Basketball
The Anguilla basketball travelled to Antigua to participate in the 2013 L.I.B.A tournament on the 11th December. The team played hard and competed well finishing 3rd in the tournament. Teams who competed were; Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, BVI and Anguilla. The team finished with 2 wins and 2 losses, both loses against Antigua and Tortola. Although it was a total team effort the outstanding performers for Anguilla were Rick Browne and Daury Herbert on offence and Javille Brooks showed that he can be impactful on both sides of the court. The team received some positive words from officials and fans for showing that in little Anguilla there is a lot of talent that needs assistance to take it to another level. We want to encourage the team to continue exceeded all their expectations and even more success in the next L.I.B.A tournament.
Football
On Saturday we had a festival at the football stadium. There were stations set up where kids went from station to station testing their skill.
On Sunday there was 2 matches played. In match one, the Attackers FC defeated the Salsa Ballers FC 2-0
Game 2, was setting up to be a good game before the match was interrupted due to generator issues. The game at the time was tied 0-0. This game is scheduled to continue on the 11th January which is the beginning of the season.
Cricket
The 2013 Windball tournament came to a wet finish on Sunday. The third place game was forfeited to the grassroots teams because GT Blazers did not show up.
In the finals which were highly anticipated between the Point United and Deadly Force team, Point United batted first and in the 14th over they were 89 for 7 before the rain abandoned play. The teams split the championship cash prize.
The standings were
1st Point United/ Deadly Force
3rd Grassroots.
Garvey Lake took most of the prizes (most runs, most sixes, highest score, team mvp, tournament mvp)
Michel Morton (most wickets)
Jane Smith (most runs for female)
Nova Romney (most wickets female)
Team mvp”s
Deadly force – Carlo Gumbs
Grassroots- Jaydel Gumbs
Lucians United- Hilary hypolite
Point United- Garvey Lake
All Stars- Delano Mussington
The Windball Association would like to thank Digicel for sponsoring this tournament. Special thanks to Percy Thomas for providing the music. Special thanks to the umpires and upbeat radio for bringing coverage for the finals.
– Contributed