The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net In a fourth quarter which featured three ties and four lead changes, a late run by the No.1 seed led them to a game one win in the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) junior boys basketball championship. The Queen's College Comets kept their undefeated season in tact with a 62-54 win over the Kingsway Academy Saints yesterday in game one of the series at the Kendal Isaacs gym. The Comets trailed 47-45 late in the fourth quarter when they ended the game on a 17-9 run to clinch the win. Edajh Fawkes led the Comets with a team high 22 points while Daejour Adderley finished with 20. Adderley tied the game at 47 with a pair from the line and followed with a steal and fastbreak layup. Fawkes followed with four in a row to give the Comets a 53-47 lead which they never relinquished. Fawkes brought the raucous Comets crowd to their feet in the game's waning moments when he weaved through traffic, ball faked defenders on both sides of the lane and finished with a reverse layup for a 60-53 lead with under 30 seconds left to play. The Saints boasted a high scoring duo of their own as Denzel Whylly and Sebastian Gray combined for 46 points. Whylly, who finished with a game high 25 points, scored 14 in the third quarter alone to bring the Saints back into the game. Gray finished with 19 and gave the Saints their first lead of the game on the opening possession of the fourth. The Comets led 13-8 at the end of the first quarter and threatened to pull away early. Gray would deliver a three-point play to tie the game at 13 midway through the second. However, the Comets would respond with an 8-0 run and eventually took a 25-21 lead into the half. With Gray and Adderley shadowing each other in the third quarter, both Fawkes and Whylly picked up much of the scoring slack for their teams. Fawkes scored 10 in the quarter while Whylly scored 14. His layup after sidestepping a charge tied the game at 41 for the Saints and completed their comeback headed into the fourth quarter. Comets senior girls edge out SAC Big Red Machine 43-41 Alexandria Marshall leads Queen's College in just about every statistical category but it was her key hustle play late in the game which sealed a game one win for the Comets. The Comets edged out the St Augustine's College Big Red Machine 43-41 to open the best of three BAISS senior girls championship series. Protecting their one-possession lead, Marshall saved an overthrown pass to keep the ball in play, allow the Comets to dribble away the remaining time on the clock and prevent a turnover which would have given SAC a final possession to tie or win. She also finished with a game high 20 points while Talia Thompson and Melissa Wong each finished with six. Jada Saunders led the Big Red Machine with 12 points while Kenyoka Ingraham added nine and Lashae Rolle finished with eight. QC opened the game on a 10-0 run with Marshall and Wong showing their dominance early. SAC stopped the run and closed the quarter strong on a 9-3 run. In the second, SAC trimmed the lead to one, 13-12, with 4:45 left to play in the half. The Comets led 23-20 at the half. QC led by as much as 10 in the third on a Marshall jumper for a 30-20 lead with 2:52 left to play in the quarter. The Big Red Machine erased the deficit and closed the period on a run to tie the game at 30 headed into the fourth. Marshall opened the fourth with a layup to give the Comets an early lead. Tied at 34, the Comets went on a timely 5-0 run to go ahead for good. Kerri Bascom's jumper with just over a minute left to play gave QC a 43-37 lead and proved to be enough to keep off a late rally by the Big Red Machine.