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Grand Champions: Cummings Lodge Secondary displays the hardware of a perfect 14-0 along with a commanding post season run of 3-0 to emerge as the overall Champions of the GSSBA inaugural playoffs. (A Clairmonte Marcus Photograph)Cummings Lodge Secondary School (CLSS) capped a perfect season and flawless post-season run with a commanding 70-64 win against Linden Technical Institute (LTI) yesterday to become the grand-champions of the inaugural Guyana Secondary School Basketball Association’s Playoff.

Before the game, the Cummings Lodge team had boasted of what might possibly be the most outstanding win-streak in school basketball during the last decade as they had won an unprecedented 16 games.

The LTI players and the many supporters that accompanied that team however, did not seem to be intimidated by this record and their hyped-up behaviour even during the warm ups, seemed to have been born of confidence more than bravado……


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