Zenith Basketball: Dolphins, Delta Force win

Dolphins continued to underline their title credentials in the Zenith
Bank Women’s League by beating their Group B opponents, Coal City
Queens, 75-12. National team invitee Juliet Currency scored 4/8 from
behind the arc to finish with 26 points and fellow guard Amaka
Nwakamma added 19 points in the one sided affair at the Ilorin
Township Stadium on Wednesday.
Dolphins are now unbeaten in nine games so far and topping their
group with maximum 20 points from the Phase One event which was held
in Abuja last month.
In other games played on Wednesday, Delta Force ladies were on fire
against newcomers Zamfara Babes, as they blew them 81-18, while
Benue Princesses came from behind to beat Immigrations 41-29.
On Tuesday, which served as Day 1 of Phase 2, the top scorer in the
first phase in Abuja, IG Queens’ Christina Issac, continued from
where she left off as she dropped 25 points in the IGP Queens 56-22
victory over Nassarawa Amazons. Isaac averaged 26.7 points per game
during the Abuja competition. The match between the Police ladies and
Nassarawa was first for this second stage.
Defending champions First Bank also had a light walk of Oluyole Babes
of Ibadan, winning by 67-23. Nkechi Akashili hit 21 points and Lynette
Atieno scored 10 points while grabbing four rebounds. And it was same
of the same for last season’s runners-up Dolphins, who beat GT200 of
Kaduna 65-26.
In other results, erstwhile champions First Deepwater needed late
15-0 run in the third quarter to come from behind to defeat Plateau
Peaks 39-29. Sunshine Angels and AHIP Queens dominated from start
to finish in their 56-42 and 42-17 wins over Taraba Hurricanes and
Immigrations respectively. The Nigerian Customs also proved to be a
team to lookout for as they whitewashed Coal City Queens 70-7, while
Delta Force welcomed back Ogoh Bolum, who nailed nine points from
behind the arc to finish with 11 points on their way to an emphatic
72-23 win over FCT Angels.