Howard Walker, Staff Reporter
Calabar High's Shamar Keyyl (left) dribbles in a match-up against Wolmer's Boys' Dale Copeland during their KFC/ISSA Under-16 High School Basketball all-island match at the Stadium courts yesterday. Calabar won 60-26. - WINSTON SILL/FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER
FOUR PLAYERS from St. Catherine High School's basketball team were in a three-car accident yesterday, forcing a postponement of their KFC/ISSA national basketball championship quarter-final clash with Jamaica College (JC).
Javaugn Bailey, considered to be the top schoolboy player, Noel Wright, Ricardo Sutherland and Dwayne Foster were in a taxi that was involved in the accident.
MINOR INJURIES
However, only Noel Wright and Ricardo Sutherland suffered minor injuries. Wright had a swollen elbow and Sutherland had chest pains.
All four players were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure.
Lennox Lindo, coach of the St. Catherine High, said the taxi they were travelling in ran into the back of a car which, in turn, was hit from behind by another car in the vicinity of St. John's Road.
"It was just a minor car accident but they were shaken up. They are just really frightened right now. The rest is just mental stuff," added Lindo.
St. Catherine High, the urban Under-19 champions, are title favourites for the all-island title as a semi-final spot beckons.
They had brushed aside Maldon High of St. James and Belair High of Manchester and were favoured to do the same against JC.
In the other scheduled match, an Under-16 affair, urban champions Calabar thrashed Wolmer's 60-26 with the towering Omari Williams throwing down 27 points and grabbing 29 rebounds.
