BBL Trophy, group stages: Thames Valley 96-108 Brighton

Thames Valley Tigers 96 (22,40,70) (Meldrum 26, Bowman 23, Martin 15)
Brighton Bears 108 (24,55,81) (White 40, Davis 20, Johnson 19)

Brighton Bears recorded their first victory in the BBL Trophy this season at the second time of asking defeating the in form Thames Valley Tigers 96-108 on Saturday night.

The Bears posted a 10-0 second quarter burst to sieze the initiative and enjoyed their biggest lead of the game midway through the 3rd at 74-57. The Tigers made significant inrodes into their lead to trim the deficit to just 5 at 91-86 with 4 minutes remaining but could get no closer. 

Bears Albert White was unstoppable with 40 personal points. Greg Meldrum fired 26 to lead the hosts.
 

BBL Championship: Derby 74-76 Sheffield

Derby Storm 74 (13,33,53) (Robinson 32, Peterson 15, Miller 10)
Sheffield 76 (6,35,58) (Reinking 17, Scantlebury/Payne 14)

Sheffield moved up to second place in the BBL Championship Northern Conference after a hard fought 74-76 road victory over a determined Derby Storm on Saturday night.

A stubborn Storm defence had held the visitors to just 6 first quarter points before their advantage was whittled away in the second period. Derby still persisted to remain in contention but Sharks Justin Phoenix converted a three point play with just 8s remaining to give the Sharks a two point advantage at 76-74 and then held on to prevent the Storm scoring again as Danny Hildreth failed to release last second attemtp before the buzzer. 

Derby's Durrell Robinson led all scorers with 32 while Nate Reinking paced the victors on 17.

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