{"id":2421,"date":"2019-06-19T21:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2019-06-19T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:03:40","slug":"saints-titans-take-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2421","title":{"rendered":"Saints, Titans take leads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sav Elite Titans and the rampaging Falmouth Saints each\nhold 1-0 leads after the opening games in the Western Basketball Association\n(WBA) Elite League playoffs played at the Montego Bay Cricket Club.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titans and Saints\nsnatched 1-0 leads thanks to impressive wins in the double header which started\n40 minutes later than scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saints, with a\nruthless showing, pulled off the first big win of the evening, charging past\nthe defending champions Catherine Hall All Stars, 76-55, in a dominant display\nfrom start to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a close match\nin the early stages with both teams trading scores, but it was Saints who\npressed slightly ahead at the halfway stage 30-28, although All Stars won the\nsecond quarter 18-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Saints,\nplaying their usual fast game and capitalizing off swift fast breaks, opened up\na massive 29-16 third quarter score, restoring their stroll to victory, and\ncompleted the canter with a final quarter 17-11 scoreline as the All Stars\nfaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicholai Brown, who\ndelighted the crowd with his acrobatics and also stuffed home a dunk which sent\na buzz through the fans, top-scored with 21 points and 13 rebounds for the\nwinning Saints, while Michael Johnson added 21 and grabbed 8 rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the All Stars,\nDwayne Johns, who missed the opening quarter, led the scoring with 17 points,\none more than Craig Dorman who tallied 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big man down low\nin the paint for the All Stars, Kurt Dorman, ended with 12 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the evening\u2019s\nother affair, Sav Titans recovered from a very sluggish start to outgun\nWarriors by a narrow one-point margin, 66-65. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titans trailed by\nseven at the close of the opening quarter (16-23), but then followed it up with\na sensational scoring of their own, and some tight defensive displays along\nwith lax shooting by the Warriors team, which went scoreless for more than five\nminutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titans, in\nsharp-shooting form and allowing nothing in their third, restricted the\nWarriors to just 8 points in the second quarter and went into the halftime\nbreak, up 39-31. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warriors went on a\ncharge at the start of the second half sinking 15 points to their opponent\u2019s\n10, as they closed to within three of Titans going into the fourth and final\nquarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the eventual winners survived the onslaught and\nheld on for the points, though outscored 19-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warriors, led by National player Levar Rose and packed with\na wealth of youth stars and former All-Island champions, pushed all the way in\nthe closing stages, but just could not clinch the winner against a determined\nTitans, going on to take the 1-0 advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelmar Bromfield, with a gam-high 26 points and Dylon\nHodges, 15 and 11 rebounds, led the scoring charge for the winners Titans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tafari Vassell with 17 points and Rose with 16 scored most\npoints for the Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saints, with a ruthless showing, pulled off the first big win of the evening, charging past the defending champions Catherine Hall All Stars, 76-55, in a dominant display from start to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[612,1313,801],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-elite-basketball","tag-titans","tag-western-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}