July 2001 Sport News Headlines

Monday, July 23, 2001 - Web posted at 14:43:57 GMT

Dolphines gain revenge

DOLPHINES gained revenge with a 62-55 victory against Unam Wildcats in a women's Premier League basketball match on Saturday, after Wildcats had won their first encounter a few weeks ago.

Wildcats, who are hot favourites to go through to the play-offs, remain second on the log and Dolphines fourth and both teams are still left with one more game before the end of the regular playing season.

In other exciting games played on Saturday, Polytechnic beat Swakopmund Hornets 101-54 while Tomahawks walloped Rehoboth Basketball Club 61-49.

In the main game of Saturday evening, Unam Rebels beat ABC Kings 82-58 after leading the first half by 19 points.

The defending champions, Rebels took the lead soon after Kings opened the scoreboard and were leading throughout the game as Nigel Mubita kept on downing basket after basket.

Mubita was top scorer of the game with 22 points, including four three point shots.

Teammates Shafa Kaulinge and Tinashe Maguwudze also helped their team winning comfortably.

Kings' Freddy Amushendje, tallied the most points for his team but those were not enough to change the game into their favour.

Unam Rebels, who have one game left before the qualifiers, will go all out to defend their title against Tomahawks next Saturday.

Tomahawks have not lost a game since the start of the league and are hot favourites to win what is already billed as a mini final.

In games played on Friday, ABC Kings beat Unam Bladez 80-74 and hot favourites for the women's title Civics Starzz, beat Divas 48-32. - Nampa

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