SPORTS SECTION E
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Bahamas must-win vs. Cuba By TENAJH SWEETING Tribune Sports Reporter tsweeting@tribunemedia.net he Bahamas senior men’s national basketball team has waited more than two months to seek revenge against Cuba and the United States of America (USA) after suffering consecutive losses in the second window of the FIBA AmeriCup 2025 Qualifiers last November. The host team will have a chance to avenge those
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losses starting tonight with a must-win game against Cuba at 8:40pm in the Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium, to jumpstart the third and final window of the FIBA AmeriCup 2025 Qualifiers for group D. The Bahamas’ head coach John Lucas III expressed the need for the home team to throw the first blow tonight versus Cuba after falling 76-62 in their last matchup. “We were right there. In the
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THE SPORTS February CALENDAR SAILING NATIONAL YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS THE Ministry of Works and Family Island Affairs’ 2025 Sir Durward Knowles National Junior Sailing Championships - a three-day
sailing competition for young sailors - is scheduled to get underway this morning in Montagu Bay and wrap up on Saturday. The event will feature sailors from
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ON THE BALL: Students in action yesterdy on day three of the Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic at the AF Adderley Gymnasium. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
41st Hugh Campbell: Family Island teams pick up wins By TENAJH SWEETING Tribune Sports Reporter tsweeting@tribunemedia.net TEAMS hailing from both Grand Bahama and the Family Islands made their arrival to the capital on day three of the 41st Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic to tip-off their tournament experience on a high note in the morning session yesterday at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.
The Gateway Christian Academy Eagles had a sluggish start to their game against the Eight Mile Rock Blue Jays but managed to pull off their first win of the tournament, 45-28. The Agape Christian Academy Eagles, the Abaco Schools Sports Association (ASSSA) champions, earned a comfortable 52-17 victory in a wire-to-wire win against the Bishop Michael Eldon
School (BMES) Warriors. And The Sherlin C Bootle Dynamic Dolphins prevailed over the South Andros Barracudas 61-55. In the first game of the day, the Patrick J Bethel Mighty Marlins knocked off the CR Walker Knights 56-42. The St John’s College Giants, the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools
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Baseball camp
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EXUMA SAILING CLUB READY FOR JUNIOR NATIONALS By TENAJH SWEETING Tribune Sports Reporter tsweeting@tribunemedia.net HUNDREDS of junior sailors hit the waters this morning at the Montagu foreshore to commence the 2025 Sir Durward Knowles National Junior Sailing Championships. The three-day event will showcase some of the best talent the national sport has to offer at the junior level while continuing to honour the legacy of Bahamian Olympian Sir Durward Knowles. The Exuma Sailing Club, led by head coach Dallas Knowles, took home the overall team winner floating trophy at last year’s competition. Coach Knowles is expecting the club’s top junior sailors to repeat last year’s success. “We have a pretty big team with 16 kids so
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CONCACAF BEACH SOCCER: ‘JUNKANOO BOYZ’ ARE IN TRAINING – PAGE 18