Sadi­ki Guer­ra top­scored with 10 points to lead Strak­er Nets A to the 3x3 ti­tle to open the 2025 sea­son of the Kelvin Roberts North Zone Bas­ket­ball Com­mis­sion’s League at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day.

Strak­er A edged Elite Love of the Coach KG Elite club, 19-18, in the fi­nal in the Open com­pe­ti­tion which fea­tured 14 teams.

Guer­ra had sup­port from Chike Au­gus­tine, who was part of the T&T’s 3x3 bronze-medal win­ning team at the 2023 Pan Amer­i­can Games in San­ti­a­go, Chile, Ama­ree Toney and Gari Bar­clay. The quar­tet de­feat­ed Ba­sic Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my, 21-18, in the semi­fi­nals to reach the ti­tle match.

The oth­er fi­nal­ist Elite Love, which in­clud­ed Kern George, Alex­ie Alex­is, JJ Ed­wards-Carac­ci­o­lo and Cris­t­ian Far­num, out­played Strak­er B, 21-12.

The League, which is named af­ter late North Zone ad­min­is­tra­tor Kelvin “Rob­bie” Roberts, for his un­selfish con­tri­bu­tions to­wards bas­ket­ball across T&T, will fea­ture three di­vi­sions - first, Un­der-17 and Over-45.

Strak­er Nets will be back to de­fend its First Di­vi­sion ti­tle af­ter emerg­ing as the win­ner last sea­son in the Zone’s In­vi­ta­tion­al Tour­na­ment. The oth­er teams in the top di­vi­sion are De­fence Force, Spar­tans TT, Coach KG Elite, To­geth­er­ness, Trail­blaz­er, Mal­oney Pac­ers, Roy­al­ty and Ba­sic Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my.

Reign­ing U-17 cham­pi­on Spar­tans TT will aim to re­peat. They will face off against Roy­al­ty, Mal­oney Pac­ers, Ba­sic Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my and Coach KG (CKG) Elite in the U-17 cat­e­go­ry while the O-45 Di­sion will de­but with four teams in­clud­ing Vet­er­ans Sweaters, NFM Vet­er­ans, Mal­oney Vet­er­ans and De­fence Force V.

League ac­tion starts to­day with a dou­ble-head­er in the First Di­vi­sion. De­fence Force will face Roy­al­ty at 7.30 pm and lat­er, Ba­sic Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my meets CKG Elite at 8.30 pm.

Re­sults

Fi­nal

Strak­er Nets A 19 (Sadi­ki Guer­ra 10) vs Elite Love 18 (Kern George 11).

Semi­fi­nal

Strak­er A 21 vs Ba­sic Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my 18

Elite Love 21 vs Strak­er B 12

Match­es

Tues­day (May 27)

First Di­vi­sion

De­fence Force vs Roy­al­ty, 6.30 pm

Ba­sic Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my vs CKG Elite, 8.30 pm

Thurs­day (May 29)

First Di­vi­sion

To­geth­er­ness vs Trail­blaz­ers, 6.30 pm

Spar­tans TT vs Strak­er Nets, 8.30 pm

Sun­day (June 1)

U-17 Di­vi­sion: CKG Elite vs Roy­al­ty, 3 pm

O-45 Di­vi­sion: Vet­er­ans Sweaters vs NFM Vet­er­ans, 5 pm

First Di­vi­sion: Mal­oney Pac­ers vs De­fence Force, 7 pm