Home|Sports|A trio of silver partners come on board with CARIFTASports

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The Local Organizing Committee of the 50th CARIFTA Games (LOC) welcomes three silver partners on board with the junior regional track and field event being about a month away. The announcement came at a press conference held at the Cultural Village at the eastern side of the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium yesterday.

Joining the long list of sponsors are accounting firms Ernst and Young (EY) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), and the Arawak Port Development Limited. The three sponsors donated $20,000 each for a sum of $60,000.

Partner at PWC Myra Lundy-Mortimer knows the path that the event has led Bahamians and Caribbean athletes to has been beneficial in their lives. A number of former CARIFTA athletes have gone on to experience collegiate and professional success. She recognized that this is the ninth time that The Bahamas is hosting the event.

“We know that an investment in our youth is an investment in the future of our continued success story of The Bahamas for the next 50 years. It is with this investment that we proudly stand with the LOC for the CARIFTA Games. As a proud sponsor, our team is committed to supporting the legacy that CARIFTA has achieved in youth development, sports and culture, and we are thrilled to make a contribution to the continued investment in the future workforce and athletics in The Bahamas,” Lundy-Mortimer said.

Bahamas Country Managing Partner at EY Michele Thompson said that it is imperative to support the athletes and CARIFTA as it helps to prepare the next generation to be successful in the future.

“We believe that the inherent confidence, the leadership skills, working in high-performing teams and the discipline that athletes develop over years of dedicated training add tremendous value to their future career paths. We admire our athletes who are exhibiting resilience, and promoting good values, which are part of our history and our culture. Athletes give us all a good example as they navigate through their challenges while setting their eyes on gold. We wish all the very best, particularly our young athletes as they showcase their athletic abilities regionally and globally,” Thompson said.

Administrative Assistant at APD Limited Bianca Aranha said that as a good corporate citizen they had to find a way to come on board to support the athletes.

“We are very excited to be a part of this,” Aranha said. “We want to encourage all Bahamians to come in their colors and support the young athletes. We believe in the future of our nation and we know the CARIFTA Games is the training ground for them to come to the senior level so we’re looking forward to with partnering with the LOC.”

Minster of Youth, Sports and Culture Mario Bowleg said he is looking forward to seeing the performances of the local and visiting athletes at CARIFTA.

“It has been my pleasure to watch the continued progression I have seen as the repairs, preparations and planning begins to manifest for these upcoming 50th CARIFTA Games. I am proud today to join hands with these new partners who support our goal of making the upcoming CARIFTA Games amazing and a better avenue for our young athletes. As the latest silver partners for 50th CARIFTA Games, we welcome you to the CARIFTA family. I thank them for partnering with us,” Bowleg said.

The 50th CARIFTA Games is set to be held April 8-10 at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium. Tickets are already on sale as Bahamian athletes look to perform at a high level. Tickets can be obtained at the box office at the stadium or online at the website www.carifta50.com.

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 Home|Sports|Junior tennis teams compete in GuatemalaSports

Boys remain undefeated while girls drop their first match

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The Bahamas’ Junior Davis Cup team stayed unbeaten as they took down Barbados 3-0 at the Central America and Caribbean (CAC) pre-qualifying tournament in Guatemala City, Guatemala, yesterday, while the junior girls began action in the Junior Billie Jean King Cup Tournament. The girls lost a tough tie, 2-1, to St. Lucia.

Coming off a hard fought 2-1 victory over Jamaica on Monday, the unseeded Bahamian team swept the seventh-seeded Barbados team in Junior Davis Cup action, looking to make a deep run in Group D.

Jackson Mactaggart got the action underway for The Bahamas in the number two singles slot and was able to easily secure a victory in straight sets over Ethan Warner. He won 6-1 and 6-1. Jerold Carroll did the same in the second match in the number one singles slot against Aidan Clarke. Carroll won 6-1 and 6-1.

In the doubles portion, William McCartney and Jackson Mactaggart teamed up to take on Clarke and Cristian Blunte. The Bahamian doubles team won in straight sets to complete the sweep. The score was 6-2 and 6-0.

They will return to the court today taking on Nicaragua in their final group game. A victory for The Bahamas will give them a spot in the championship round while a loss can have them battling for a sixth through 10th position, based on a set count with Nicaragua.

