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Denage Kelly Signs With Butte CC

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – GRAND BAHAMA, BAHAMAS – Another Sunland Stingers basketball star continues the pipeline the program has established with Butte Community College.

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7 months ago

May 9, 2024

10th Year Seniors

College Basketball

Another Sunland Stingers basketball star continues the pipeline the program has established with Butte Community College.

Denage Kelly signed his letter of intent to join the Roadrunners in the fall for the upcoming academic year.

Kelly, a 6’2″ guard, has been a mainstay for the Stingers in recent years as the program has won several titles including the Vitamalt tip-off classic, GBSSAA, Hugh Campbell and most recently the inaguaral best of the best tournament.

Kelly will join a Roadrunners program that includes former Stingers teammates Donell Basden and Jordan Saunders.

Other past stingers to follow the Butte CC pipeline include Rolontae Knowles and Oswald Meadows.

Stingers Head Coach Jay Phillpe called Kelly one of the best players to ever pass through the program.

TRACK & FIELD

On the heels of the BTC World Athletics Relays, Bahamian athletes are back on the individual circuit this weekend in the Wanda Diamond League.

Quarter-miler Steven Gardiner will compete in Doha, Qatar this weekend, the third stop on the Diamond League tour.

Gardiner will run in his second individual 400 of the year after he opened with a 44.45 seconds at the LSU Invitational.

Aiming for his ninth career win on the circuit, Gardiner has had lots of successful moments in Doha with Diamond League wins in 2017, 2018 and gold in the 2019 World Champs.

Gardiner will headline a field this weekend that also includes several competitors on the World Athletics top lists this season.

Botswana’s Luengo Scotch and Bayapo Ndori, who led their country to a 4×4 win at the World Relays, will also be in the field.

Also in Doha, Laquan Nairn will also compete in the long jump.

He has a season’s best of 7.93 meters.

Nairn also competed in the long jump at the World Indoor Championships where he finished 15th at 7.6 meters.