The Beepat Scorpions will go against the Georgetown Masters in the first of three games planned this evening to resume play in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association(GABA) Bryden’s 2nd Division Basketball League.
The Masters will be hoping to rid themselves of memories of their last match-up in the league in which they fell to an explosive Maccabees side.
This time around the Masters will meet the Beepat Scorpions who were at the wrong end of many off season trades which caused them to lose many of their valuable players.
In the second game of the evening, an all-star Ravens cast including Ryan Stephany, Kevin Lawrence and Ryan Gullen will try to lead their team past Eagles.
In the feature game of the evening, Nets, who are without leading scorer Triston Tullock and Mortimer Williams, will go head-to-head with Legends.
On Sunday, however, there will be another three-league game starting with Maccabees versus Pioneers, followed by Pepsi Sonics taking on the junior elite players and Panthers against the Bounty Farm Colts in the final game of the evening.
Maccabees are flaming hot after coming off an impressive come-from-behind victory over the Masters in which they shot a respectful 59 percent from the field.
Pepsi Sonics, the other team which came off an impressive win against Bounty Colts on the opening night, will be trying to see if they can take the same approach as the junior elite squad which comprises a combination of junior national players from Georgetown and Linden.
The GABA held a special meeting on Thursday to formally address concerns raised by a few clubs over the list of players debarred from the second division league.
GABA president Chris Bowman,said that after the various clubs had made their cases, the only player who had presented a legitimate case for the overturning of his debarring was Casey Hollingsworth of Pepsi Sonics.
Bowman said that Hollingsworth’s case was up for consideration but the decision made on the other players would remain the same as they in some way met the criteria for debarring players according to the guidelines set by the GABA.
He also mentioned that most of the players debarred were those in the forward centre position that demonstrate the high intensity of play more suited for first division basketball.