BreAnn Ferguson kicked off the Billie King Junior Cup action for The Bahamas. She posted with a straight set victory over Iyana Paul. Ferguson won 6-3 and 6-3. In the number one singles slot, Jalisa Clarke was not able to win over Jessica Eudovich. She fell 1-6 and 1-6.

In doubles, Ferguson teamed up with her older cousin, Sapphire Ferguson. The cousin duo took on Paul and Eudovich. In the end, it was the St. Lucians who came out after a physically demanding match. The Fergusons fell, 6-7(5) and 6-7(6).

The girls return to action today to play against the second-seeded Guatemalan team. A win will advance the team to the championship round, playing for a first through eighth spot at the tournament. 

On Monday, The Bahamas’ Junior Davis Cup team turned back Jamaica, 2-1, with McCartney falling 2-6 and 4-6 in the number two singles slot. Carroll secured the number one singles 6-3 and 6-2 victory to set up a decisive doubles match. Carroll and Mactaggart teamed up. They clinched the tie with a win in straight sets, 6-3 and 6-2.

The boys team is coached by Bradley Bain and the girls team is coached by Marion Bain.

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 Home|Sports|Mingoes upset one of the top teams in the NPBASports

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The University of The Bahamas (UB) Mingoes men’s basketball team started off slowly against one of the top teams in the New Providence Basketball Association (NPBA) at the A.F. Adderley Gymnasium on Saturday night, but recovered and proved the adage of ‘it’s how you finish that matters’ to be true. 

The Mingoes trailed Sand Dollar, 14-4, with 2:57 to go in the first quarter, but came back to pick up one of the team’s biggest wins of the season, prevailing 68-58 over the second place Sand Dollar team. Sand Dollar leads the John Archer Division with an 8-2 win/loss record following the loss, and is second overall behind the Discount Distributor Liquor Rockets who are an unblemished 10-0. They lead the Vince Ferguson Division.

Erquantae Edgecombe led the Mingoes with 28 points and five rebounds. Justin Burrows contributed 13 points, seven steals and six rebounds and Ricardo Taylor Jr. posted 11 points.

“The shots were falling for us here tonight,” Edgecombe said. “We had a lot of inside shots that connected. We need those shots to drop. The game plan was to come out defensively with a lot of communication and talk with intensity, especially coming from an international tour and using that experience here in the league.”

Edgecombe scored 15 points, including three three-pointers, in the second quarter to help the Mingoes even the score at 25 at the half.

In the third quarter, Edgecombe and Ricardo Taylor Jr. combined for 17 points to push the Mingoes ahead 53-40.

The Mingoes were able to hold off a late surge from Sand Dollar to pick up the 68-58 win.

The Mingoes had 36 points in the paint and 24 points off fast breaks.

Delano Armbrister and Theodore Grant each contributed four assists for the Mingoes.

A big statistic for the Mingoes was turnovers and points off turnovers. The Mingoes forced 29 turnovers and were able to covert those turnovers into 32 points.

The Mingoes now hold firm in the third spot in the Vince Ferguson Division with a 5-5 record. Sand Dollar still leads the John Archer Division with an 8-2 record.

The Mingoes are expected to play Zulu Media Marketing on Friday at 7 p.m. at the A.F. Adderley Gymnasium.

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 Home|Sports|Hinds’ five-wicket haul not enough as The Bahamas fallsSports

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Bahamian senior men’s national cricket team bowler Kervon Hinds saw his historic five-wicket haul spoiled as The Bahamas finished 94/8 against the Cayman Islands, losing by 31 runs at the St. Albans Ground in Buenos Aires, 

Argentina, yesterday.

It was their second match in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) 2024 TwentyTwenty (T20) World Cup Sub Regional Americas Qualifier 2023. The Bahamas now sits in third in the standings with a 1-1 win/loss record and four points. They won by four wickets over Panama on Sunday to get their campaign started. Bermuda and the host country Argentina are also competing.

Hinds is the first bowler to have a five-wicket haul for The Bahamas in international T20 action.

Against Cayman, the Cayman Islands won the toss and chose to bat. The Bahamas got off to a good start in the first three overs, only allowing 14 runs, but didn’t collect any Cayman Islands wicket. Hinds changed all that in the fourth over when he got Brian Corbin on a drive that Festus Benn caught. The Cayman Islands were 22/1 after that over.

