Basketball in Africa

Patience Okpe scored a team high 19 points and four rebounds, as Dolphins maintained their unbeaten run in the Zenith Bank Female Basketball League with a 92-29 points victory over whipping girls of Group B, Coal-city Queens of Enugu.
With a commanding start from the jump-ball the 2014 league runners up lead by double digits in each of the 4 quarters to send signals of their title ambitions this season.
Speaking after the match, leading scorer of the game, Okpe said " Our aspirations this season is to go a step further than we did last year which is getting the title". Our team is built on hard work and determination and we are taught to play without any inhibitions" She added
In other results from yesterday, First Deepwater also maintained their 100 per cent record in the 1st Phase of the Zenith Bank Female Basketball League with a 77-16 points victory over the Taraba Hurricanes.
RESULTS Benue Princess 33-31 Immigration
Zamfara Babes 8-65 Delta Force
AHIP Queens 29-39 Plateau Rocks