{"id":17065,"date":"2024-03-05T02:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=17065"},"modified":"2024-03-05T02:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:20:24","slug":"kwakwani-sec-takes-lions-share-at-ybg-challenge-series-and-skills-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/kwakwani-sec-takes-lions-share-at-ybg-challenge-series-and-skills-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwakwani Sec Takes Lion&#8217;s Share at YBG Challenge Series and Skills Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Over the weekend, Youth Basketball Guyana hosted a challenge series and skills competition at the National Gymnasium, where Kwakwani Secondary emerged as the dominant force, claiming the lion&#8217;s share of victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the under 18 category, Kwakwani Secondary showcased their prowess by securing a hard-fought 22-14 victory over Bishop&#8217;s High School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite a stellar performance from Bishop&#8217;s captain Carmelo Man-Son-Hing, who scored 10 points, Kwakwani emerged victorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The under 14 final witnessed Kwakwani&#8217;s youth team outclassing Bishop&#8217;s High School with a convincing 22-13 win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kwakwani&#8217;s Travon Hopkinson led the charge with an impressive 9-bucket performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Kwakwani faced defeat in the under 16 category, falling to Mackenzie High School with a score of 18-12, despite a strong start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the girls&#8217; under 18 final, Kwakwani demonstrated dominance, defeating President College with a resounding 17-4 victory, led by Lanisha Mohammed&#8217;s impressive 10-point contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senior U21 category provided a tough challenge for Kwakwani against University of Guyana Trojan, but MVP Damarcus Adams led the team to a narrow 12-11 victory after trailing at halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition format included 10-minute games divided into two halves, with no substitutions allowed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s event featured 50 teams from 22 schools across regions 3, 4, 6, 7, and 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the skills challenge saw Stephon George emerge as the top 3-points shooter, Tavishti Persaud claimed the title of best free-throw shooter, and Simeon Sinclair won the combined skills contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Youth Basketball Guyana hosted a challenge series and skills competition at the National Gymnasium, where Kwakwani Secondary emerged as the dominant force, claiming the lion&#8217;s share of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17065","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\/17065","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=17065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17066,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17065\/revisions\/17066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}