Sports

The Abaco Youth Football Association (AYFA) drew their fourth season of youth flag football to a close with an exciting Championship series featuring three age groups, which also saw a first time winner in the Junior Division and the first repeat Champions in the Senior Division.

The Abaco Basketball Association (A.B.A.) is on the move not only on Abaco. A basketball team from Abaco travelled to Grand Bahama to participate in the Grand Bahama Christmas Shake Down Basketball Tournament on Dec. 16-17.

The Abaco Billiards Association was recently formed with a view to organizing the sport to play across the island, nationally and internationally and seeing it grow in popularity.

The Abaco Judo Club brought another successful competition year to an end in November with two of the club’s members competing at the 16th Barbados Invitational Tournament which was held in Bridgetown.

Abaco is soon to host its first-ever official PGA Tour-sanctioned event. The Web.com Tour, in conjunction with The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and bd Global, LLC, announced that The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic will be held at The Abaco Club the week of January 19-25, featuring a 132-player field and $600,000 purse, with the winner receiving a $108,000 first-place prize.

Representing Abaco in this year’s Bahamas Softball Federation (BSF) National Round Robin Tournament were the 5 Star Ag & Turf Bulldogs and Major Pains. Sponsored by BTC, the tournament took place November 4-6 at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex in New Providence.

The Abaco Schools Sports Association’ season started with volleyball with the first boys and girls games played on September 26 at the Agape Christian School’s Grace Gymnasium.

The Abaco Softball Association closed out its 2016 softball season during the latter part of October.

The first North Abaco Championship was organized by North Abaco's Administrator, Whelma Colebrook, who assembled school athletes from all the communities of North Abaco for a series of championship games. The Opening Ceremony was held at the Treasure Cay Primary School on Friday, September 16. Games were held later that night and continued on September 17 and 18.