{"id":14747,"date":"2023-12-26T17:18:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=14747"},"modified":"2023-12-26T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:18:33","slug":"youth-basketball-guyana-finals-set-for-exciting-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/youth-basketball-guyana-finals-set-for-exciting-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Basketball Guyana Finals Set for Exciting Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In a thrilling culmination of school basketball for 2023, Youth Basketball Guyana is hosting the 12th Titan Bowl finals and the Tertiary Basketball Knockout tournament finals tonight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intense battles promise an exciting conclusion to the basketball season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Titan Bowl XII semifinal on Thursday, Linden Technical Institute (LTI) secured a hard-fought victory against Kwakwani Secondary with a score of 51-48. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kellon Phillips of LTI emerged as the game&#8217;s highest scorer, contributing 20 points and 13 rebounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supported by Minian Vincent (10 points) and Jamol Semple (8 points), LTI dominated the contest, leading 38-21 at halftime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kwakwani Secondary, a former serial winner, fought back admirably but ultimately lost by a narrow margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second semifinal featured Bishop&#8217;s High School facing off against President College, with Carmelo Man-Son-Hing (16 points) and Matthias Arrendell (13 points) leading Bishop&#8217;s High to victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bishop&#8217;s High School will now compete against Linden Technical Institute for the Titan Bowl XII title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Tertiary Knockout league, New Amsterdam Technical narrowly defeated Guyana School of Agriculture with a score of 67-66. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Williams of New Amsterdam Technical was exceptional, scoring 36 points, securing 6 rebounds, and making 5 steals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qwesi Joseph (20 points, 11 rebounds) also played a crucial role for New Amsterdam Technical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another match, the University of Guyana dominated Linden Technical Institute with a score of 87-52, led by Jushawn Bailey (23 points) and Jether Harris (18 points).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournaments, sponsored by Banks DIH LTD, ENET, John Fernandes, and others, promise a thrilling showcase of basketball talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a thrilling culmination of school basketball for 2023, Youth Basketball Guyana is hosting the 12th Titan Bowl finals and the Tertiary Basketball Knockout tournament finals tonight. The intense battles&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14749,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions\/14749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}