The Cayman Islands duo of man-of-the-match Yeron DeAlwis and Paul Manning steadied their side. The Bahamas could not break up the partnership that yielded 48 runs. In the 10th over, 

wCayman tallied 72 runs for the loss of just one wicket.

The Bahamas’ captain Marc Taylor had a delivery, broke up the partnership of DeAlwis and Manning when wicketkeeper Julio Jemison stumped Manning out for 17 runs in the 11th over. By the end of the 16th over, The Bahamas collected four wickets but none was the elusive DeAlwis who was a thorn to the Bahamian squad. He had 54 runs after 16 overs with Cayman scoring 101 runs for the loss of five wickets.

Hinds bowled the 19th over for The Bahamas and made a direct impact in the game as he finally got DeAlwis on a catch by Benn. DeAlwis had 74 runs off 57 balls and Cayman had 121 runs for six wickets. Hinds took two more wickets to slow down the Cayman Islands whose total was at 123 for the loss of eight wickets after 19 overs.

They ended that inning at 125 all out with Narendra Ekanayake claiming the final two wickets.

Hinds completed a full spell and grabbed five wickets while giving up just 18 runs. Benn and Ekanayake finished with two wickets each and gave up 18 and 15 runs, respectively.

The Bahamas was on track after the first three overs, scoring 17 runs not out and needing 109 runs from 102 balls. Taylor, as expected, faced most balls and had 14 runs while Ekanayake had three runs. Fast forward to the end of the seventh over, and The Bahamas’ batting took a hit as Ekanayake (three), Hinds (two), Gregory Taylor Jr. (two) and Turan Brown (zero) were out by the end of seventh over. The Bahamas was at 33 runs for four wickets with Taylor on 20 runs and Benn joining him at the other batting end. The Bahamas needed 93 runs from 78 balls.

The partnership of Taylor and Benn accumulated for 20 runs before Taylor was out in the 11th over on 35 runs that consisted of four fours and one six.

It went downhill for The Bahamas’ batting after that over although Benn and Jonathan Barry were able to stop the wickets from falling. They were unable to pick up the strike and run rates. Barry was out for 22 runs in the 19th over with The Bahamas on 91 runs for the loss of eight wickets and the game out of reach.

Today is a rest day for all of the teams. The Bahamas will be in action on Thursday when they play against the host nation at the same location as yesterday’s game. That match starts at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) and will be streamed live on the website www.icc.tv.

The team is looking to be one of the top three teams at the tournament and move on to the Americas regional final which will be played in September of this year. The top three teams will be joined by Canada in that regional final and the winner of that tournament will secure a spot in the 2024 T20 World Cup, set to be held in June 2024 in the United States and the West Indies.

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BAHAMAS JR DAVIS CUP TEAM

#THE Bahamas Junior Davis Cup team defeated Barbados 3-0 yesterday at the Central America and Caribbean Jr Davis Cup pre-qualifying event in Guatemala.

#Jackson Mactaggart and Jerald Carroll both won their singles matches in identical scores of 6-1, 6-1 and William McCartney and Mactaggart teamed up to take the doubles 6-2, 6-3 for the sweep.

#The team, coached by Bradley Bain, will be back in action today when they take on Nicaragua.

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#THE Bahamas Junior Davis Cup team defeated Barbados 3-0 yesterday at the Central America and Caribbean Jr Davis Cup pre-qualifying event in Guatemala.

#Jackson Mactaggart and Jerald Carroll both won their singles matches in identical scores of 6-1, 6-1 and William McCartney and Mactaggart teamed up to take the doubles 6-2, 6-3 for the sweep.

#The team, coached by Bradley Bain, will be back in action today when they take on Nicaragua.

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BAHAMAS girls doubles team of Saphirre and Bre-Ann Ferguson, duo on the left, beside their St Lucia opponents.

#TEAM Bahamas lost their first match of the Junior Billy Jean King Cup for girls to St Lucia yesterday. They were beaten 2-1.

#In their singles matches, BreAnn Ferguson won 6-3, 6-3, but Jalisa Clarke lost her match 6-1, 6-1. And in the doubles, the duo of Saphirre and BreAnn Ferguson, lost 7-6 (7-6) and 7-6 (8-6).

