Perfect season for Warrens Sports Club Seniors

The Pan American International Insurance Warrens Sports Club Seniors has done what no team in the Barbados Amateur Basketball Association Premier and First Division competitions has ever achieved. They won all of their match-ups for the regular season, including the most recent conquest of the Burger King Clapham Bulls 87-71.

 

Warrens finished the regular season on 13 wins and 0 losses in the league competition, and also played unbeaten in the Knockout competition last month to take their first title. The Bulls played well for their 71 points – one of the higher point totals the Clapham team put up for the season. 

 

Warrens is not known for its defence however, giving up 841 points in the thirteen games played. The strategy has been simple, outscore the opponents.

 

Amassing a total point tally of 1 057, Warrens was more than 150 points ahead of the next team in line. 

 

Former National and Premier League player Peter Alleyne has been the main scorer for Warrens. Against the Bulls, he started the game with five three-pointers to give his team a 32-point first quarter. Bulls put up 20 and so the lead was only 12 going into the second, where they continued to fight and rack up points. They were able to take a one-point advantage in the quarter (18-17) and cut the lead to 11 at the half (49-38).

 

The Bulls battled well, but the Warrens offense was too strong, especially from behind the arc. Alleyne finished with a game high 29 points, including seven effortless three-pointers. 

 

The Jackson-based seniors scored ten threes on the night with even big men Pearson Griffith and Bernard Riley hitting one each. Griffith and Riley had relative control of the paint throughout the game to see them finish with 21 and 12 respectively. Kevin Austin had 12 and Javid Beckles 11 as Warrens   pulled away to complete a perfect unbeaten regular league season, 87-71.

 

For the Bulls Laron Elliot had a great game  with a team-high 24 points. He also had help from Kadeem Douglas with 11, and Jamal Estwick and Christopher Rollins with 10 apiece. John Rudder also added eight points and Hussein Edwards seven.

 

Warrens will have bye in the first round of the playoffs as the top team in the Williams and Stuart (South) Zone. In the Knockout competition they faced two of the top teams in the Grant and Garnes (North) Zone, the Cougars at the semifinal stage; and the Barbados Lumber Company Lakers in the finals. The two teams were dispatched by double digits which shows the strength of Warrens, but there is still one team which will definitely be a handful if the matchup plays out, and that is the Hawks. 

 

The Hawks were poised to have a perfect season as well but fell short in the second last game of the regular season, losing big after an internal melt down by the young players. 

 

The playoffs are set to be exciting and competitive with the crown or double crown up for grabs. 

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