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| This 2009 file photo shows Tivoli Gardens Wizards' Omar Barnes (centre) dousing a member of their management team with champagne, as they celebrated their 85-72 victory over Majesty Gardens. The scenes were no different when the Wizards again beat Majesty in Game Two of the finals, to close out the series on Saturday night. |
Members of the Tivoli Wizards basketball team are celebrating their victory over Majesty Legends, following their victory in Game Two of the Flow National Basketball League Southern Conference Championship final, on Saturday night at the National Stadium courts.
The Wizards defeated the Legends 67-62 to take the best-of-three series 2-0, securing their third consecutive hold on the title.
"We are very happy for this victory because we had to play really hard to achieve it," said Omar Barnes, a senior member of the Wizards team.
"We really wanted to ensure that we retain the title because this will be a big morale boost for us going into the all-island play-off competition," Barnes added.
Andrew Whilby, another senior member of the Wizards' team, was also very happy with his side's victory.
"We are feeling very great to know that we have won this title again," said Whilby.
"My team played really well to win it and so now we are just celebrating and enjoying ourselves," Whilby added.
The Wizards, who led 37-32 at half-time, romped to their victory courtesy of centre Whilby's team-high 16 points and seven rebounds.
The Wizards were outscored 17-15 by the Legends in the third quarter, but they hung on to hold a 52-49 lead at the end of the period.
Whilby received solid support from Barnes (15 points and four assists), Anthony Farquharson (14 points and eight rebounds) and Kirk Ferguson (12 points and eight rebounds).
"We are very happy to know that we have defended our title against one of the top teams in this competition," said Edward 'Ted' Marshall, coach of the Wizards.
"I think that this victory will help our confidence as we look forward to defending our all-island title," Marshall added.
National representative Kemar McLeish was the top scorer for the Legends with a game-high 19 points and eight rebounds. McLeish got good support from captain Baldon Todd (18) and Havando Dunn (12).
"We are very disappointed because we didn't execute our game plan the way we should have done. We allowed them to get too many offensive rebounds and that was one of our main downfalls in this series," said Todd.
"I also thought that we didn't capitalise on their mistakes because every time we cut the lead we allowed them to get back into the game," Todd added.
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