Kings overpower Bayside Blazers to take first K&J C/ship
The champions won 21-16 in the final with marksman Sean Woods aka ‘Chino’ sinking the winner from downtown.
Juan Richard was simply unstoppable for the Kings as he seemed to score at will and even displayed his confidence by often shouting to the Bayside Blazers 1 management and supporters, “yall men them can’t stop me” as he pounded his chest every time he overpowered his marker in the paint to score.
Blazers 1, which included Javon K. Serrant, Houston E. Penn, Jamal K. Serrant and Dion Blyden, with Roy E. Garraway as coach, seemed headed for an easy loss but found their rhythm late to recover from trailing 12-19 to narrow the deficit to 3 points.
The Serrant brothers were particularly threatening and seemed keen on making an unlikely comeback at the death, much to the hype of their supporters, when Sean Woods aka ‘Chino’ netted one from long range to silence the Bayside Blazers supporters and send his teammates and supporters in celebration mood.
“I am always confident, I have been confident from day one and I really wanted to come ahead because I know it was going to be a challenge and we had to work really hard for it. Before the game started we were talking to each other and challenging each other so I was up for the challenge. I was pepped up and ready,” an elated Richards told Virgin Islands News Online after the win.
Kings received $1200 for the win.
Bayside Blazers fielded two teams in the tournament, with Bayside Blazers 2 reaching the final four but were eliminated by Bayside Blazers 1.
Other results
The 16-18 years Division was won by Who’ Next who defeated Ballers in the final; the 13-15 division was won by Future who overcame Arrow Gang in the championship game while the 9-13 Division was taken by Bang Bros who beat Ballers 1 in the deciding game.
The Over 40 Division was won by Unity who overcame Winners.
One of the organisers, Jason A. Edwin, commenting on the tournament, said there were very positive feedback over the two days the tournament was staged and will definitely be looking to have the tournament again next year, bearing in mind that the first staging was yet a learning experience. “We are going to go back to the drawing board, include all the people involved, and see how we could improve this venture.”
As regards sponsorship, players were thrilled to have received Playstation 4 sets, Xbox and Samsung Galaxy tablets as part of their prizes.
“We set out to bring the Virgin Islands as one and in order to do that we wanted to bring corporate BVI and the people together. We sat down and discussed how we could make the sponsors give back and feel good about it,” Edwin stated.
Sponsors included Mourant Ozannes, Digicel, Caribbean Insurers Ltd., Road Town Wholesale, Busta, Dasani, STO Enterprise, Skelton Group of Companies, Virgin Islands News Online, National Bank of the Virgin Islands, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn, Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3), Honourable Delores Christopher (R5), BVI Hotpress, JTV, Stinky's Barbershop and Banco Popular.
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12 Responses to “Kings overpower Bayside Blazers to take first K&J C/ship”
The games were entertaining on every level and the players displayed a level of sportsmanship that I hope can be restored in the normal league. Kennedy, Jason and the rest of your team, many thanks for an event that showed us all why we still love basketball.
We'd like to have a toddlers display game in the next event.
See you next year…