Africa Qualifiers: Comets on a Shaky Start

The coach Ayo Bakare tutored still have opportunity to redeem the pledge of playing in the grand finale in lagos next month when it filled out against Back basketball club of Guinea later today.

Nigeria champion, Plateau Peaks basketball club will have the opportunity of show-casing its talents when in confront CBS basketball club of Togo.

Other matches slated for today includes the encounter between NPA Python of Liberia and Zenith of Ivory Coast and Invissible Eleven of Liberia versus African Sports of Ivory Coast.

Ten club are taking part in the week-long qualifiers from seven countries from zones one, two and three with the first four team booking a passage to the grand finale to be hosted by Nigeria's Dodan Warriors basketball club.

Day-one results:
 
07/10 -  Africa Sports75-50  CBS
 
08/10 - ASPAC 81-72 Invincible Eleven 

            NPA Pythons 66-64 CEPS Braves
  
            Zenith 58-53 Ebun Comets   

GROUPE A
1. AFRICA SPORTS (CÔTE D’IVOIRE)
2. CBS (TOGO)
3. ASPAC (BENIN)
4. PLATEAU PEAKS (NIGERIA)
5. INVINCIBLE ELEVEN (LIBERIA)

GROUPE B
1. ZENITH (CÔTE D’IVOIRE)
2. EBUN COMET (NIGERIA)
3. BRAVES CEPS (GHANA)
4. BACK (GUINEA)
5. NPA PYTHONS (LIBERIA)
 

Full Fixtures
Match DATE Hour Group-A    Group-B

1 Saturday 7 October 2006 16 H 00 AFRICA SPORT Vs C BS
2                                     18 H 00 INVINCILE ELEVEN Vs ASPAC

3 Sunday 8 October 2006 17 H 00 PYTHON Vs BRAVES
4                                             19 H 00 ZENITH Vs COMETS

5 Monday 9 Oct 2006  12 H 00 PLATEAU PEAK Vs CBS
6      14 H 00 BACK Vs COMETS
7      16 H 00 PYTHON Vs ZENITH
8      18 H 00 INVINCBLE ELEVEN Vs AFRICA

9 Tuesday 10 Oct 2006 12 H 00 BRAVES Vs ZENITH
10      14 H 00 PLATEAU PEAK Vs INVINCIBLE ELEVEN
11      16 H 00 BACK Vs PYTHON
12      18 H 00 ASPAC Vs AFRICA SPORT

13 Wednesday 11 Oct 2006 12 H 00 CBS Vs INVINCIBLE ELEVEN
14      14 H 00 COMET  Vs PYTHON
15      16 H 00 BRAVES Vs BACK
16      18 H 00 ASPAC Vs PLATEAU PEAK

17 Thursday 12 Oct 2006 12 H 00 COMET Vs BRAVES
18      14 H 00 CBS Vs ASPAC
19      16 H 00 AFRICA SPORT Vs PLATEAU PEAK
20      18 H 00 ZENITH  Vs BACK

CLASSIFICATION
21 Saturday 13 Oct 2006 10 H 00 5th A    5th B
22      12 H 00 4th B    4th A
23      14 H 00 3rd A    3rd B

SEMI - FINALES
24 Saturday 13 Oct 2006 16 H 00 1st B Vs 2nd A
25      18 H 00 2nd B Vs 1stA

FINALES
26 Sunday 14 Oct 2006 16 H 00 Loser 21    loser 22
27      18 H 00 winner 21 winner 22