#The team is being coached by Marion Bain.

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 Home|Sports|Junior tennis teams compete in GuatemalaSports

Boys remain undefeated while girls drop their first match

Simba FrenchSend an emailMarch 1, 2023 128 2 minute readFacebookTwitterLinkedInShare via Email

The Bahamas’ Junior Davis Cup team stayed unbeaten as they took down Barbados 3-0 at the Central America and Caribbean (CAC) pre-qualifying tournament in Guatemala City, Guatemala, yesterday, while the junior girls began action in the Junior Billie Jean King Cup Tournament. The girls lost a tough tie, 2-1, to St. Lucia.

Coming off a hard fought 2-1 victory over Jamaica on Monday, the unseeded Bahamian team swept the seventh-seeded Barbados team in Junior Davis Cup action, looking to make a deep run in Group D.

Jackson Mactaggart got the action underway for The Bahamas in the number two singles slot and was able to easily secure a victory in straight sets over Ethan Warner. He won 6-1 and 6-1. Jerold Carroll did the same in the second match in the number one singles slot against Aidan Clarke. Carroll won 6-1 and 6-1.

In the doubles portion, William McCartney and Jackson Mactaggart teamed up to take on Clarke and Cristian Blunte. The Bahamian doubles team won in straight sets to complete the sweep. The score was 6-2 and 6-0.

They will return to the court today taking on Nicaragua in their final group game. A victory for The Bahamas will give them a spot in the championship round while a loss can have them battling for a sixth through 10th position, based on a set count with Nicaragua.

BreAnn Ferguson kicked off the Billie King Junior Cup action for The Bahamas. She posted with a straight set victory over Iyana Paul. Ferguson won 6-3 and 6-3. In the number one singles slot, Jalisa Clarke was not able to win over Jessica Eudovich. She fell 1-6 and 1-6.

In doubles, Ferguson teamed up with her older cousin, Sapphire Ferguson. The cousin duo took on Paul and Eudovich. In the end, it was the St. Lucians who came out after a physically demanding match. The Fergusons fell, 6-7(5) and 6-7(6).

The girls return to action today to play against the second-seeded Guatemalan team. A win will advance the team to the championship round, playing for a first through eighth spot at the tournament. 

On Monday, The Bahamas’ Junior Davis Cup team turned back Jamaica, 2-1, with McCartney falling 2-6 and 4-6 in the number two singles slot. Carroll secured the number one singles 6-3 and 6-2 victory to set up a decisive doubles match. Carroll and Mactaggart teamed up. They clinched the tie with a win in straight sets, 6-3 and 6-2.

The boys team is coached by Bradley Bain and the girls team is coached by Marion Bain.

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 Home|Sports|Mingoes upset one of the top teams in the NPBASports

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The University of The Bahamas (UB) Mingoes men’s basketball team started off slowly against one of the top teams in the New Providence Basketball Association (NPBA) at the A.F. Adderley Gymnasium on Saturday night, but recovered and proved the adage of ‘it’s how you finish that matters’ to be true. 

The Mingoes trailed Sand Dollar, 14-4, with 2:57 to go in the first quarter, but came back to pick up one of the team’s biggest wins of the season, prevailing 68-58 over the second place Sand Dollar team. Sand Dollar leads the John Archer Division with an 8-2 win/loss record following the loss, and is second overall behind the Discount Distributor Liquor Rockets who are an unblemished 10-0. They lead the Vince Ferguson Division.

Erquantae Edgecombe led the Mingoes with 28 points and five rebounds. Justin Burrows contributed 13 points, seven steals and six rebounds and Ricardo Taylor Jr. posted 11 points.

“The shots were falling for us here tonight,” Edgecombe said. “We had a lot of inside shots that connected. We need those shots to drop. The game plan was to come out defensively with a lot of communication and talk with intensity, especially coming from an international tour and using that experience here in the league.”

Edgecombe scored 15 points, including three three-pointers, in the second quarter to help the Mingoes even the score at 25 at the half.

In the third quarter, Edgecombe and Ricardo Taylor Jr. combined for 17 points to push the Mingoes ahead 53-40.

The Mingoes were able to hold off a late surge from Sand Dollar to pick up the 68-58 win.

The Mingoes had 36 points in the paint and 24 points off fast breaks.

