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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Matthew Pierre Academy back to defend Momentum title

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Sport Desk
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Defending champion Matthew Pierre Basketball Academy.

Defending champion Matthew Pierre Basketball Academy.

The Matthew Pierre Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my will be back to de­fend its ti­tle in the Mo­men­tum In­vi­ta­tion­al League.

The sec­ond edi­tion of the men’s Un­der-23 bas­ket­ball tour­na­ment is set to ig­nite the courts once again from May 18 to June 16 at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na.

Eight promi­nent teams are gear­ing up to com­pete in the 2024 edi­tion, promis­ing elec­tri­fy­ing match-ups and fierce com­pe­ti­tion. Among the con­tenders are fa­mil­iar faces like the Mal­oney Pac­ers Bas­ket­ball Club and Youth De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme, Spar­tans TT, and New Chap­ter Glob­al Sport Acad­e­my, along with ris­ing chal­lengers such as Roy­al­ty Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my, Point Fortin Vet­er­ans Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my, win­ner of the Un­der-21 di­vi­sion in the South Zone Bas­ket­ball League, Arou­ca New Age Li­ons and Coach KG Elite.

The tour­na­ment, tai­lored ex­clu­sive­ly for young men aged 23 years and un­der, re­mains stead­fast in its mis­sion to el­e­vate the sport by pro­vid­ing a plat­form for emerg­ing tal­ents to shine. With each game, play­ers will have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to show­case their skills, com­pete at the high­est lev­el, and gain in­valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence in a com­pet­i­tive en­vi­ron­ment.

The de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons, the Matthew Pierre Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my, are poised to de­fend their ti­tle af­ter their vic­to­ry in the in­au­gur­al com­pe­ti­tion. How­ev­er, the team from Ma­yaro will face stiff com­pe­ti­tion from con­tenders like the Mal­oney Pac­ers, fresh off their Des­tiny In­vi­ta­tion­al Ari­ma League (DI­AL) Cham­pi­onship win, Spar­tans TT, run­ner-up in the DI­AL com­pe­ti­tion, and New Chap­ter, ea­ger to avenge their run­ner-up fin­ish in the pre­vi­ous edi­tion of Mo­men­tum.

The tour­na­ment for­mat will fea­ture a two-pool round-robin group stage, fol­lowed by a sin­gle-elim­i­na­tion medal round. Teams will bat­tle it out over five week­ends, with games sched­uled on both Sat­ur­days and Sun­days. The semi­fi­nal match-ups will be de­ter­mined by each team’s fin­ish­ing po­si­tion in the pool (AI vs BII and BI vs AII), set­ting the stage for in­tense show­downs as they vie for a spot in the cov­et­ed fi­nal.


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