BBL Championship
Birmingham
108 (19,42,77)
(Bailey 32, O'Connell 23, Paternostro 20)
Milton Keynes
Lions 99 (22,49,71)
(Alleyne 28, Kirk 26, Lloyd 24)
Pertemps Bullets
Birmingham enjoyed the festive period with a second win in three days,
coming from behind to defeat Milton Keynes Lions. The visitors bossed the
first half leading throughout, but Birmingham racked up 35 third quarter
to points to take a six point led into the final quarter. They then started
the final period 15-8 to put the result beyond doubt. Brant Bailey led
all scorers with 32, whilst Irish international John O'Connell posted a
double double. Andrew Alleyne bagged 28 for the Lions.
BBL Championship
Kinder London
Towers 95
(16,42,68) (Myers 30, White 21, Youngblood
13)
Thames Valley
Tigers 72
(21,43,58) (Meldrum 22, Robinson 14,
Martin/Burks 13)
Kinder London Towers
overcame a slow start to register their eighth win of the Championship
campaign over Southern Conference leaders Thames Valley Tigers. Despite
being without injured guard Barry Bowman (knee), some fine play from Michael
Martin and thunderous dunks from Kelvin Robinson saw Thames Valley romp
into a 40-29 lead. A 13-3 tear to the half-time buzzer by the Towers, though.
saw them only down one at the break. Robert Youngblood sparked a good start
to the second half by the Towers, and though Thames Valley rallied with
three threes from Greg Meldrum in the fourth, Terrell Myers and Brett Eppehimer
connected from behind the arc to finish the Tigers off. Towers netted the
last 10 points of the game to pad their winning margin. Myers was in sparkling
form with half his 30 points coming from downtown, while Meldrum led the
Tigers with 22.
Friday
28
BBL Championship
Newcastle Eagles 89
(30,46,71) (Myers 28, Leak 20, Walker
12)
Leopards
97 (26,51,69)
(Kimbrough 22, Brown 20, Robinson 16)
Leopards Kool Kats
moved back into the top four of the Southern Conference with a 97-89 victory
at Newcastle Eagles. The game was pretty tight throughout with both sides
enjoying a share of the lead before Leopards made a decisive 6-0 run late
in the final quarter. Shawn Myers led all scorers with 26 points whilst
Jason Kimbrough bagged 22 points for the Leopards.
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