Anthony Mahler Mundialito Back for 2024 Closing Season

Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. The Inter-office Basketball Leagues is winding down with its 2024 finals series. Tuff E Nuff is taking on Police in a best-of-five series for all the marbles. The first game of the series was played on Friday night inside the Belize City Civic Center. Tuff E Nuff played in their signature black jerseys while team Police wore black and white.

 

 

 

Griffith, big on the inside with the first two points of the match for Tuff E Nuff. Moments later, Belisle at the other end with a huge three-point shot and he draws the foul. Belisle would go on to miss the free throw. Tuff E Nuff went into the second quarter with a double-digit lead, securing twenty-points in the first quarter to their opponents’ ten points.Rivers using his size advantage to get inside and make the layup for Police. Late in the second quarter, Brown, for Police, exploits a weakness in Tuff E Nuff’s defensive lineup to get the layup and the foul. He went to the line and made the free throw. Team Police scored twenty points in the second quarter, to their opponents’ fifteen points. So, the first half ended with a score of thirty-seven to thirty, in favor of Tuff E Nuff.

 

After the halftime break, Tuff E Nuff came out of the locker room with fire in their eyes and ice in their veins. Valley with the long range three, extending his team’s lead.Rowland late in the third quarter worked his way through Ramos and Augustine managed to get the ball into the bucket over an airborne Williams. Rowland again, this time from the three-point line with another big shot for Tuff E Nuff. He finished his third quarter run with a fast break from the other end of the court that translated into a layup on the buzzer. Tuff E Nuff won game one with a score of seventy-two points to team Police’s fifty-five points. Game two will be played on Friday.

 

From basketball we move into some football action. One of the most anticipated football tournaments in the city, the Anthony Mahler Under Thirteen Mundialito Tournament, is back with its 2024 closing season. We were out at Berger Field on Saturday to catch two of the four matches played. The first was between Ebony Lake and Reality Youths. The match ended one goal to zero, in favor of Ebony Lake. It was an auto goal caused by miscommunication between the goalkeeper and his teammate. That one went in off a header from a Reality Youths player. But a goal is a goal, and a win is a win.

 

And the second matchup we covered was between the opening season’s sub champions, the Ladyville Rising Stars and Phoenix F.C. This one quickly swung in the Rising Star’s favor with this kick in front of the goal from Nigel Hulse at the fourth minute.Here in the second period Kent Noralez gets the assist inside the penalty box, and he makes it count. Another beautiful play here from Rising Stars as the ball is placed for Noralez off the head of his teammate. That’s goal two for Noralez. He finished the match with a hat-trick. Ladyville Rising Stars won the game, six goals to zero.

 

And finally in tonight’s coverage of Sports Monday, a delegation from Belize traveled to Playa Del Carmen last week to compete in the eighth Copa de Revolucíon Games in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Let’s look at some of the results from that tournament. In Shot Put, Gina Tejeda secured a gold medal.

 

 

 

In the open male one-hundred-meter dash, Fred Usher Junior secured the gold medal with a new competition record of ten point thirty-seven seconds. Usher also won the silver medal in the two-hundred-meter sprint. Donovan Grinage Junior secured two silver medals, one for Long Jump and the second for Shot Put.

 

 

In the under eighteen female races, Nyasha Harris displayed dominance in the one hundred and two-hundred-meter dash. Harris won gold in both races. Jaeden Williams added to the gold medal victories with a win in the under-fifteen long jump and one-hundred-and-fifty-meter race. In total the delegation brought home sixteen medals, including six gold medals, seven silver and three bronze medals.

 

 

Well folks that is all we have for you in tonight’s coverage of Sports Monday. Catch you in the next one.