her 2021 MVP campaign.

#She was named to the All- WNBA Second Team, the All Defensive Second Team, and received her fourth WNBA All- Star selection, voted a starter for a third time.

#Jones led the Sun in points (14.6), rebounds (8.6) and blocks (1.2) per game. Jones hit a plethora of career milestones this season, moving into first all-time in blocks (270), third all-time in rebounds (1,633) and sixth all-time in points (2,657) in Connecticut Sun franchise history.

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