Ebun Comets basketball club began its quest for a place in the grand finale of the 23rd African Champions Club Competition on a shaky note Sunday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast with a 58-53 points lose to home team Zenith basketball club.
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
Published: 2006-10-09 15:01:55
View article online: http://nigeriasports.com/3565
© Nigeriasports.com