SPORTS SECTION E
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2025
Queen’s College Comets win title By TENAJH SWEETING Tribune Sports Reporter tsweeting@tribunemedia.net
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ast season the Queen’s College Comets had to watch in disappointment as the St Augustine’s College (SAC) Big Red Machine relished in championship glory to close out the 2024 Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) Track and Field Championships. One season later, the Comets got their revenge in emphatic fashion to derail the Big Red Machine and emerge as the 2025 BAISS Track and Field champions. The Comets had a strong meet from start to finish, leading from day one to three, to wrap up with a
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painful for us. It was a dramatic finish to the end last year and it was close and has been for the last couple years so this year we knew we had to do it. We didn’t execute last year, we gave
Paul Greene and Penmen repeat as champions By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net GRAND Bahamian Paul Greene helped the second seeded Southern New Hampshire University Penmen to their second consecutive Northeastern 10 Championship Tournament title. Greene, in his senior year, scored 18 points, shooting 5-for-18 from the field and 1-for-3 from behind the three-throw line and 7-14 from the free throw line, to go along with three assists and a pair of rebounds and steals in their 72-71 overtime victory over the fifth-seed Pace University Setters. The 6-foot, 6-inch forward also ended up with 13 points and had a careerhigh matching six assists and two steals. He finished with an average of 21.7 points per game and 12.7 rebounds to earn the most outstanding player and named to the All-Championship team. Senior Kurtis Henderson canned the game’s winning basket on a three-pointer with 0.3 seconds on the clock in the extra period
it to them, but we did the job this year,” he said. The Comets dominated five out of the eight age divisions to conclude the
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VICTORIOUS: A Queen’s College Comet raises the school flag in celebration on Friday (day 3) after they won the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) Track and Field Championships. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr to avenge last year’s narrow loss to the Big Red Machine and gave special credit to athletes that displayed great school pride. “They painted the track red last year and that was
on Saturday in front of an electric crowd at the Stan Spirou Field House. Henderson finished with six points, five steals and three assists. However, junior Royce Williams led the attack with 21 points, three assists and a pair of rebounds and steals and Jhaml Fricas also had 18 points with three rebounds. Southern New Hampshire has now won 12 of its last 14, including nine of 10 and eight straight. SNHU improves to 29-16 (.644) in its 20th appearance in the NE10 Championship and captures its fourth NE10 title (2013, 2016, 2024) – as well as its second consecutive – in its seventh trip to the finals (2003, 2004, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2024). Southern New Hampshire is the seventh repeat NE10 Champion and first since Bentley in 2007 and 2008. The Penmen are the first team to play in the NE10 finals in back-to-back years since the University of New Haven in 2019 and 2020, as well as the first program to host consecutive NE10 title tilts since Bentley in 2007
By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net A DREAM envisioned in his mind a decade ago when he started playing finally became a reality when Alexander ‘Alex’ Eneas signed a professional baseball contract with the New Yorks Mets’ organisation on Saturday night. The latest Bahamian signing for the 17-year-old took place at the Ink Bar in Palm Cay before his family, friends, the MaxD programme, Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis, former PM Perry Christie and his pastor Mario Moxey. Elvis Rios, the international scout for New York, was on hand to conduct his first signing in the Bahamas with MaxD, headed by Greg Burrows Jr. It was in December that Rios was given the added responsibility of recruiting players from the Bahamas and he immediately got the process started with MaxD. “We came here to scout out the talent in the Bahamas” Rios said. “We kept in contact with MaxD. And now it’s official. We came back for the signing.” Signing his contract with his parents Suzy and Timothy Eneas in front of the MaxD backdrop, Eneas said it was a long journey, a long process, but he knew that he was doing something for a reason and that was his signing. “God came through for me and I’m more than blessed. I’m happy,” Eneas said. “It’s been a journey. It’s been a long time coming.” When he got the news that the signing was going to take place on Saturday, Eneas said he was blown away. “My family put a lot
SAC 2nd, Temple Christian third winning total of 1,344 points. Queen’s College celebrated their first BAISS crown since 2019 and claimed just their fourth track and field championship in the school’s history. The Big Red Machine had to settle for second place this time around with a total of 1,299.50 points. The Temple Christian School Suns started and ended the three-day meet in the third position with 541 points. The neck-and-neck battle between the sister Anglican Schools was won by St John’s College. The Giants wrapped up the meet in fourth at 382 points and the St Anne’s Blue Waves dropped down to fifth place at 271 points. QC bead coach Everette Fraser was all smiles as he spoke about QC’s wire-towire performance at the inter-school track and field championships. “We are feeling great right now. We are feeling good and everybody is excited and happy. This has been a long three days of competition between us and the other school and if we slipped for just a second we would have lost. We had to tell the kids to stay focused and sometimes it may not go the way we want it to go but we have to keep on going and that’s how we did it. We just kept on fighting,” he said. Coach Fraser admitted that it felt awesome
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‘COACH YO’ AND OLE MISS REBELS ARE ELIMINATED By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THE run in the 2025 Southeastern Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament for Grand Bahamian coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin and her University of Mississippi Lady Rebels ended on Friday night in Greensville, South Carolina. The unranked Lady Rebels, coming off an impressive second round victory on Thursday night
over the Mississippi State Bulldogs, couldn’t sustain their intensity when they needed as they lost 70-63 to the second ranked University of Texas Longhorns at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. “I thought tonight was an incredible game. You saw two teams who played incredibly hard. You wouldn’t think that one of them was unranked, especially when we’re playing the number one ranked,”
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THE SPORTS March CALENDAR GRAND Bahamian Paul Greene with his team award. and 2008. SNHU captures back-to-back conference crowns for the first time since 1997-98 and 1998-98 when it was a member of the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC). In addition to being named the 2025 NE10 Championship Most Outstanding Player, Greene also joined Williams and Fricas on the NE10 AllChampionship team. Greene notched 21.7 points on 45.3 percent (2453) shooting from the floor, 12.7 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game over the
three contests of the NE10 Championship. Greene’s double-double is his 20th of the season, as well as his 12th in the last 17 games, eighth in the last 10 and third straight. With the NE10’s Automatic Qualifier in hand, the Penmen will await the seeding for the NCAA Championship, which took place late last night. Greene, a business major, is the son of Paul ad Shantel Greene. He is a former member of the St George’s Jaguars basketball team, coached by Darryl Sears.
SWIMMING LAST CHANCE CARIFTA MEET BAHAMAS Aquatics has announced that its Last Chance Meet for swimmers wishing to qualify for the 2025 CARIFTA Swimming Championships will be held over the weekend of March 14-15 at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex. The event is open to all Bahamas
Aquatics-registered swimmers who have previously competed in a Bahamas Aquatics competition. Swimmers who have not competed in a specific event previously will not be allowed to register for that event. (No Time Entries will not be accepted for this meet). The first session is scheduled for 6pm on
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