The start of the 2011 basketball year has been hit by a one-week delay.
President of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) David Patterson yesterday disclosed that the start of the GABF-organised Champion Club tournament has been postponed by a week.
While speaking to Stabroek Sport via telephone, Patterson revealed that the tournament has been rescheduled to January 29, from its original January 22 start date. “We have a slight delay in commencement of the tournament on the twenty-second, so we said let’s wait a week until the end of the month,” he explained.
Patterson stated that the GABF is recruiting some of the best basketball clubs in the country to participate in the tournament. The clubs will be drawn from Berbice, Linden and Georgetown and Patterson explained that they will have to be recommended by the Georgetown, Linden and Berbice sub-associations, following which they would receive notification. Eight teams are expected to compete.
The tournament, which is the first of its kind hosted by the GABF, is aimed at identifying the top basketball club in the country and is intended to become an annual event.
It is scheduled to be contested at two venues in a “Home” and “Away” format, with games being hosted at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) basketball court in Linden (if rehabilitation works to the venue are completed in time for the start of the competition).
