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Kali­fa Mc Collin-Lopez and Keon Rus­sell com­bined to lead the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) to vic­to­ry over MIC Tigers to re­tain the Courts Open Knock­out ti­tle in the All Sec­tors Net­ball League at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua on Sat­ur­day.

In the fi­nal of the com­pe­ti­tion which fea­tured 11 clubs, UTT emerged with a hard-fought 30-23 win over the Tigers in the 20-minute-a-half con­test. Two men were al­lowed on the court in this event and they showed up to play, sev­er­al of them mem­bers of the na­tion­al men’s team, which fin­ished sec­ond at the Amer­i­c­as Tour­na­ment last year in St Kitts and Nevis.

Rus­sell was one of them, in fact, he was the “Most Valu­able Play­er” (MVP) for the T&T team and dis­played some of his shoot­ing abil­i­ty to get the win for UTT. The goal-shoot­er con­nect­ed 11 goals from 14 at­tempts and his goal-at­tack Mc Collin-Lopez did well to feed him while pro­duc­ing a match-high 18 in 23 tries.