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Goodnight and welcome back to another edition of Sports Monday. I am Paul Lopez. Let’s jump right into it folks. The biggest basketball match of the year, to date, went down inside the Belize Civic on Friday night. It was all action and no-nonsense when Tuff eNuff clashed with Central Health/Customs in the first of three final matches. Both teams have their eyes set on that Inter-Office Basketball Championship ring and the right to be called the best of the best for 2022. This is four minutes into the third quarter, Kevin Hamilton drives to the rim, takes the hard foul and he gets the and-one. On the other end of the court, Glency Lopez was double teamed, leaving Nicholson open for the easy bucket. Big play here for Central Health, Nicholson attempted the three pointer, misses, Glency jumps out of frame to keep the ball alive, passes it to Michaels, who passes it right back to Lopez at the three point line, and he banks it, much to the crowd’s delight. Kevin Hamilton making light work of the assist from Arana, a bad play leads to a turnover on the other end of the court, Arana again to Hamilton, but a quick hustle from Lopez leads to the block. At the end of the third, Tuff eNuff was leading by six points. They would balloon that lead to thirteen points in the first four minutes in the fourth quarter, allowing Central Health/Customs to score only two points. And here again, with three defenders on him, Glency Lopez puts his body on the line for his team to make the layup. But, Tuff eNuff Captain Francis Arana quickly returned the favor with a three-point shot, a two-point basket for Michaels on the other end, and Kevin Hamilton with a little razzle dazzle around two defenders to the basket. The match ended at ninety-one to eighty points in favor of Tuff eNuff.