Bermuda Sports News

Commonwealth Games medal-winner, Antoine Jones has passed

Bermuda’s 10-Pin Bowling has loss of one of its greatest ambassadors. From the age 14, Antoine’s daily life would be centered around bowling at Warwick Lanes Bowling Alley. He gradually moved through the Junior League to the senior ranks and at age 23, made his International debut for Bermuda at the Lee Evans Tournament of the Americas in Miami, Florida.

In 1986, he was a member of Bermuda’s team that won the National Bowling Association (NBA) Team Championships in New Jersey. In 1998, Antoine and teammate Conrad Lister were voted “Male Athletes of the Year”, after they earned the silver medal for Bermuda in the doubles competition at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In singles competitions, he won the 1996 Southern Regional Professional Bowlers Tour competition and placed first in the men’s singles ‘scratch’ event in the Annual Rendezvous Tournament in 2002.

Antoine’s personal bowling stats include two perfect games, a high series of 793 and a high average of 218.

Aside from bowling, “you could not ask for a better friend” stated well-known sports photographer and close friend Ras Mykkal, “He was one person you could count on in good or difficult times, no matter what. He was a no non-sense individual, but a man with a big heart and helpful hands.”

The left-handed Antoine Jones, who ate, slept, and dedicated he life to the sport of bowling in several capacities, is survived by his wife Dianne ‘Bobbie’ Jones and stepdaughter, Ervelle Ingham.

Bermuda Football Loses Star Goal-keeper, Freddy Hall.

Local football fans woke up Sunday morning, April 24, 2022, to the news that St. George’s football team and national goalkeeper, Freddy Hall died after being in a single vehicle accident. Regarded as one of the island’s best goalkeepers, Freddie played professionally in England, Ireland and North America, and was loved by the fans during his three-and-half years at Irish outfit Limerick.

Hall decided to retire from professional football in February 2018, returned to Bermuda, and continued playing football for St George’s, his childhood team.