COTONOU (15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women) - Wild card entrant, First Bank basketball club of Nigeria Wednesday showed champion stuff with an emphatic 84-29 points pounding of Kenya Ports Authority in her last group-A game at the Palais des Sports arena, Cotonou, Benin Republic.

The former champion won in all four-quarters by 22-06; 16-14; 26-01 and 20-08 to stay top of group-A.

First Bank America-import, Danielle Green led the banker with 17 points, 8 rebounds, 4 steals, 4 block-shots and 2 assists, Adeola Olanrewaju had a double double figure of 11 rebounds, 10 points and 2 steals just as the duo of Chioma Udeaja and Rashidat Sadiq added 10 points each.

Energie gave-up hope, loses to A’Politecnica 39-79

Host of the final round of the 15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women, Energie basketball club of Benin Republic Wednesday gave-up all hope of picking a win in group-A of the competition losing by a 30 points margin of 69-39 points to A’Politecnica basketball club of Mozambique.

The Mozambican won in all four quarters by 18-09; 14-10; 22-10 and 15-10 points to finish third in the group which comprises group leader, First Bank of Nigeria, Abidjan Basket Club of Cote d’Ivoire who finish the group as the second team while Kenya Ports Authority picked the fourth slot to the quarter-finals.

Interclube failed Desportivo test 47-50

Interclube basketball club of angola hope of topping group-B of the 15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women was dashed by title holder, Desportivo basketball club of Mozambique via a 50-47 points lose to finish second in the group.

The evenly matched game saw both sides going for each jogular throughout the game as Desportivo won the first, third and last quarters by 13-11, 14-13 and 09-08 points respectively while Interclube picked the second quarter by 15-14 points.

Desportivo Leia Dongue led the floor with 14 points, 9 rebounds and one block-shot while Anabella Cossa added 12 points and 5 rebounds.

Africa oldest women basketball player and Interclube valuable asset 39-year-old Irene Guerreira recorded 10 points and 3 rebounds just as her teammate had her name on the scorer chat with 10 points and 9 rebounds.

Ikuesan Olusegun
FIBA Africa