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*** TOGOLESE MEN BASKETBALL MAIN PAGE ***
 | International Tournament at Bamako (Mali) | |
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| |  | The national team of Togo have played in a international tornament at Bamako.
They have lost all the games, but the rivals are very strong, especially with the 'Athletes in Action' from the USA.
Results
1st round
Togo-Senegal : 53-75
Guinea-Mali : 56-59
Rest: Athletes in Action
2nd round
Athletes in Action-Togo : 65-53
Mali-Senegal : 54-56
Rest: Guinea
3rd round
Guinea-Athletes in Action 76-68
Togo-Mali 63-83
Rest: Senegal
4th round
Senegal-Athletes in Action 62-73
Togo-Guinea 73-83
Rest: Mali
5th round
Senegal-Guinea 66-58
Mali- Athletes in Action 52-76
Rest : Togo
STANDING
1st USA 8 points
2nd Senegal 7 points
3rd Mali 6 points
4th Guinea 5 points
5th Togo 4 points
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| Boucari hopes for the semis with his team | |
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by Eurobasket News - Apr 6, 2008 | | | Serabilo Boucari (188-G-85) and his Oresundskraft are struggling int he Quarterfinal of Swedish league. His team tied the series with Solna beating them 94:88 at home court. Herman Favors fired game-high 28 points to keep Orensdskraft alive in the series. The teams now move back to Solna to play the decider on Tuesday. The hosts overcame a 9-point first stanza deficit to pull away with a vital victory. Jens Stalhandske canned 23 points for the winning side. Bilal Salaam secured 26 points for the Vikings.
before that the Solna Vikings grabbed a 2-1 lead in the series against Oresundskraft. Solna edged their opponents 83:56 at home and now are one step away from the semifinal appearance. Rudy Mbemba tallied 16 points and Brandon McKnight added 12 to lead the Vikings to an impressive victory. Herman Favors nailed 14 points in a loss. Serabilo Boucari produced 5 points for Oresundskraft.
In Game 2 Solna made a decisive push in the final stanza to overwhelm Oresundsktaft 87:82 away from home and tied the quarterfinal series at 1-1. The Vikings overcame a sizzling performance from Herman Favors and an early deficit to pull away with a vital victory. The hosts held on a 23:22 lead in the starting stanza and was not about to give it up easily. The Vikings nevertheless managed to surge ahead in the second period and arrived to halftime leading by 4 points. Oresundskraft kept it close throughout the third stanza trimming the deficit by one point. It gradually came up to the final seconds in this one but Solna survived due to some big shots from Rudy Mbemba and Lesli Myrthil. Rudy Mbemba provided 23 points, while Brandon McKnight added 19 for the Vikings. Lesli Myrthil had 13 points for the winning side. The home team answered with game-high 29 points from Herman Favors. Jens Stalhandske and Anders Ronndahl netted 12 points apiece in a loss.
Serabilo Boucari poured in 2 points in the first game as the second-ranked Solna suddenly stumbled in the starting encounter of their quarterfinal matchup against Oresundskraft. In a nail-biting dramatic clash Oresundskraft pulled away with a narrow 80:79 victory to take the lead. The visitors looked better in the second and third frames of the game building a 15-point advantage heading into the fourth frame. But the Vikings denied it and had a chance to save the game. But Oresundsktaft withstood all the efforts from the hosts to break in front and succeeded in the end. Jens Stalhandske nailed 24 points to lead Oresundskraft. Johan Akesson added 15 points for the winners. Rudy Mbemba chipped in 26 points for Solna. Lesli Myrthil had 16 points in defeat. |
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| Racing Lome is the new Togo Champion | |
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| | | After beating Swallow, the last champion, by 59-46, Racing of Lome his the new Togo national champion.
The championship is played in 3 days at the 'Lome Municipal Stade'.
Result from phase 1
Group A
Swallows vs Semassi: 68 - 48;
Semassi vs Racing Club: 37 - 58;
Racing vs Swallows: 43 - 34
Group B:
Modèle vs C7C: 61 - 41;
Leaders vs DYTO: 24 - 51;
Modele vs Leaders: 71 - 30;
Leaders vs C7C: 49 - 27;
DYTO vs Modèle: 33 - 42. |
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| Zone 3 from The Africa Championship clubs | |
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| | | With the teams of Zone 3 :
Swallow from Togo
ASPAC and Renaissence from Benin
ABC from Ivory Coast
Potters from Nigeria
Oilers from Liberia
RESULTS
Renaissance x Swallow 77-60
Aspac - Oilers 88-59
Rbbc - Aspac 51-63
Abc - Potters 64-69
Oilers - Swallows 71-63
Rbbc - Potters 63-94 |
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| African Club Championship-qualifiers to be held in Benin | |
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| | | The Beninese Basketball Federation (Fbbb) in collaboration with the club Renaissance organizes the preliminaries of the championship African Clubs Championships in the zone 3.
Teams that confirmed participation are Swallows of Togo, ABC Abidijan of the Ivory Coast, Braves of Ceps of Ghana, NPA Pythons of Liberia, Ebun Comets Lagos from Nigeria and host teams Renaissance and Aspac of Benin. The tournament is scheduled to start October 31st and to end November 10th in the captial Cotonou. |
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| Togolese championship started | |
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| | | Dyto received a 61-25 win mainly due to the efforts by their player Mustapha Gnaman over Blue Star.
In the other game, CBS faced Aiglons and the likes of Ogba Christian, Ayite Almeida and Michael Okorie on one side and Agnitey Adjete and Atayi Ayi on the other promised a tough match-up between the teams.
Aiglons led by 12 at halftime and managed to walk away with a 61-58 winner against ambitioned CBS.Still, team-captain Ayite of CBS hopes that his squad should bounce back from the loss and be a contender for the national championship. |
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| Swallows is the new Togo Champion | |
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| | | The national championship was played at Sokode in the countryside of Togo.
The teams : Modele, Racing, Swallows and CBS of Lome, Leaders of Kara, Semassi of Sokode and BBC of Bassar.
The final was played by Swallows and Modele. It was a very tough game and in the end Swallows win by 75-73.
Lawson Todo from Modele was crowned MVP of the season. |
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| Federation announcement | |
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| | | Damir Nicevic
A new player Artan Kurti. Big game !!! |
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| Neighbours Benin Basketball News | |
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| | | The FBBB (Benin Basketball Federation) announced, that the regional (Departmental) championships are going to start from December 1st until February 28th in 2006.The national championships are slated for the period of two months between June 1st and July 30th 2006.The governing body FBBB is going to decide which teams, depending on the regional championship results, are going to play in the first ,second and third divison.
Also, there are ambitions to organize the African Championships in 2007 , the financial issues regarding such a big project have to be evaluated first by the federation in order to secure the support by the government and the FIBA as well. |
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