Young Legs avenged an earlier season loss to Guns with a 70-66 victory on Saturday in a game that could have swung either way in the closing minutes, but was decided after Guns’ forward, Steve Parillon missed three crucial free throws that would have tied the game with 5 seconds left in the game.

Parillon, who ditched the Young legs camp to play for Guns, threw up a desperation three-point attempt and was hacked in the process sending him to stripe.

“I was really banking on the miss free throws. It was a real close game to see the paper team come back in the game. Them guys ain’t no paper team, them for real,” said Young Legs’ coach Brian “Bash” Brewley.

“They gave us a tough time with the miss-matches they have, but we will get our act together by the time the playoffs come around,” Brewley said. Lyle Duggins and Jason Edwin each had 17 points to lead Young Legs, while Kennedy Bass had 11 points and Trevor Stevens 10.

“Free throws win games and we missed a few, particularly down the stretch that cost us the game,” said Derwin Scatliffe, who took the helm of the team for the first time Guns’ coach since Sports Minister Andrew Fahie resigned.

“We played hard and we felt we should have won the game, but we were always up against it because the referees were not giving us the calls. The referees took us out of our game plan defensively,” said Scatliffe.

Calvert White led Guns with 18 points, 4 blocks, 3 steals and 5 assists, and had support from Randy “ Chino” George who finished with 16 points and Huston Penn 9 points.

In the other encounter on Saturday, Ghetto Mix rallied late in the game for a 88-84 victory against Top Shottas through a 35-20 fourth quarter run.

David Susana and Leando Creque finished with 23 and 18 respectively for the Ghetto Mix, while Leslee Smith sunk 23 points and grabbed a game-high 16 rebounds for Top Shottas.

The first game of the evening saw, defending champs Virgin Gorda Jr. Mystics trouncing triumph over Full Force 75-52.

Jessie Demming and Coy Dore had 14 and 10 points each. Jerrick Maduro was Full Force’s top scorer with 21 points and 12 rebounds. Kishawn Pope added 14 with five steals and five rebounds.

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