Class above the rest

Ruel Ritch (centre, right) controls the ball as he runs past Neil Gordon (centre, left) during the high pressure finals.

Marian Academy held their composure to come from behind and win the Georgetown ‘City’ Confer-ence Championship trophy last Sunday in their match against St Stanislaus College in the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG)/ National Sports Commission (NSC) Schools’ National Basketball Festival finals. Saints seemingly caught the ‘Miami Heat Syndrome’, amassing a 13-point lead with 13 minutes left in the game, but as fate would have it, individual talent eventually failed to out play great team basketball when Marian came back to win the game 59-70.

Saints opened the lead in the final minutes