WFN Tourney: Experience did it for Elephant Girls
Experience they say is the best teacher, this was what the star-studded First Bank Elephant Girls basketball club of Lagos relied upon to ran away with an 85-66 points victory over determined qand youthful Dolphins at last weekend grand finale of the Women Foundation of Nigeria, WFN championship.
Coming from a 57-16 points in its first group-A win over the Sylvester James tutored Dolphins, the Elephant Girls parading some of the best female ball players in the local scene would have thought they will have an easy win especially when they won the first quarter of the final by 26-10 points but got the shocker of their lives when the Wale Aboderin girls fought back like a wounded Dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean to narrow the lead making haf-time score to stand at 51-34 points (25-24) in favour of Elephant Girls. Third quarter was more interesting to watch as the Dolphins girls outwit the Funmilayo Ojelabi-Ogunleye captained Elephant Girls winning the quarter by 21-12 points to narrow the Adewumi Aderemi tutored Elephant Girls lead to just eight points only to go down due to inexperience in the last quarter when former international point guard Taye Adeniyi combined beautifully with youthful Amaka Adibeli, Bintu Badmus, Patricia Chukwuma and Ojelabi who was later adjudged the most valuable player of the tournament to ran away with the first priced at stake winning the quarter 22-11. At the end of hostility Dolphins chairman, Aboderin was full of praise for his girls for daring the Elephant Girls after giving an 40/60 chance of qualifying from group-A.
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