Basketball in Africa

ASS Sale - RCA Casablanca : 83-68
ASS clearly defeated RCA 79-67, led by Basic Yougoslav who scored 23 points and Masbahi Zakaria who had 22 points and 8 rebounds. Zouita end the game once again in a double digits (15 pts, 10 rebounds) confirming his excellent state of form. Despite the excellent game of Najah Abderrahim (20 points, 6 rebounds, 3 blocks), this is the second defeat in a row for RCA and could cost the qualification to the play-offs.

MAS Fes - KAC Knitra : 77-76
MAS confirmed its great moment beating KAC after a very close game 77-76. Matar Mbaye scored 20 points to lead his team, that is holding now the fourth place.

WAC Casablanca - FUS Rabat : 66-62
WAC took a very important win at home over FUS in a very close end of game. Karim Layadi was the man of the game provoking 7 fouls (most of them in money time) and scoring 16 points, and FUS answered with Ismael Ndaye who had 22 points and 4 rebounds.

ASE Essaouira - CMC Casablanca : 78-69
ASE prevailed at home over last ranked CMC. Moustafa Kaabour was the best for ASE and Zahid Taoufik for CMC, both of them scoring 17 points.

IRAN Nadir - IRT Tanger : 79-84
Reigning champion IRT made fantastic road victory in Nador where new head coach Nizar Mesbahi managed to turn the game in the fourth quarter. IRAN was a better team in the first three quarters. But IRT players reacted in the last quarter and secured the game. Jules Richard (20 points and 4 rebounds) and Youness Idrissi (17 points, 8 rebounds) were the best IRTs players. This time Dodo Faye (21 points, 5 rebounds) and Adnane Msaadia (24 points) could not save IRAN from his second home defeat this season.

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