Al
Riyadi Beirut crowns with 19th ACC trophy....... - May 8, 2006
- by
Eurobasket News2
Al Riyadi Beirut of Lebanon
deserved to be 1st in 19th Arab Clubs Championship which ended yesterday in
Rabat, Morocco after they won over Ittihad Jeddah of Saudi Arabia by 24 points
99-75, While RCA Casablanca took third after winning over Al Kuwait Club of
Kuwait 77-72.
Al Riyadi Beirut - Ittihad Jeddah Calvin
Warner (201-F/C-80, college:
Jacksonville)
played his best game ever with Al Riyadi Beirut and led his team to win over
Ittihad Jeddah of Saudi Arabia 99-75.
Calvin scored from all the ranges and places inside or outside the zone and
helped Ismail Ahmad and Joe Vogel to lead in the 1st quarter by 16 points 35-19.
In the 2nd quarter, Omar Turk and Ali Mahmoud made a big job in defense and
supplying their team-mates with easy balls to score from and tha made them be
the leaders of most parts of the game, 2nd quarter finished with 20 points lead
59-39.
The 3rd quarter, Al Riyadi Beirut's head coach Fouad Abu Shakra played with
Mazen Mneimneh and he made good game, But Ittihad Jeddah made the score range
only 13 in the last of this quarter 62-75, But Al Riyadi Beirut replied quickly
and made the range bigger and bigger till it arrived to 24 at last 99-75. Al Riyadi Beirut 99 - Ittihad Jeddah 75 (35-19, 59-39,
75-62 & 99-75) Best scorers in Al Riyadi Beirut:Calvin
Warner (201-F/C-80, college:
Jacksonville)
(37 points), Joe Vogel (23 points), Ismail Ahmad (20 points) Best scorers in Ittihad Jeddah: Art Long (34 points), Marlon Parmer (27
points)
RCA Casablanca - Al Kuwait Club
5 points difference was enough to give RCA Casablanca the 3rd place award after
beating Al Kuwait Club of Kuwait 77-72.
The 1st quarter was for the kuwaitis in playing and in the scoreboard after good
performanc from Osama Al Farhan and Chudney Gray who signed for Champville of
Lebanon to play in the final 4 only, The quarter ended 20-12 for Al Kuwait.
Things changed in 2d quarter, The control board went to RCA Casablanca who
finished the quarter for them 36-35 after huge effort from Hisham Amru Allah and
Adnan Musa'dieh.
The 3rd quarter was having changing in leading from time to time, But RCA
Casablanca lost the race bt 3 points 57-60, But the last quarter esspecially in
the last two minutes was for the Moroccans who were supported by big number of
fans to end the game by 5 points for them. RCA Casablanca 77 - Al Kuwait Club 72 (12-20, 36-35,
57-60 & 77-72) Best scorer in RCA Casablanca: Hisham Amru Allah (14 points) Best scorers in Al Kuwait Club: Osama Al Farhan (18 points), Chudney Gray
(16 points)
Al
Riyadi Beirut & Ittihad Jeddah to the final of 19th ACC - May 6, 2006
- by
Eurobasket News2
Lebanese Al Riyadi Beirut and
Ittihad Jeddah of Saudi Arabia succeeded to qualify to the final of 19th Arab
Clubs, Al Riyadi Beirut qualified after beating RCA Casablanca in Semi-Final
95-63, While Ittihad beated Al Kuwait 90-84 in the other semi-final game.
Al Riyadi Beirut - RCA Casablanca
32 points were between RCA Casablanca and Al Riyadi Beirut who won the game
95-63 in a one side game despite that the moroccan team played behind his big
fans in Bou Azawi court in Rabat, Morocco.
RCA Casabalanca were good oponent against Al Riyadi Beirut esspecially in the
1st 6 minutes of the 1st quarter, But Ismail Ahmad gave his team the lead 5
points at end 23-18. Omar
Turk (184-G-81, college:
Dawson Coll.)
made 7 3-pts only in the 2nd quarter which gave his team the lead by 25 points
with help from Ismail Ahmad and Hussein Tawbe to finishe dthe quarter 56-31.
Al Riyadi Beirut's Head Coach Fouad Abu Shakra gave his youth players as Hasan
Lakkis, Mazen Mneimneh, Ali Fakheridine & Abdallah Hijazi to play, They kept the
difference the same till the end of the game which ended 95-63 for the yellows. Al Riyadi Beirut 95 - RCA Casablancs 63 (23-18, 56-31,
78-43 & 95-63) Best scorers in Al Riyadi Beirut:Omar
Turk (184-G-81, college:
Dawson Coll.)
