London Towers slipped to a 78-75 defeat in Sweden on Sunday afternoon, as Norrkopping Dolphins avenged a pre-season defeat by the Towers. 

In front of over 1700 spectators in Norrkoping the home team won a very "strange" game. Both the
teams had several opportunities, and both of them exchanged their leading positions. Dolphins took their lead at the beginning, but at the end of the first quarter the board showed 22-23.

"We had a terrible start; at that time I thought it would go till the very end. Luckily we got our
things moving," Nick Nurse explained.

In the second and the third quarter the lead was switching from one side to another all the time,
and the crucial moment did not come until the last minute. Thanks to David Bergstrom the score
became 76-72.

But the British side were to get one more chance. With only two seconds left Kendrick Warren tried to shoot a three-pointer at 78-75, yet, unluckily, the ball hit the ring and bounced out again.

"We had a terrible week… We lost three games in a row," Nurse added.

Warren led the Towers' scoring with 20 points, but it was the Dolphins' Fred Drains, who led all scoring with 22 points.

The Londoners travel to Denmark to face the Great Danes on Monday.