Kwesi Mugisa, Staff Reporter
LEVEL AT one game apiece, Wolmer's face St. Catherine while Calabar face St. George's College as the cream of the KFC/ISSA High School Southern Conference basketball crop collide in a winner take all showdown at the National Stadium courts beginning at 2:00p.m. today.
In the Under-19s, Wolmer's Boy's almost saw their perfect season grind to a screeching halt when they lost the first game of the series at home to St. Catherine, ending a 10-game winning streak. But faced with elimination last week, the Heroes Circle team rallied from a 19-point second half deficit, to
slip out of St. Catherine with a two-point victory and give themselves another shot at redemption. So they have another chance to lift a title denied them by a dominant Calabar team one year ago.
However, Wolmer's are not the only team that know what it is like to come up second best and St. Catherine were also forced to settle for runner up in the national championships when they played Calabar. It's a fate which St. Catherine coach Lennox Lindo will be hoping to avoid for yet another year. He insists that his team is recovered from last week's letdown and are ready to go again.
"We are ready, we are always ready, we don't really have anything to adjust, we just wish it was a bit earlier," he said.
"It has been a while since the school has lifted a title and it would be really nice for us to go out and win. We will go out there and give it our best today," he added.
However, before the Under 19s take the court, St. George's and Calabar will have to settle their differences in the early encounter. Trailing Calabar with two minutes to go in their season, St, George's fought their way to an eventual overtime series to level the game at 1-1 at home.
With new found confidence they now look to use their momentum to leave Calabar empty handed. But unbeaten until the loss against St. George's, the Red Hills Road team will not go down without a fight.
