BPBL Playoffs Sees Four Games Played on Carnival Weekend

Good evening, I am Paul Lopez with this week’s edition of Sports Monday. It is playoffs time for the Belize Premier Basketball League. Two divisions, two cups, and four teams fighting to make the championship series. In the Toucan Cup finals, the San Pedro Tigersharks took on EZ Investments Dangriga Dream Ballers inside the Belize City Civic Center on Friday night. This was a good one folks. The San Pedro Tiger Sharks saw not two, not three, but five of its players finish the game with double digit points. Jihad Wright led the pack with seventeen points, eight, rebounds and eight assist. He also had four steals.

Tyrell Griffith was good for fifteen points, while Keon Rowland had a total of fourteen points, nine rebounds and two assists. Both Brian White and Malik Hunt finished the game with double, doubles, thirteen points and sixteen rebounds and twelve points and eleven rebounds, respectively. The Tiger Sharks performance in this match was a stark contrast to the Dangriga Dream Ballers’ output. Three players with double-digit points, but Daniel Conorquie and Kirk Smith Junior pretty much carried the entire team with twenty-one points apiece. Smith also had twelve rebounds. Deshawn Brackett was good for twelve points. In the end, the Sharks defeated the Dream Ballers eighty-four to seventy-three points. Game two of that best of three series is scheduled for September thirteenth in Dangriga.

 

On the other hand, the Cayo Western Ballers and the Belize City Thunderbolts have played two of their three matches in the Mayan Cup finals. Game one was played on Friday night inside the Sacred Heart Auditorium. The Cayo Western Ballers pulled off a surprising victory against the Thunderbolts in a match that ended eighty-six to eighty-three. The second match was held on Sunday evening inside the Belize City Civic Center. And this was a different Thunderbolts team that the one fans witnessed on Friday night.

Tyrone Hall came out swinging and delivered eighteen points and eleven rebounds. Victor Evans scored sixteen points and eight rebounds. Glency Lopez was good for fifteen, while Mathew Young finished with a double, double, twelve points and ten rebounds. At the other end of the court, D’von Campbell was on fire for the Western Ballers. He finished with seventeen points and eleven rebounds. Arik Nicholas had twelve points and twelve rebounds at the end of the night. But in the end, the Belize City Thunderbolts won and lives to fight another day. We will continue to follow the series and bring you updates on the league’s division winners, and of course highlights from the championship finals. But until then, that is all we have for you in tonight’s coverage of Sports Monday. Catch you in the next one!