Chester
Jets 116
(33,63,96) (Hamilton 27, Thomas/Davis 19)
Derby Storm
78
(18,32,42) (Griffin 29, Peterson 15, Hildreth 11)
Chester Jets extended
their BBL Championship record to played five and won five with a comfortable
116-78 success at home to Derby Storm on Sunday evening. Jets' outside
shooting dominated the first half, as Chester bagged 10 three pointers
in the first two quarters.
They scored 16 of
the final 19 points of the half and then opened the third quarter with
a 15-0 tear to lead 78-32 and they never looked back. Jets ran their bench
in the closing stages, as Storm rallied with some late points, but it was
too late to change the result. Nevertheless, the Storm provided the game's
top scorer as Kevin Griffin bagged 29 points, while Chester's James Hamilton
added 27.
Manchester Giants
65
(25,35,51) (Mickens 30, Ellis 11, Pilkington 9)
Pertemps Bullets
Birmingham 78 (19,45,64)
(Bailey/Johnson 22, Craven 11)
Pertemps Bullets
Birmingham left the Manchester Velodrome with the spoils thanks to a 78-65
victory over the Manchester Giants in the BBL Championship on Sunday evening.
Although Giants led early on - a 25-19 first quarter advantage - it was
the Bullets who rallied thereafter.
They came back into
the game in the second quarter and led 45-35 at half-time, maintaining
their advantage in the third quarter. However, Giants did not give up without
a fight - with just two minutes to go they trailed by just six points at
65-71, before Bullets hit the last seven points of the game to make the
result certain. Brant Bailey and Rashod Johnson each bagged 22 points each
for the Bullets, while Rick Micken's game-high 30 points could not prevent
Giants remaining pointless.
Westfield Sharks
Sheffield 90 (17,33,58)
(Reinking 33, Scantlebury 23, Phoenix 10)
Nurishment Leicester
Riders 104 (27,57,75)
(Blalock 34, Brown 25, New 16)
Nurishment Leicester
Riders picked up their second win in as many days with a 104-90
success away to
Westfield Sharks Sheffield on Sunday afternoon. The high scoring Riders,
who never trailed
in the game, managed an early 9-0 tear giving them a 15-6 advantage. A
9-2
run either side
of the first/second quarter break extended that lead to 33-19 and they
went on
to post a 24-point
half-time advantage at 57-33. Sharks rallied in the second half, getting
as
close as seven points
at 80-87 with three minutes to go, but Riders responded with an 11-3 run
to seal the victory.
Ralph Blalock was Riders' top scorer with a game-high 34 points; Sharks'
Nate Reinking added
33.
Kinder London
Towers 91 (23,39,69) (Myers
26, Kent 21, White 19)
Brighton Bears
80 (12,32,58) (White 30, Davis 22, Duck 11)
Kinder London Towers
were back to winning ways on Sunday, with a 91-80 success at home
to Brighton Bears.
The home side got off to a great start with 15 of the opening 17 points
of the
game. Bears rallied
with a 14-3 second quarter run to reduce the deficit and trail by a
recoverable seven
points at half-time at 39-32. However, it was Towers who extended their
lead
in the third quarter
- a 7-0 tear giving them a 58-43 advantage, which proved enough to win
the
game. Terrell Myers
led the way for Towers with 26 points, but it was Albert White who led
all
scorers, bagging
30 points for the Bears.
Milton Keynes
Lions
68 (23,39,57) (Payne 24, Alleyne
16, Kirk 14)
Thames Valley
Tigers
73 (17,35,61)
(Meldrum/Burks 19, Robinson 12)
A third quarter
charge by the Thames Valley Tigers was the difference between them and
the
Milton Keynes Lions,
as Tigers picked up their second victory of the weekend with a 73-68
away win on Sunday
afternoon. Trailing 39-35 at half-time, Tigers began the third period with
an
11-2 tear to lead
46-41. Lions, who had led 19-8 early on, rallied in the fourth quarter
and tied
the score at 61-61.
However, Greg Meldrum bagged Tigers' last eight points of the game to
secure the win.
Meldrum and Eric Burks each scored 19 points to lead the way for Thames
Valley, while Lions'
Victor Payne was the game's top scorer with 24 points to his name.
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