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Team Bahamas Advances to T-20 World Cup Regional Final

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A first for Bahamian cricket, the Senior Men’s National Team advanced to the next step in the qualification process for the International Cricket Council’s T-20 World Cup 2026.

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December 17, 2024

10th Year Seniors

The Bahamas emerged as one of the top three teams at the americas sub regional in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The team concluded the tournament with a 6-2 recorded, highlighted by Monday’s win over Mexico to clinch their position in the next round.

They also had wins over Argentina, Brazil, Panima, Belize and Suriname.

The Bahamas, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands will join Canada in the regional final tentatively scheduled for summer 2025.

The winner of that regional final will join previous americas qualifiers – the United States and the West Indies in the 2026 T-20 World Cup.

Sailing

In Mar del Plata, Argentina – a trio of young Bahamian sailors represented the country at the 2024 Optimist World Championships.

Finley McKinney-Lambert, Lorenzo Laramore and Callum Pritchard were among the field of 227 sailors from 57 countries around the world.

In his second appearance at the event, McKinney-Lambert was the top performer for the team and finished 53rd overall with a total of 295.25 net points.

In race one he finished 11th in the red fleet and in race 6, he was 10th in the blue fleet.

Laramore finished at number 217 with a total of 638 net points while pritchard finished at number 219 with a total of 640 net points.

The team was coached by the Eleuthera Sailing Academy’s Martin Manrique.

NBA

Buddy Hield celebrates his birthday today but much of the storylines surrounding his Golden State Warriors recently have been about roster construction.

After a 10-2 start to the season, the warriors have struggled, falling to 14-11 with last Sunday’s loss to the Dallas Mavericks.

In a last week’s trade with the Brooklyn Nets, the Warriors added Dennis Schroeder to an already crowded back court in the midst of their 2-8 skid.

Schroder is averaging career highs across the board at 18.4 points, 3 rebounds, and 6.6 assists per game.

Hield is averaging 14.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, while shooting 43 from beyond the arc.

The Warriors may not be done making deals in what is expected to be an active market ahead of the NBA’s trade deadline on February 6, 2025.

Golden State has been linked to heat forward Jimmy Butler, Trailblazers center Robert Williams III and others.

Swimming

Team Bahamas concluded the world aquatics short course championships in Budapest, Hungary with another national record.

This time it was Emmanuel Gadson making his mark in the Bahamian record books in the 200m breast.

The Cornell University freshman finished with a time of 2:10.49 seconds, 29th overall in the field.

Gadson also swam the 100m breast, and finished 42nd overall 1:00.42 seconds.

Also for Team Bahamas – Victoria Russell, swam the 50m fly in 28.72 seconds and 50m breast in 33.26 seconds.