AAG: D’Tigress beat Angola to qualify for Final

In from Nifemi Daniel …
Nigerian women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, on Thursday qualified for the final of the women event after their heroic 61-59 victory over favourites, Angola, at the 11th All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville.
Nigeria commenced the game with a 22-20 points lead in the first quarter while the Angolans outscored D’Tigress in the second quarter with 16-12 points to end the first half with 36-34 points lead against Nigeria.
The coach Scot Nnaji-led team’s effort in the third quarter failed to yield positive results as the Southern Africans ensured they took advantage of the quarter to open the gap against Nigeria.

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But the last quarter was clearly in favour of D’Tigress who doubled their efforts to ensure they moved to the final of the tournament.
The girls won the quarter 17-10 points to finish the game with 61-59 points.
It would be recalled that the male basketball team, the D’Tigers lost 61-60 narrowly to Egypt on Wednesday.

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