Spartans move up in Barbados Baketball
Victorious Spartans. Fourth from left with the No. 23 vest is Theo Greenidge. Photo by George Alleyne
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Caribbean Life, S BQ eptember 20-26, 2019 47
By George Alleyne
Guard Theo Greenidge
scored a game-high 29 points
to ensure Spartans beat
Blackbirds 86-76 and catapult
his team into the Barbados
Amateur Basketball Association’s
(BABA) Premier League
for the first time.
Playing at the Wildey Gymnasium
in the First Division
final playoff game last week,
Greenidge pulled out all the
stops to help extract the
Spartans from a 19-22 deficit
at the end of first quarter and
ensured that his side never
again trailed until eventual
victory.
BABA’s First Division is
ranked one tier below the
prestigious Premier League,
into which the Spartans have
been unable to enter by winning
the First Division and
moving up in the relegation
promotion scheme that
promotes the lower division
champions and demotes the
League’s last placed team.
“We have been fighting
for a good while now. This
is about six years that we
have been knocking at the
door, getting to the playoffs.
The quarrelling and bickering
seemed to be beating us.
But we finally got that under
control this year,” Spartans
coach Edmund Brathwaite
said.
He however concedes that
now the Spartans will be
dribbling off in the big league
for the 2020 season, changes
are needed to be competitive.
“Now that we are here we
hope to retain those 19-yearold
six-footers whose only
basketball outlet used to be
the town teams. We have to
go shopping as our team presently
has a number of older
guys and I do not know if they
are ready for the pace. We will
have to do some shopping in
the younger crowd.”
Spartans’ second highest
scorer was Philip Harewood
with 22 points, followed by
captain Dale Franklyn at13.
Though the quarter-byquarter
scores will show a
Spartans domination after
the first with leads of 42-34
and 59-48 in the second and
third periods respectively,
they almost blew the game in
the fourth when Blackbirds
reduced their lead to just two
points.
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