Sultan's Cup good to go

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

Saturday, July 10, 2010

THE Brunei Basketball Association (BBA) announced that they will be organising the annual Sultan's Cup basketball competition during a committee meeting at the BBA court in Batu Bersurat last night.
Scheduled to be held on July 31, the competition, which will be contested at the same venue, will be divided into the Men's and Women's categories.

It is open to all ballers holding a valid Brunei identity card.

Interested parties can obtain their entry forms from the BBA court.

Completed registration forms with entry fees of $300 for the Men's category and $200 for the Women's category are to be handed in to the organisers on or before the closing date on July 25.

More information can be obtained by contacting the BBA head organiser, Soon Ching Long, at 8770316 or Ang at 8897449.

The organising committee is expecting participation from some 20 teams in the Men's category, in addition to four for the Women's category.

The last open tournament organised by the BBA was the BBA Open Challenge Trophy, held in March where Plaza Sutera Biru emerged as the champions after erasing a 25-point deficit to defeat the Ilonggo Stingers 83-77 in the final.

Meanwhile, the Borneo City Cup was also among the agenda for discussion last night.

The Sultanate is set to host the tournament from August 13-15 with the venue yet to be confirmed.

There will be three categories contested for the cup Men's Open, Men's Veteran (40 years old and above) and Women's Open categories.

The games will be played over the course of three days.

A total of four teams including Brunei with Kota Kinabalu, Miri and Labuan being the others, have confirmed their participation in all three categories for the annual competition.

Source: The Brunei Times

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Palm Cafe crowned Kings in Queenielin

Yee Chun Leong
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

Sunday, July 11, 2010

(photo: The Champs with the Organizers, FAB Officers and Sponsors.)

PALM CAFE emerged the champions of the 2nd Queenielin's Cup with a
hard fought 73-64 victory over their sister team, Palm Muara United, last night at the Brunei Basketball Association court in Batu Bersurat.

Jolito Entapan had the game-high of 18 points to lead Palm Cafe while Majomar Aying and Danny Felicilda each poured in 14 points in the victory. On the other hand, Armando Estoesta scored 17 points for Palm Muara United in a losing effort.

Both teams got off to a slow start and the scoreboard reads 12-9 in favour of Palm Muara United midway through the opening period.

They clearly had the height and size advantage but Palm Cafe managed to outhustle them on rebounds. Palm Muara United were moving the ball and shot the ball well, which saw them take a 16-13 lead into the second period.

Palm Cafe were driving to the hoop and settled for the dish to open teammates to get points inside the paint.

They picked it up a notch at the defensive end by pressuring their opponents' ball handler resulting in turnovers.

Palm Muara United managed to get some easy points on the break but went cold on offence midway through the stanza.

Palm Cafe exploited the situation and grabbed the lead from the opponents to carry a 31-24 advantage into the break.

Aying, who was seated for the second quarter after picking two quick fouls in the opening period, ignited Palm Cafe for seven straight unanswered points in two minutes to extend their lead to 38-24, which is the biggest of the night at that point.

Estoesta would carry Palm Muara United on his shoulders for 10 points in the period.

However, it was not enough as Palm Cafe had a 49-37 cushion going into the final quarter.

Both teams were playing man-to-man defence but it was Palm Cafe that had the better deal out of it.

They were making steals that saw them get easy points on the break.

The match got really intense and physical as both teams battled for position and rebounds in the final five minutes. Read More...

Source: The Brunei Times

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