By LeVaughn Flynn, Staff Reporter 
St. George's College's Sule Datilo tries to get past Javon Bailey of St. Catherine High during their ISSA/KFC Under-16 national playoff at the Stadium courts yesterday. St. George's won 86-56. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
ST. GEORGE'S College and Calabar High trampled their opponents in the ISSA/KFC Schoolboy national basketball playoffs at the Stadium courts yesterday.
Joscelyn Campbell's 21 points helped St. George's maintain their unbeaten record (10-0) as they thrashed St. Catherine High 86-56 in the junior category.
St. Catherine's Javon Bailey led all scorers with 29 points.
In senior action, the rivalry between Southern Conference champ Jamaica College and Calabar High was on show.
In what resembled a watered-down NBA All-Star game with edge-of-your-seat offence and little defence, Calabar got the better of JC 81-66 in their third meeting of the season.
Although Calabar have a 2-1 advantage over JC for the season, they lost probably the most important game when they were eliminated by JC 77-67 in the league semi-finals.
HIGHLIGHTS
Calabar's Kemar McLeish and Travis Thomas (20 points each) provided the highlights from Calabar while Rohan Cruise (27) and Omar Barnes (25) were in form for JC.
Barnes and Cruise were the only players who showed up for JC, however, as only four players got on the scorer's sheet.
Calabar took control over JC from as early as the first quarter mainly in part to the superb defensive play of Durain Dean.
Dean swatted five shots in the first quarter and helped out in the scoring department with 18 points and grabbed 15 rebounds.
"Dean was excellent," declared his coach, Conroy Ritchie. "We need him to perform at this level every game."
Ritchie said that each game he learns something new about JC and how to prepare his team for future encounters.
"We approach each game differently. We adjust our strategy based on what happened in the last game," Ritchie said.
