The Bil­liards Sports Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go held their awards cer­e­mo­ny to cel­e­brate in­di­vid­u­als and teams who dis­tin­guished them­selves in com­pe­ti­tion over the past six months. It is the first time in the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s his­to­ry that the BSOTT awards func­tion was ded­i­cat­ed to mul­ti­ple com­pe­ti­tions.

At the event, which was held at the Aquat­ic Cen­tre on Sat­ur­day evening, awards were dis­trib­uted for the Na­tion­al Pool League, the team knock­out and the na­tion­al men’s and women’s sin­gles cham­pi­onships.

On the night, the Unit­ed Stars were the big win­ners, tak­ing home tro­phies and cash prizes for win­ning the NPL pre­mier di­vi­sion ti­tle and the team knock­out com­pe­ti­tion. The Unit­ed Stars’ cap­tain, Aaron Raghoo­nanan, apart from be­ing his team’s MVP, was al­so named Play­er of the League. Sham Jagerssar and Lyn­don Sahi­bram al­so took home spe­cial cat­e­go­ry awards.

Oth­er teams tak­ing home mul­ti­ple awards were Cuetrollerz, who were led by Ravi Goorah. They placed sec­ond in the knock­out and fourth place in the NPL pre­mier di­vi­sion. The Sikar­i­oz Bil­liards Club, which had two teams in both di­vi­sions, al­so dou­bled up on the night, plac­ing third in the pre­mier di­vi­sion, with Adri­an Lo­gie at the helm. Their first di­vi­sion team, cap­tained by John East­man, went one bet­ter by fin­ish­ing sec­ond.

Stay­ing in the first di­vi­sion, Raj Per­sad, al­so known as El Cap­i­tan, led the Rox­bury Shot Callers to their first Na­tion­al Pool League ti­tle. Of the twen­ty-six match­es played in the di­vi­sion, the ‘Shot Callers’ won twen­ty-two, the same as the team in sec­ond but copped the ti­tle by way of a bet­ter games ag­gre­gate, eighty-sev­en to the Sikar­i­oz eighty-five. The Pock­et Preda­tors, led by Bri­an Stod­dard, fin­ished third, and Clif­ford Sookdeo, the ‘Preda­tors’ MVP, was al­so named the Di­vi­sion 1 Play­er of the league. Crazy 8’s, cap­tained by Ren­nie Mo­hammed, fin­ished in fourth place.

Prizes were al­so giv­en out for the Na­tion­al Men’s and Women’s in­di­vid­ual 9-Ball Cham­pi­onships. Clint Bachan won the Men’s Cham­pi­onship, and Karen Ram­cha­ran won the Women’s ver­sion. This was Ram­cha­ran’s sec­ond na­tion­al ti­tle in as many years, af­ter win­ning the na­tion­al 10-ball ver­sion of the game in 2024.

A full ho­n­our roll can be found at the bot­tom of this ar­ti­cle.

The event was at­tend­ed by the Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Sen­a­tor the Ho­n­ourable David Nakhid, and Di­rec­tor of Sport Ag, Mr Patrice Charles. Mr Charles, who was de­scribed by BSOTT Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer Adri­an Mo­ra as a friend of the or­gan­i­sa­tion, spoke briefly on be­half of his of­fice, and Sen­a­tor Nakhid de­liv­ered the fea­ture ad­dress. Sen­a­tor Nakhid was al­so kind enough to dis­trib­ute the prizes to the ladies who took part in the Na­tion­al Women’s 9-Ball. BSOTT Pres­i­dent Rea­gan Low Chew Tung was ex­treme­ly hap­py with how things turned out and was pleased to see over one hun­dred mem­bers in at­ten­dance.

