Week Two in the Race to the Jaguar Cup  

Good evening, welcome to this week’s installment of Sports Monday. I am Paul Lopez brining you the latest highlights from this weekend in sports. We begin tonight with the basketball showdown in Dangriga that gave fans their money’s worth. The EZ Investment Dream Ballers took on the Cayo Western Ballaz. Their mission was to defend home court. Going into this one, the Dream Ballers organization had high expectations for the latest addition to its roster, Pro Import James Milton. Well, he was not disappoint. In his debut match, Milton put up an impressive thirty-two points and finished with thirteen rebounds. He shot sixty-five percent from the field and played a total of thirty-seven minutes and forty-eight seconds, with only two minutes on the bench for the entire match. And, the EZ Investment Dream Ballers needed that kind of contribution from him to ease the blows that were coming from the Western Ballaz’s Arik Nicholas. He finished with twenty-four points and eight rebounds, shooting fifty percent from the field. Nicholas led his team in the third quarter to close a huge deficit and made five of seven from the free throw line. These were the two most outstanding players in this matchup. But, the contributions from Deshawn Brackett for EZ Investment Dream Ballers cannot be understated. He finished with fifteen points, five rebounds and seven assists.  Ultimately, the match was not short of high-flying dunks, nail biting comebacks, sweet victory and bitter defeat. The EZ Investment Dream Ballers came out on top with eighty-eight points, to defeat the Cayo Western Ballers that finished with seventy-six points. In Belize City, the San Pedro Tiger Sharks brought down the Belize City Thunderbolts in a game that ended with a score of one hundred and nine to one hundred and one. As this exciting inaugural season continues, we spoke with the General Manager and Owner of Corozal Cerros Sun, Lupito Acosta. Cerros Suns are newcomers to the league. Acosta told us about his expectations for this season.

 

Lupito Acosta, Owner, Corozal Cerros Suns

“We are looking forward to winning some games, being competitive int his tournament. Our first game we played a couple players were nervous. It was their first experience in an elite tournament. The other experienced players they knew what needed to be done and some of the mistakes we can fix and adjust for our upcoming game this Saturday. We have five Corozal players who it is their first time playing at this level. We have fifteen year old. One of the players has to be a U21. We are very excited to present him to Belize. He was nervous but he scored. He performed so we are looking forward to a better outcome for the next eleven games to come. For us we are not lying to our fans and saying we are coming out to win a championship. We are a new franchise with growing pains. All championships franchise went through their growing pains as well. We have already exceeded as a leadership team and owner.”

 

That is all we have for you in tonight’s coverage of Sports Monday. Catch you in the next one.