Delano Armbrister and Theodore Grant each contributed four assists for the Mingoes.

A big statistic for the Mingoes was turnovers and points off turnovers. The Mingoes forced 29 turnovers and were able to covert those turnovers into 32 points.

The Mingoes now hold firm in the third spot in the Vince Ferguson Division with a 5-5 record. Sand Dollar still leads the John Archer Division with an 8-2 record.

The Mingoes are expected to play Zulu Media Marketing on Friday at 7 p.m. at the A.F. Adderley Gymnasium.

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 Home|Sports|Hinds’ five-wicket haul not enough as The Bahamas fallsSports

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Bahamian senior men’s national cricket team bowler Kervon Hinds saw his historic five-wicket haul spoiled as The Bahamas finished 94/8 against the Cayman Islands, losing by 31 runs at the St. Albans Ground in Buenos Aires, 

Argentina, yesterday.

It was their second match in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) 2024 TwentyTwenty (T20) World Cup Sub Regional Americas Qualifier 2023. The Bahamas now sits in third in the standings with a 1-1 win/loss record and four points. They won by four wickets over Panama on Sunday to get their campaign started. Bermuda and the host country Argentina are also competing.

Hinds is the first bowler to have a five-wicket haul for The Bahamas in international T20 action.

Against Cayman, the Cayman Islands won the toss and chose to bat. The Bahamas got off to a good start in the first three overs, only allowing 14 runs, but didn’t collect any Cayman Islands wicket. Hinds changed all that in the fourth over when he got Brian Corbin on a drive that Festus Benn caught. The Cayman Islands were 22/1 after that over.

The Cayman Islands duo of man-of-the-match Yeron DeAlwis and Paul Manning steadied their side. The Bahamas could not break up the partnership that yielded 48 runs. In the 10th over, 

wCayman tallied 72 runs for the loss of just one wicket.

The Bahamas’ captain Marc Taylor had a delivery, broke up the partnership of DeAlwis and Manning when wicketkeeper Julio Jemison stumped Manning out for 17 runs in the 11th over. By the end of the 16th over, The Bahamas collected four wickets but none was the elusive DeAlwis who was a thorn to the Bahamian squad. He had 54 runs after 16 overs with Cayman scoring 101 runs for the loss of five wickets.

Hinds bowled the 19th over for The Bahamas and made a direct impact in the game as he finally got DeAlwis on a catch by Benn. DeAlwis had 74 runs off 57 balls and Cayman had 121 runs for six wickets. Hinds took two more wickets to slow down the Cayman Islands whose total was at 123 for the loss of eight wickets after 19 overs.

They ended that inning at 125 all out with Narendra Ekanayake claiming the final two wickets.

Hinds completed a full spell and grabbed five wickets while giving up just 18 runs. Benn and Ekanayake finished with two wickets each and gave up 18 and 15 runs, respectively.

The Bahamas was on track after the first three overs, scoring 17 runs not out and needing 109 runs from 102 balls. Taylor, as expected, faced most balls and had 14 runs while Ekanayake had three runs. Fast forward to the end of the seventh over, and The Bahamas’ batting took a hit as Ekanayake (three), Hinds (two), Gregory Taylor Jr. (two) and Turan Brown (zero) were out by the end of seventh over. The Bahamas was at 33 runs for four wickets with Taylor on 20 runs and Benn joining him at the other batting end. The Bahamas needed 93 runs from 78 balls.

The partnership of Taylor and Benn accumulated for 20 runs before Taylor was out in the 11th over on 35 runs that consisted of four fours and one six.

It went downhill for The Bahamas’ batting after that over although Benn and Jonathan Barry were able to stop the wickets from falling. They were unable to pick up the strike and run rates. Barry was out for 22 runs in the 19th over with The Bahamas on 91 runs for the loss of eight wickets and the game out of reach.

Today is a rest day for all of the teams. The Bahamas will be in action on Thursday when they play against the host nation at the same location as yesterday’s game. That match starts at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) and will be streamed live on the website www.icc.tv.

The team is looking to be one of the top three teams at the tournament and move on to the Americas regional final which will be played in September of this year. The top three teams will be joined by Canada in that regional final and the winner of that tournament will secure a spot in the 2024 T20 World Cup, set to be held in June 2024 in the United States and the West Indies.

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