(22 points), Ismail Ahmad (16 points) Best scorers in RCA Casablanca: Mounir Bou Helal (16 points), Motopenza
(9 points)
Ittihad Jeddah - Al Kuwait Club
In the other game of Semi-Final, Things were different as there was a big
competition game between Al Ittihad Jeddah of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Club from
Kuwait which ended for the 1st 90-84.
The 1st quarter beginning was for Ittihad who made a big 11-0 run in the 1st 3
minutes, But the reply was quickly from the kuwaitis by scoring 8 points, But
Ittihad retunrned to breathe again to finish the 1st quarter by 7 points 28-21.
Best quarter in the game for Kuwait Club was the 2nd quarter, The experience of
Yahia Al Bahar & Chudney Gray who scored 14 points in this quarter only to end
it by 3 points lead for them 48-45.
The big effort which Kuwait club players made against ASS Sale reflects on their
perofrmance in last 2 quarter of Ittihad's game, They became tired and fittness
difference was for the saidis who won the game by 6 points only 90-84. Ittihad Jeddah 90 - Al Kuwait Club 84 (28-21, 48-45,
70-61 & 90-84) Best scorer in Ittihad Jeddah: Adel Juhani (27 points) Best scorer in Kuwait Club: Chudney Gray (29 points)
The final game will be held on sunday in Bou Azzawi Court in Rabat, Morocco live
on Futute TV and Saudi Sport TV at 3 pm GMT.
Day
8 of 19th ACC games results - May 5, 2006
- by
Eurobasket News2
In the 3rd day of the second round
which began in the 6th day of Arab clubs championship which is held in Morocco
in its 19 edition, 4 games were made.......
Al Kuwait Club - ASS Sale Al Kuwait club made a fantastic result and let the hosts of the
tournament ASS Sale being out from the tournament after beating them with big
difficulty 64-63 in fron tof 4 thousad fans for ASS Sale, By this win Al Kuwait
club qualified to semi-final to meet Ittihad Jeddah of Saudi Arabia.
The two teams began the game with balanced performance in both offense and
defense as both teams were changing the lead of the game till the end of it
except the 2nd quarter which was nearly to the kuwaitis after the bright
performance of Osama Al Farhan, Rashed Al Rabbah, Chudney Gray and Eddie Elisma,
But things returned to as it was due to the dinamic effort from the duo Zakaria
Al Misbahi and Mustapha dedush, But Chudney Gray with his good experience gave
his team the important win and desreved the qualfication to semi-final. Al Kuwait Club 64 - ASS Sale 63 (20-18, 37-30, 47-45 &
64-63) Best scorer in Al Kuwait Club: Chudney Gray (34 points) Best scorer in ASS Sale: Mustapha Dedush (26 points)
Ittihad Jeddah - RCA Casablanca
Ittihad of Saudi Arabia finished the 2nd round of the tournament with a win
against the moroccan side RCA Casabalna by 8 oints 87-79.
Each team secured their apearance in semi-finals, So both teams began slowly to
play with the bench but with awarnese to not meet Al Riyadi Beirut in the
semi-game, So Ittihad Jeddah were so focused and willing to win due to their
good imports and local players esspecially
Ali Al
Maghribi (200-F-75, agency:
GT
Sports) who starred in this game in defense and offense and helped the
imports Art Long & Malon Parmer alot in the game.
From RCA side, Mounir Bou Helal and Mustafa Al Khalfi were doing good game and
they were trying all the time to close the gap and succeeded at last to make it
8 only. Ittihad Jeddah 87 - RCA Casablanca 79 (22-11, 47-36,
65-59 & 87-79) Best scorer in Ittihad Jeddah:Ali Al
Maghribi (200-F-75, agency:
GT
Sports) (22 points) Best scorer in RCA Casablanca: Mounir Bou Helal (18 points)
Al Riyadi Beirut - Arena
Al Riyadi Beirut ,without Ismail Ahmad and Omar Turk who their coach Fouad Abu
Chakra prefered to rest them, Made an easy win their youth players over Arena of
Jordan 113-89.
