SPORTS SECTION E
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2025
Ultimate Champions bring home the title By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
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ahamas Baseball Federation President Clarence McKenzie said he was quite pleased with the way his Ultimate Champions Academy baseball team played at the USSSA War on I-4 Tournament in Plant City, Florida, over the weekend. The Ultimate Champions Sports Academy’s 10-and-under team, comprising of three players from Grand Bahama and the rest from New Providence, defeated the Blitz Baseball from Bartow, Florida, 8-7 to bring home the title. The team consisted of Elisha Thompson, Bruce Russell (GB),
Ten-and-under baseball team defeats the Blitz 8-7 in Plant City, Florida
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McKenzie, who was assisted by SeDale McKenzie, Sean Adderley and Ryan Sands, said the team “showed resilience” after being down 6-2 in the championship and bouncing back to win the title. “I was very proud to see the hard work from the boys paid off,” said McKenzie, who noted that this was just one of the 3-4 USSSA Tournament that the Ultimate Champion Sports Academy
participates in during the year. In Sunday’s championship game, Ultimate Champion rallied from four runs to pull off the win. Ultimate Champions got on the board in the top of the first inning after Munroe was struck by a pitch, and Blitz Baseball 10U committed an error, each scoring one run. Blitz Baseball 10U flipped the game on its
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head in the bottom of the first, scoring five runs on zero hits to take the lead, 5-2. The biggest blow in the inning was an error that drove in two. After falling behind 6-2 in the bottom of the second inning, Dawson Grey homered to right field as Ultimate Champions tied the game at six in the top of the fourth.
AFTER producing what she felt was a productive indoor track and field season at the University of Tennessee, the Volunteers’ junior quarter-miler Javonya Valcourt is eager to see what the outdoor season holds for her. The 20-year-old Olympian closed out her indoor season by competing in both the women’s 400 metres and as a member of the Volunteers’ 4 x 400m relay team. In the 400m, Valcourt finished 12th overall in the preliminaries in 52.31 seconds, which was short of making the top eight to advance to the final and off her lifetime best of 51.78 she ran earlier this year to qualify for the NCAA Championships. She ran out of the second of four heats in lane three, did the first of the twolap race in 23.94 to move into second, but on the last lap, she was dropped to third and finished in that position. Eila Onojuvwevwo, a junior at LSU, took the tape in 51.61 with Rachel Joseph, a junior at Iowa State, coming in second in 51.86, as they both advanced. “I didn’t get the results I wanted in my open 400m, finishing with a time of 52.31 and placing 12th overall, which meant I didn’t advance to the final,” Valcourt said. “Still, I’m grateful to be among the top 16 runners in the country this indoor season and to have earned Second Team All-American honours.”
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WINNINGS WAYS: Ultimate Champions baseball team with their championship rings. Caleb Munroe, Jermaine Clarke, Ace Adderley, Malik Sands, Dawson Grey, Myles Culmer (GB), Michael Wilson (GB), Aamir Alleyne, Kendall Brown and Zahmir Rolle. The team went undefeated in the five games they played in the tournament, beating East Orange Juice 8-5, Southern Squeeze 10U Fort Myers 13-1, Miracles 10U Carolina 10-2 and SWFL Elite Platinum-Holderbach 18-8.
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GEORGETTE ROLLE-HARRIS LIKES THE DIRECTION THE HIGH SCHOOL GOLF NATIONALS IS HEADED IN By BRENT STUBBS Chief Sports Editor bstubbs@tribunemedia.net GEORGETTE RolleHarris said she likes the direction the Bahamas Golf Federation’s National High School Golf Tournament, sponsored by Capital Union Bank, is headed in. Since its inception, RolleHarris’ Fourteen Clubs Golf Academy has been organising the event for both private and public schools. This year, teams
from Eleuthera and Andros also participated. “There was a lot of excitement,” said RolleHarris as she closed the chapter of the 2025 edition of the tournament. “To have these players come out here and represent their schools is amazing. The level of confidence that we see, even with new players coming into the game, and the willingness to learn a new sport,
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THE SPORTS March CALENDAR TRACK NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH all of the schools having completed their track and field championships, the focus of attention will now switch to the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s National High School Track and Field Championships. Under the theme: “Breaking Limits,
Achieving Greatness,” the three-day event is all set to be held from Thursday to Saturday at the original Thomas A. Robinson Track and Field Stadium with athletes with special disabilities competing in their own categories along with the various age group competition. The Ministry of Sports in conjunction with the
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