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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Straker, Shak Attack win 'Big 8' openers

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Rachael Thompson-King
2419 days ago
20181018
Christopher Jackson Charles, right, the head coach of Maloney Pacers basketball team gives his charges instructions in a time-out during their game with Straker Nets at the Maloney Indoor Sports Complex, Maloney.

Christopher Jackson Charles, right, the head coach of Maloney Pacers basketball team gives his charges instructions in a time-out during their game with Straker Nets at the Maloney Indoor Sports Complex, Maloney.

Point guard Jef­frey Har­ris was un­stop­pable in help­ing Strak­er Nets keep a clean slate en­ter­ing the "Big Eight" phase of the Bar­ry Stew­art In­vi­ta­tion­al Bas­ket­ball League, de­feat­ing Mal­oney Pac­ers, 78-64 at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na on Tues­day night.

Har­ris scored a match-high 24 points dur­ing the in­tense en­counter which saw Strak­er lift­ed its in­ten­si­ty as the match pro­gressed to com­plete its 11th win on the trot. This was in the sec­ond match of a Group A dou­ble-head­er.

The play was even in the first quar­ter with the scores tied at 19-19, head­ing in­to the sec­ond pe­ri­od. Dri­ven by Har­ris, Strak­er forged ahead to gain an 11-point ad­van­tage, lead­ing 46-35 at the half.

On the re­sump­tion, Pac­ers boost­ed by Shakeil Bertrand (21) and Yan­nick Tap­pin (18) tried to lessen their team's deficit but Strak­er with guard Sadi­ki Guer­ra and cen­tre Al­lis­ter Mar­tin step­ping up of­fen­sive­ly with Har­ris moved fur­ther out front to hold a 65-50 lead at the end of the third quar­ter.

Strak­er was able to main­tain its con­trol in­to the fourth and fi­nal pe­ri­od and sealed the 14-point win in the round-robin phase in the new for­mat.

Guer­ra was sec­ond-best in scor­ing for Strak­er with 19 while Mar­tin added 10 in dom­i­nat­ing the low-post area.

In the open­ing match-up, De­tour Shak At­tack made light work of Po­lice beat­ing them 75-55 in a match that saw the for­mer team lead from the jump-ball.

Much of the win­ner's points came down low with post-play­ers Miguel Williams, top scor­ing with 24 while his team­mate Shawn Lawrence net­ting 17. Small-for­ward Reynold "Pie" Hospedales al­so scored in dou­ble-fig­ures with 12.

For the po­lice­men, for­ward Ronell Win­ter (14), and cen­tres Dex­troy Man­swell (13) and Don Wilkin­son (10) were the main scor­ers in their open­ing match of group A, which con­tin­ues tonight at the Jean Pierre Com­plex in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain from 7 pm.

Ac­tion in Group B was sched­uled to start last night at the South­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Pleas­antville.


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