17 July 2006
NIGERIA : Ebun Comets, Dodan Warriors pick Vmobile B/ball finals tickets
By Patrick Omorodion
Ebun Comets basketball club have regained their reputation as a strong force in the country’s basketball as they made a clean sweep of games played at the Atlantic Conference of the Vmobile Premier Basketball League decided at the Indoor Hall of the National Stadium in Lagos between Friday and yesterday.
Also yesterday, youthful Dodan Warriors stopped the ambition of league leaders, Union Bank of Lagos, winning 87-79 to pick the second ticket of the Conference for the finals. Warriors who lost their second game on Saturday 64-71 to Comets thus finished second following their 70-68 victory over Islanders on Friday.
Comets started their return to the top with an overtime blow out of the troubled Union Bank of Lagos, pricked by some management decisions, with a slim 78-76 victory after the bankers had stream-rolled into a 15 point lead during the game.
With 20 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Ayo Bakare boys took the lead with a three pointer that left scores at 62-61. They however failed to wrap up the game before it went into overtime after they had ended the quarter at 65-65.
On Saturday Comets secured the ticket for the finals even with a game left as they handed Alex Owocho tutored Warriors a 71-64 defeat while Islanders who also lost their first match to Dodan Warriors 68-70 on Friday thus missed the play-offs even before their game against Comets yesterday which ended 47-43.
Fans who thronged the venue of the play-offs yesterday were shocked to see Union Bank who had promise of lifting the League crown flounder when it mattered most. Signs that they may not do much at the play-offs showed last Friday when the players uncharacteristically trekked into the stadium without their official bus.
The Vmobile Play-offs train now moves to the Savannah Conference in Kaduna where four clubs, Kano Pillars, Plateau Peaks, Bauchi Nets and Niger Potters will battle for three days beginning Friday for the remaining two tickets for the finals next month.
Ebun Comets basketball club have regained their reputation as a strong force in the country’s basketball as they made a clean sweep of games played at the Atlantic Conference of the Vmobile Premier Basketball League decided at the Indoor Hall of the National Stadium in Lagos between Friday and yesterday.
Also yesterday, youthful Dodan Warriors stopped the ambition of league leaders, Union Bank of Lagos, winning 87-79 to pick the second ticket of the Conference for the finals. Warriors who lost their second game on Saturday 64-71 to Comets thus finished second following their 70-68 victory over Islanders on Friday.
Comets started their return to the top with an overtime blow out of the troubled Union Bank of Lagos, pricked by some management decisions, with a slim 78-76 victory after the bankers had stream-rolled into a 15 point lead during the game.
With 20 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Ayo Bakare boys took the lead with a three pointer that left scores at 62-61. They however failed to wrap up the game before it went into overtime after they had ended the quarter at 65-65.
On Saturday Comets secured the ticket for the finals even with a game left as they handed Alex Owocho tutored Warriors a 71-64 defeat while Islanders who also lost their first match to Dodan Warriors 68-70 on Friday thus missed the play-offs even before their game against Comets yesterday which ended 47-43.
Fans who thronged the venue of the play-offs yesterday were shocked to see Union Bank who had promise of lifting the League crown flounder when it mattered most. Signs that they may not do much at the play-offs showed last Friday when the players uncharacteristically trekked into the stadium without their official bus.
The Vmobile Play-offs train now moves to the Savannah Conference in Kaduna where four clubs, Kano Pillars, Plateau Peaks, Bauchi Nets and Niger Potters will battle for three days beginning Friday for the remaining two tickets for the finals next month.
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hello,i am basketball coach of women here in Europe,two girls who said palyed for the Comets there offer their services to us but we cannot find any background of them,names are Sheila Vicente and Castellano Diaz,can you give some information about them,thank you
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