1st Tonye Jekiri PHCity Basketball Challenge: Ricday Coach Attribute Loss to Inexperience, As SBMF Thrashed P. Town Ballers
By Eyo Kelvin
….. Salimon Marian excited of E-Bluk win over Peace Makers
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| Ricday Basketball Team |
SBMF continue to dominance at the
1st Tonye Jekiri PHCity Basketball Challenge with brilliant form, leaving
spectators with no option rather than asking for more.
The Soso Bobmanuel Foundation (SBMF)
secured a 45-22 straight win over P. Town Ballers, making it their second win
in a role at the ongoing basketball clinic in Port Harcourt. While it was P.
Town Ballers second defeat so far.
Meanwhile, another electrifying and
intense game was the one involving DA-F Kings and Ricday Basketball, and high
performance display which happened to be the best clash ever in the
competition.
DA-F Kings managed to nip a 54-50 victory
over Ricday basketball after an end-to-end encounter, setting up the tune in
the third and fourth quarter bringing their “A” game to bear.
However, Victor James, Coach of Ricday
and Rivers Hoopers player voice out his sentiment attributing the loss to
inexperience of his lads despite winning the first game of the competition.
He said “Is a learning process for
us, my team is a young squad and the lads are always giving in their best, the
game was very much intense and we were full of life bringing out our “A” game
but inexperience happened cos they are young and are growing, each time we play
like this we gather more experience and exposure,” James Victor added.
“Every game we approach is with a
winning mentality doesn’t matter what happened in the previous game either win
or lose, we have to put that game aside and focus on the next game, so tomorrow
most definitely we’ll come out, play more intense and see how it goes.”
“Well I don’t, I just want my boys
to have fun in the competition and you know one thing about sports you need to
take it one after the other, so let’s take tomorrow game get us to the semifinals
then we’ll know how it goes from there.
Like the saying goes “what a man
can do, a woman can do even better” but this is a basketball challenge as each
team of the competition is made to have one female basketball player to
encourage the female players in Port Harcourt.
Salimon Marian, who is part of
E-Bluk was full of excitement taking part in the competition of the 1st Tonye
Jekiri basketball challenge.
E-Bluk Basketball Team
She spoke to Kelviano Meida on how
they had to make amend to their first game to secure the all-important victory,
expressing delight taking part in the competition.
“I’m very excited because we were
able to work harder than yesterday, we were able to amend our mistakes and I am
very much happy like this. My next target is to win the next game cos I don’t
want to lose any game again Salimon Marian explained.
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