FIBA Africa Zone-3 Qualifiers: Royal Hoopers, Kano Pillars, ABC dominates

(by Olusegun Ikuesan)
The trio of Royal Hoopers basketball club and Kano Pillars basketball club of Nigeria and Abidjan Basket Club of Cote dIvoire have continue to dominate their opponent at the 2010 FIBA Africa Champions Club for Men Zone-3 elimination holding at the SKD Sports Complex gymnasium, Monrovia, Liberia posting good results.

Royal Hoopers Nigeria DStv League runner-up who is making its debut at the biggest Africa club competition handed down a 73-61 defeat of Liberia former league champion, NPA Pythons basketball club in Day-2 of the qualifiers completing its superiority over Liberian teams having defeated Liberia reigning champion UHURU Kings on Monday by 66-55 points.

The Coach Ogoh Odaudu tutored Hoopers opened a wide margin in the first quarter with a 22-06 points win but allowed the Pythons to bite back in the second quarter losing the quarter by 16-19 points for half-time score-line of 38-25 points in favour of the Hoopers.

The Hoopers also lost the third quarter by 15-20 but rose to the challenges to earn victory in the last quarter by 20-16 points for a cumulative score-line of 73-61 points.

In the other two games of Day-2 Kano Pillars defeated Swallows of Togo by 64-50 points while ABC had the better of UHURU Kings by 59-49 points.

Action continue today as the competition enter Day-3 with Royal Hoopers taking to the floor againsy ABC at 15H00; Swallows and NPA Pythons searches for their first win at 17H00 while Kano Pillars go up against UHURU Kings at 19H00.