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Crusaders march to Conference lead
Coventry Crusaders soared to the top of the NBL Conference with a terrific 91-80 win at previously unbeaten Sutton Pumas. Leading the way for the Crusaders was Adam Stephens who bagged a game high 33 points closely followed by Emmanuel Sharland with 20. Pumas’ top scorer was Gareth Laws with 19 points.
Elsewhere in the Conference Teesside scraped home by three points at Inter-Basket London after being 19 points adrift at the half, Dennis Ley and Jason Swaine leading all scorers with 23 points each, Worthing won the battle of the south coast in convincing style coming away from Fleming Park with a 35 point winning margin and Plymouth Raiders, playing only their second Conference game of the season, proved too strong for Manchester Magic running out 77-65 winners to maintain their unbeaten start to their Conference campaign - Todd Cetnar hit 24 for the resurgent Raiders.
In Division One, Oxford Devils maintained their 100% start to the season by overcoming Westminster Warriors 99–71 at the Oxford Brookes Centre, new American signing Todd McNeil contributing 19 points whilst Kingston Wildcats and Birmingham Aces both share second spot after home wins over Liverpool and Reading respectively.
It was cup weekend for the Division Two and Three teams with eight second round ties in the National Shield taking place. Top performers of the weekend were Hull Icebergs who won convincingly on the road at Ware Fire, 102-80 with John Brignell and James Miller both hitting 22 for the visitors – Ware’s Alan Prescott was unlucky to finish on the losing side as he contributed exactly half of his teams’ points.
Other notable wins were achieved by the Brixton Topcats who inflicted on Ealing Tornados their first defeat of the season, 72–64 with Marcus Knight grabbing 30 points and Taunton’s 78-66 win at Doncaster where Graham Jones stunned the home side with 22 points.
NBL CONFERENCE
INTER-BASKET 90 (63) (Redd 22, Alexander 17, Bailey 15)
TEESSIDE 93 (44) (Ley 23, Swaine 23, Bucci 22)PLYMOUTH 77 (35) (Cetnar 24, Knechtel 12, Wellington 11)
MANCHESTER 65 (38) (Duppa 13, Linsley 12, Truso 11)SOLENT 85 (43) (Harper 21, Owusu 21, Rumsey 12)
WORTHING 120 (53) (Mundy-Castle 42, Thomas 22, Harriott 13)SUTTON 80 (40) (Laws 19, Powlesland 19, Hopper 17)
COVENTRY 91 (35) (Stephens 33, Sharland 20, Pope 19)NBL DIVISION ONE MEN
BIRMINGHAM 101 (45) (Simms 32, Prince 17, Ahmed 12)
READING 99 (47) (Smith 21, Johnson 17, Eames 16)KINGSTON 110 (49) (Whittaker 27, Rich 18, Botiglia 13)
LIVERPOOL 68 (35) (Walker 14, Murphy 13, Flanaghan 12)OXFORD 99 (40) (Choutka 20, McNeil 19, Kelly 12)
WESTMINSTER 71 (38) (Shire 22, Addy 14, Burden 11)NBL SHIELD ROUND TWO
BIRMINGHAM UNI 93 (56) (Onions 25, Gabriel 24, Devenye 17)
WORCESTER 86 (41) (Solvason 27, Vissonnea 25, Livingston 16)BRIGHTON 74 (34) (Morgans 29, Sesay 18, Ramy Malik 11)
NW LONDON 81 (40) (Koin 18, Madike 17, Ugbana 14)BRIXTON 72 (30) (Knight 30, John 18, Azebiah 16)
EALING 64 (28) (Quashie 21, Jivens 8, Bristol 8)DONCASTER 66 (40) (Filson 20, McKinney 18, Modzelewski 15)
TAUNTON 78 (43) (Jones 22, McMahon 19, Yabsley 11)DUDLEY 64 (32) (Bashford 15, Gaynor 11, Hall 11)
NOTTINGHAM 57 (29) (Haase 18, Johnson 15, English 9)MANSFIELD 83 (41) (Seamarks 25) (after overtime, 70 – 70)
DERBYSHIRE A 77 (37) (Ellmer 26)NORTH LONDON 97 (45) (Stiller 26, Hockey 22, Burrell 16)
THAMES VALLEY 91 (52) (Butterworth 20, Oliver 20, Williams 19)WARE 80 (42) (Prescott 40, Barnett 12, Sableski 10)
HULL 102 (42) (Brignall 22, Miller 22, McKenna 15)NTL WOMEN’S NATIONAL CUP ROUND TWO
BRIGHTON 41 (20) (Mason 11, McGinley 9, Rebbeck 7)
THAMES VALLEY 76 (43) (Andrew 27, McHugh 17, Brattnas 12)UWIC CARDIFF 38 (19) (Flores 8, R Murphy 7, McCann 6)
RHONDDA 82 (44) (Boston 32, Hogg 10, Lacey 9)COVENTRY 79 (38) (Mitchell 24, Smith 13, Stone 12)
TYNE & WEAR 78 (37) (Hindmarch 30, Vickers14, McLenhan 8)DONCASTER 59 (33) (Naylor 16, Kendall 16)
SHEFFIELD 86 (45) (Castanada 128, Ellis 17)IPSWICH 102 (54) (Brownsell 28, Gray 22, Shemming 18)
NORTHAMPTON 66 (31) (J Smith 23, H Smith 12, Williams 11)NOTTINGHAM 128 (58) (Pass 28, Boscott 16, Page 16)
STOCKPORT 28 (14) (Cronshaw 8, Lightfoot 8)SPELTHORNE 116 (58) (Cooke 27, Ridruejo 19, Ayres 16)
NW LONDON 30 (15) (Schulewski 9, Reinier 7, Bedwell 6)WANDSWORTH 90 (57) (Batimba 16, Kiernander 15, Bucknall 13)
PLYMOUTH 54 (33) (Lear 16, Whittaker 11, Pinch 7)
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