BBL Championship
Pertemps Bullets Birmingham 87 (16,40,70) (Paternostro/Johnson 20, Bailey 18)
Chester Jets 82 (19,38,54) (Davis 31, McCord 28, Hamilton 14)
 

Pertemps Bullets Birmingham picked up their 11th BBL Championship success of the season with an 87-82 victory at home to Northern Conference leaders Chester Jets on Thursday evening. A 21-4 third quarter tear was the crucial difference between the teams - it put Bullets 63-46 ahead midway through the quarter. 

It followed an earlier ten-point lead for Jets at 37-27 midway through the second quarter. Chester, who were without the injured John Thomas, rallied in the fourth quarter, with a 12-0 run that reduced the arrears to one point at 78-77 with 90 seconds remaining, but they could get no closer. 

Rob Paternostro and Rashod Johnson each bagged 20 points for Bullets, but Chester's Calvin Davis led all scorers with 31 points.

For Bullets, it is already the second game of the week after losing in the NEBL, but another four games in six days to come, Head Coach Lance Randall is not complaining about the schedule or any injuries that his players are playing with at present.

“I don’t want these guys to get any sympathy right now,” he said. “No one will miss any games, everyone will play just as they are.”
 
 
 

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