Brighton
Bears 95 (16,31,67) (Davis 25, Duck 23, Johnson 18)
Chester Jets
87 (19,46,63) (Davis 26, McCord 19, Thomas 17)
Brighton Bears kept
the Southern Conference title aspirations alive with a 95-87 victory over
Northern Conference
champions Chester Jets. Chester enjoyed the early showing opening
up a 46-31 lead at the half. In the second half, Brighton came storming
back, and Randy Duck levelled the scores at 58-58 and a Sterling Davis
three gave Bears the lead. A 12-1 run across the third and fourth
quarter break gave Brighton a 73-63 lead, and Chester could find no way
back. Brighton must now beat Pertemps Bullets Birmingham tomorrow,
and hope that the Kinder London Towers lose to Leopards Kool Kats to take
the title. Davis led the Bears scorers with 25, while Calvin Davis
led all scorers with 26 for the Jets.
Leopards Kool
Kats 70 (26,40,60) (Alderson 26, Robinson/Brown 11)
Milton Keynes
Lions 74 (18,32,53) (Siemon 18, Brown 14, Alleyne 11)
Milton Keynes Lions
have gained the final playoff berth in the Southern Conference thanks to
a 74-70 victory over Leopards Kool Kats. Leopards led for the majority
of the game, but an Andrew Alleyne two tied things up at 67-67 with 4:18
remaining. The two Browns (Rod and Jermaine respectively) traded
threes, but an 'unsportsmanlike' foul on Rico Alderson with 20 seconds
remaining enabled the Lions to seal the game from the charity stripe.
Leopards must now beat the Towers tomorrow to guarantee third place in
the South. Alderson led all scorers with 26 points, while Jason Siemon
led the Lions scoring with 18.
Thames Valley
Tigers 85 (24,45,62) (Jamison 26, Davis 12, Meldrum 11)
Pertemps Bullets
Birmingham 99 (30,57,85) (Paternostro 25, Johnson 22, Garcia 18)
Birmingham are out
of the playoff picture due to other results this evening despite a convincing
99-85 victory over the also - exited Thames Valley Tigers. Bullets
led from start to finish, and
enjoyed their biggest
lead of the game with five minutes remaining with the scores at 94-70.
This came off the back of a 7-0 burst, and even though the Tigers scored
the last seven points in the game, they could not reverse the deposit.
Shawn Jamison led all scorers with a game-high 26 points, while Rob Paternostro
led the Bullets scoring with 25.
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