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Belize’s Boys Failed To Advance
posted (June 21, 2011)
Last week, we were giving you daily updates on Belize's under 16 basketball team as they participated in the Centro Basket tournament in Mexico City.

But we're none too eager to share the weekend results because the team came in fourth and failed to qualify for the next round.

The team went one and two in its last three games, losing to Mexico and El Salvador, each by seven points, while they beat Guatemala by 72 points.

But that wasn't good enough - as it earned Belize fourth place. Belize was heavily favoured in its last game against El Salvador but the team's leading scorer and the tournament's top rebounder Brian White could not play any significant minutes because he woke up on game day with an acute stiff neck. Had Belize own that game, it would have advanced to the America's Under 16 Championship - which no Belize team at any level has ever made it to.

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