Peaks, African Sports in Final battle

The finals hold this evening which will make it the second time both team are meeting in less than four days, as Peaks run away with a 68-61 points win in their first met in a group game.

African Sports on the other hand narrowly edge past Back basketball club of Guinea in the other semi-final clash by 52-50 points to set up the final duel against the Nigerian champion.

Nigeria's second team in the qualifiers, Ebun Comets basketball club finished in dismal seventh position after it defeated CBS basketball club of Togo 72-36 points in its classification match, ASPAC of Republic of Benin had the better part of its encounter against Ghana's CEPS Braves 82-79 to finish fifth while the nineth and tenth position clash between Liberia's Invicible Eleven and NPA Pythons did not hold as both side refuse to honour the encounter.

Peaks, African Sports, Zenith and Back have booked a place in the grand finale alongside  Dodan Warriors (Host), ABC ( Defending Champions). Others qualifiers includes former champion Primero D'Augosto of Angola, Petro Athletico of Angola, Inter Club of Congo DR and Onatra of Congo Brazaville.

The grand finale is billed for Lagos, Nigeria between November 14 and 26 this year, as host Warriors release the list of its committee members for the continent's biggest club competition.

The main organising committee is headed by Warriors Basketball Co-ordinator, Col. Sam Ahmedu (rtd), other members of the committee includes chairman of Lagos State Basketball Association, Babs Ogunade, technical committee chairman and league director of the Nigeria Basketball Federation Dr. Adamu Ahmed and Muktar Khaleh.

The media and publicity sub-committee has the three Fiba.com correspondent in Nigeria, Obafemi Obadare, Pius Ayinor and Olusegun Ikuesan who also represent the biggest basketball website in the world www.eurobasket.com.