Shockwaves beat Wesleyan, 66 to 60, in the Cayman Islands Basketball Association (CIBA) U19 male tournament on Tuesday, at their court off Eastern Avenue.

It was an exciting match from the start, as Wesleyan led the scoring until the last three minutes of the game however they could not stop the inside rebounding power of the Shockwaves’ Philip Webb, who netted a total of 42 rebounds of which half were on the offensive board.

“This made a big difference because of the inside scoring opportunity presented to him,” said CIBA’s Coach Victor ‘Voot’ O’Garro.

“Wesleyan played a well rounded game with prolific shooting from the outside, but was unable to snatch victory,”

“I am extremely pleased with the improvement of the Wesleyan team, they have shown a lot of improvement over the past year,”  he said.

During the other game of the evening, the Esso Blazers beat John Gray High School 99 to 41.

“The game was a one sided affair with the Blazers powering over John Gray High School,” Coach Voot said.

“John Gray High school is an inexperienced team who are not as experienced as the other clubs who have been playing for a longer time. But they are regular participants of the league and have shown improvement, even though they are still a bit behind.

“John Gray, weak on offence, missed quite a number of easy lay-ins which hurt them tremendously on the offensive end,” Coach Voot added.

Part of the Blazers success was down to great coaching, according to Coach Voot.

“They have been coached very well by Carlon Pastor using his point guard, Brad Gilbrath to get all the other players involved on the offence,”
he said.

The tournament is in the Second Round now, which means that the winners of Tuesday’s match should be going through to either the Playoff or the Final Four, Coach Voot said.

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