Youth basketball showcase at Beausejour this week

Six teams, including the defending champions from Trinidad & Tobago, are battling for youth basketball supremacy at the Beausejour Indoor Facility this week. The third annual Aloysius ‘Loloy’ Daniel Youth Classic Tournament will run until Friday. Catering to Under-18 boys, the tournament is named after a late former national basketballer. Daniel, who had migrated to Canada, passed away after a brief battle with illness. He was well known as a passionate supporter of local sports. “There is a lot of local young talent on display and we’re looking forward to some exciting basketball,” said Kala Guiste, president of the Saint Lucia Basketball Federation, and head coach of East Coast Academy (ECA). “The future of basketball is here and we’re giving them that platform to showcase their skills.” Guiste contends that with the Windward Islands School Games being cancelled this year, this third edition of the Loloy Youth Classic takes on additional significance. “With the Windward Islands School Games not happening it is a key tournament, because most of the kids there would have been in preparation for Windward Islands Games,” said Guiste. “And now they are getting that regional engagement that they would have gotten at Windward Islands. So it...