With just 20sec left on the clock, MFM Women’s Basketball club’s Hembam Wandoo dropped a 3-point shot to shock the Customs ladies and put her team 1 pt ahead 53-54.
The Customs ladies added more miseries to their pain by causing two more errors by gifting the MFM ladies four free throws.
However, the Olukoya girls converted three of four free throws to end the game at 57-53 points.
Customs’ Early Lead Disappears
Nigeria Customs Service Women`s Basketball team could not hold on to their lead as they suffered an agonizing defeat to arch-rivals Mountain of Fire Ministries to 57-53 basket points inside the SKD Gymnasium Paynesville indoor hall Liberia.
Coming into the game as defending champions against the Nigeria champion, the Border Girls handled by coach Abdulrahman Mohammed started brightly and kept working hard to take the first quarter at 10-9 points.
Resuming the second quarter, the Olukoya girls with coach Ochuko Owolabi leading the team came into the game stronger forcing the Customs team to make some errors and allowing them to come back to score 17 points to Nigeria Customs’ 11 to end the second quarter 26-21 going into the break.
The third quarter was a light of fire for the Adewale Adeniyi`s ladies who know what is at stake, went all out in the game as they recovered their earlier deficits to increase their score to four points scoring 22pts to 13 to win the third quarter at 43-39points.
MFM Women’s Basketball Are Final Bound
The final quarter was more of a battle than the game itself as the Customs shot high leading the game with about 6 points into the last 2 minutes of the game but couldn`t manage the game plan very well as the MFM ladies rallied back with two points shot to reduce the margin to two.
Consequently, the MFM Women’s Basketball Team has booked their ticket to the African Women’s Basketball finals, while Customs’ unbeaten streak ends.
Additional report by Busayo Olowookere.
