Rachael King

It was a busy week­end for teams com­pet­ing in the South­west Zone Bas­ket­ball Com­mis­sion league. Ac­tion took place at the South­west Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Egypt, Point Fortin. New Vil­lage Trend­set­ters have pushed out front al­ready with two wins from as many match­es.

In a low-scor­ing af­fair on Fri­day, Squad­dys be­came their first vic­tim, go­ing down 56-39. The New Vil­lage squad re­turned on Sun­day to whip Reser­voir Hill Hill­tops, 70-48. Ka­reem Prince emerged the top play­er in both match­es, scor­ing 12 points in the open­ing match and re­turn­ing against Hill­tops to net 21. He was well sup­port­ed in both af­fairs by Ker­ron Noel. He post­ed 11 against Hill­tops and 14 on Sun­day.

Cel­e­brat­ing vic­to­ries al­so were Gon­za­les Blaz­ers and Trin­mar Marines, who beat Point Vet­er­ans and SDA All Stars, re­spec­tive­ly. Vet­er­ans were no match for the Blaz­ers unit as they went un­der 69-39. Led by a match-high 32 points from Kwame Ed­wards, the Gon­za­les-based team earned vic­to­ry in its first match af­ter lead­ing 37-19 at the half.

Vet­er­ans at­tempt­ed a come­back pi­lot­ed by Ray­mond Joseph (21) in the third pe­ri­od, outscor­ing Blaz­ers, 13-8, to lessen their deficit to 12 but it was not close to be­ing enough. The Marines gave a bet­ter ac­count of them­selves, re­bound­ing from their open­ing loss 68-56 to La Brea All Stars on Fri­day, to de­feat SDA All Stars by an 11-point (69-58) mar­gin.