BOSS 2025 Ho­n­our Roll

Na­tion­al Men’s Cham­pi­onship

1st Clint Bachan; 2nd Zub­hir Sankar; 3rd Damien Bis­nath; 4th Adri­an Mo­ra

Na­tion­al Women’s Cham­pi­onship

1st Karen Ram­cha­ran; 2nd Sal­isha Lochan; 3rd Sh­er­nice Ma­haraj-Leza­ma; 4th Rav­ina Boodoo

Na­tion­al Pool League – Pre­mier Di­vi­sion

1st Unit­ed Stars; 2nd Ri­valz; 3rd Sikar­i­oz Bil­liards Club; 4th Cuetrollerz

Na­tion­al Pool League – First Di­vi­sion

1st Rox­bury Shot Callers; 2nd Sikar­i­oz Bil­liards Club; 3rd Pock­et Preda­tors; 4th Crazy 8’s

Na­tion­al Pool League – Pre­mier Di­vi­sion (MVPs)

Aaron Raghoo­nanan - Unit­ed Stars -

Clint Bachan - Ri­valz

Adri­an Mo­ra - Sikar­i­oz BC

Damien Bis­nath - Cuetrollerz

An­drew Ma­haraj - ‘D’ Un­der­dawgs

Shakar Beep­han -Shoot­ing Stars

Vishaal Singh - Gold­en Arch­es Ti­tans

Bar­ry Ash­meed Syne - The An­ni­hi­la­tors

Play­er of the League (Pre­mier Di­vi­sion) - Aaron Raghoo­nanan

Na­tion­al Pool League - First Di­vi­sion (MVPs)

Akash Poon - Rox­bury Shot Callers

Al­lan Lawrence - Sikar­i­oz BC

Clif­ford Sookdeo - Pock­et Preda­tors

Emilio Smith - Crazy 8’s

Justin Chan - Ago­ra Stingers

Fran­co Her­nan­dez Lucky Sports

Nick­o­las Ram­lakha - JJ Shooterz

Clay­ton Ja­goo - Unit­ed Stars –

Deck­lon Ash­ton - Scotchie’s Nu­bian Kings

Mo­han Moon­sam­my - Dekko All Stars

Edge Ra­moutar - Top Shooterz Krew

Glen Ra­goo - Pan­thers

Vish­nu Teeluck - Ken­ny’s

Steve Ja­groops­ingh - Shoot­ing Stars

Play­er of the League (First Di­vi­sion) - Clif­ford Sookdeo

Spe­cial Cat­e­gories - First Di­vi­sion

Most Break & Runs: Raj Per­sad – Rox­bury Shot Callers; Mikkel Govia – Sikar­i­oz BC

Most Ta­ble Runs: Crazy 8’s Ryan Ram­bal­ly

Most 3-Fouls: Chris Per­sad – JJ Shoot­ers; Valmi­ki Sookdeo – Crazy 8’s; Videsh Dupraj – Pan­thers; Kevin Ma­habir – Top Shooterz Krew

Most Tack­les: Ken­rick Roop­nar­ine – Rox­bury Shot Callers

Most Gold­en Breaks: Ah­mad Shageer– Top Shooterz Krew; Christo­pher Mo­hammed – Ago­ra Stingers; An­tho­ny John – Scoth­ie’s Nu­bian Kings

Spe­cial Cat­e­gories - Pre­mier Di­vi­sion

Most Break & Runs: Aaron Raghoo­nanan – Unit­ed Stars; Clint Bachan– Ri­valz

Most Ta­ble Runs: Damien Bis­nath – Cuetrollerz

Most 3-Fouls: Dar­rell Kaw­al – D’ Un­der­dawgs; Ri­valz - Clint Bachan; Sham Jagerssar – Unit­ed Stars; Lyn­don Sahi­bram – Unit­ed Stars; Raenoll Ramkalawan – Ti­tans

Most Tack­les: Vishaal Singh – Ti­tans

Most Gold­en Breaks: Lyn­don Ramkissoon – D’ Un­der­dawgs

BSOTT would like to thank SporTT for the use of the Aquat­ic Cen­tre and looks for­ward to fu­ture good re­la­tions, as they seek to find a des­ig­nat­ed home for cue sports in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Up next for the Bil­liards Sports Or­ga­ni­za­tion is the Eight-Ball Na­tion­al Pool League, which is sched­uled to start in Au­gust 2025.