Basketball in Africa

Kenyan Basketball champions Eagle Wings on Saturday evening put up a hard fighting performance against African champions InterClube from Angola to whom they lost 62-48.This was the second loss for the East African queens who play their third group B match against Nigerian champions on Sunday.
Having lost the first three quarters to the defending champions (16-09, 16-13, 22-07), Eagle Wings never lost hope as they came back in the final quarter with some shocking power pinning down the champions in dramatic style with a 19-08 scoreline. However, it was too late to cover the margin and they lost with a 14 points’ gap 62-48.
Interclub had advantage over Wings with 58-54 rebounds and were also the better side in assists (22-15), steal (17-5) and had fewer turn-overs with sixteen compared to Eagle Wings’ twenty-three.