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Freeport, Bahamas - (The Tribune) The Tabernacle Baptist Falcons celebrated through the streets of Grand Bahama in a victory motorcade on Friday.

The Falcons of Tabernacle Baptist Christian Academy are the reigning basketball champions of the Hugh Campbell Basketball Tournament that was held New Providence at the Kendal Isaac Gymnasium on February 21.

This is their second consecutive win and the sixth time that the Falcons have won the Hugh Campbell championship title.

The win was an inspirational one for the team, which lost one its team members, Shaquille Hinds, who collapsed and died during basketball practice in January.

A special assembly was held at the school on Friday to celebrate the outstanding accomplishment. Motivational speaker Michael Pintard addressed the principal, administrators, teachers and students.

At 12 noon, the players, students and parents participated in a motorcade from the school to Port Lucaya and to downtown.

Cecil Thompson, Deputy Director of Education, commended the team for its outstanding record of wins at the tournament.

"Tabernacle Baptist Academy has the unique distinction of being the only school in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas that has ever won six Hugh Campbell Basketball Championships," he said.

Mr Thompson said that many other senior basketball teams from Grand Bahama - the former Hawksbill High, Grand Bahama Catholic High, Eight Mile Rock High, and Jack Hayward High - have dominated the tournament over the past 28 years by winning more than 20 championships.

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Photo: Derek Carroll

Photo: Derek Carroll

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