Kwesi Mugisa, Staff Reporter
Ardenne High's Alwane Thorpe (right) breaks away from Excelsior's Keon Braderick in action from the KFC sponsored ISSA High School Basketball Southern Conference last Friday. Excelsior won the encounter 62-41. - JUNIOR DOWIE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
RED-HOT St Jago shoot for their fifth consecutive win of the 2005 KFC sponsored ISSA High School Basketball season when they travel to Meadowbrook High to match up with the home team in a fixture scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today.
Not a lot has gone wrong for the team from St. Catherine, so far this season and come today they will be looking to go into the Christmas break with a perfect record. With two wins away and two victories at home, the Jago team has been able to win regardless of where they play. It will be a very tough ask for a Meadowbrook team that sports a 1-2 record to hand them their first loss of the season.
"Right now I don't think that we are where we should be mentally and it will be very hard to beat such a tough St. Jago team. Nonetheless, we will go in fighting," remarked Meadowbrook coach Greg Smith.
"We were confident that we would have won the Calabar game. The guys fell into a slump in terms of their confidence, but hopefully we can rebound against St. Jago tomorrow," he said.
St. Jago remain the only unbeaten team in the Southern Conference.
ARDENNE LOOK TO REBOUND
In today's other game, Ardenne will look to pull themselves back to a .500 record, when they travel to Jose Marti. Ardenne go into Jose Marti with a 1-2 record and are coming off a two-game losing streak. But Jose Marti's results have not been a whole lot better as they host the encounter with a 1-4 record and are coming off a huge 62-43 loss to Jamaica College at home. In fact, the only wins for both teams this season have come at the expense of winless Campion. Despite this fact Ardenne coach Basil Barrett believes that the fixture is a golden opportunity for his team to get its season back on track.
" We went back to the drawing board and did some work on the basics and we are definitely looking to win that game," Barrett said.
" We had a team meeting on Wednesday and we came to the conclusion that we needed to win the game - a 2-2 record still keeps us pretty much in the hunt for a spot in the play-offs," he said.
