In August 2009 Team Belize got a taste of victory despite placing second in the COCABA Championship held in Cancun, Mexico. The team then proceeded to the Centro Basket Tournament in the Dominican Republic a year later where it played its heart out against formidable opponents including Team Venezuela. But Belize was eventually eliminated from the basketball games. And while another COCABA tournament is scheduled for the end of April there is disappointing news coming out of the Belize Basketball Federation this evening. In a press release issued today the organization stated that Belize will not be represented at the COCABA games. According to the BBF the monies it would have spent investing in the men's national team will instead be used to develop younger athletes for the under-fourteen through under-seventeen games to be held in Costa Rica in May.

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