The victims Arena who were officially out from the tournament from last stage
but they tried to play well, The team head coach Gheith Najjar played with his
imports Chad Hendrick & Clarence Thrash only in the 1st quarters, The brothers
Islam and Zeid Abbas were the best in arena's side after scoring together 48
points for their team, While from Al Riyadi Beirut side, Their youth player
Mazen Mneimneh were doing one of his best game sin his career in Men's games
after he succeeded to make 6 3-pts shots, Clavin Warner and Ali Fakheridine
played also a big game from the lebanese team who made the range in some parts
of the game 33 points, But the good effort from the brothers Abbas with Naser
Bassam and Nidal Shareef made it only 24 at last 113-89. Al Riyadi Beirut 113 - Arena 89 (34-22, 67-42, 91-60 &
113-89) Best scorer in Al Riyadi Beirut: Mazen Mneimneh (29 points) Best scorers in Arena: Zeid Abbas (24 points), Islam Abbas (24 points)
Al Muharraq - Ittihad Aleppo
Bahraini Al Muharraq Club could not alter their fate in their failed bid for the
Championships, even after ending the tournament on a high with a 101-90 victory
over Ittihad Aleppo Club of Syria in their final game of the quarerfinals,
played yesterday afternoon in Morocco.
Muharraq were eliminated from final-four contention after suffering two losses
on Tuesday and Wednesday against Group B teams Ettihad of Saudi Arabia and Raja
of Morocco, which meant that yesterday’s contest was a no-bearing encounter.
Four of Muharraq’s stars finished the game in double figures, with Mohammed
Hassan leading,Rah-Shaun Robert and Hakim Mousa helped him to make this win,
while Haji Sulaiman finished with Ahmed Mutawa and Faraj Abdulla were doing good
game.
Muharraq bounced back from a poor first-quarter start to head into the half with
a 13-point lead, 48-35. They then widened their margin after the third and built
a 79-61 advantage, then finished off their rivals in the fourth for the 101-90
win.
From Ittihad Aleppo's side, Salah Al Shawa were showing good performance with
Lamine Diawara and Earnest Bell but that did'nt help them to win despite they
joind Al Muharaq out of the tournament. Al Muharraq 101 - Ittihad Aleppo 90 (20-20, 48-35, 79-61
& 101-90) Best scorer in Al Muharraq: Mohammed Hassan (31 points) Best scorer in Ittihad Aleppo: Salah Al Shawa (17 points)
Semi-Final games which will be played today with TV
schedule:
RCA Casablanca - Al Riyadi Beirut (Live on Future TV on 6:30 PM GMT)
Ittihad Jeddah - Al Kuwait (Live on Saudi Sport on 4 PM GMT)
Day
7 of 19th ACC games results - May 4, 2006
- by
Eurobasket News2
In the 2nd day of the second round
which began in the 6th day of Arab clubs championship which is held in Morocco
in its 19 edition, 4 games were made.......
Ittihad Jeddah - Ittihad Aleppo
Ittihad Jeddah of Saudi Arabia cut officially their way to semi-final of 19th
ACC after beating Ittihad Aleppo of Syria 81-66.
Ittihad Jeddah was out of shape in the 1st quarter after good perofrmance and
technic from Ittihad Aleppo's players esspecially the team's veteran Mohammed
Abu Saada and the Malian player Lamine Diawara, But from the beginning of the
2nd quarter the saudis recollected their papers and showed a new face with
storms of offense and good defense from them to make the lead and making big
range at the same time, 12 points in the 1st half 44-32, This lead was made from
Marlon Parmer, Ali Al Maghrabi, Art Long and Adel al Juhnani.
In the last two quarters, The syrian team tried to enter the game again and that
was applied only in some parts of the 3rd quarter after making the range from 12
to 4 only but that was for a small while, Art Long and Marlon Parmer helped the
team again to be back on track and suceeded to finish the game by 15 points
81-66. Ittihad Jeddah 81 - Ittihad Aleppo 66 (18-23, 44-32,
61-54 & 81-66) Best scorers in Ittihad Jeddah: Marlon Parmer (28 points), Art Long
(20 points), Ali Al Maghrabi (18 points), Adel Al Juhani (14 points) Best scoers in Ittihad Aleppo: Mohammed Abu Saada (22 points), Lamine
Diawara (16 points)
RCA Casablanca - Al Muharraq
RCA Casablanca is nearer than before to qualify to the semi-final of ACC after
beating their direct revlas to this seast Bahraini Al Muharraq by 15 points
75-60 in an average perfromance game from both sides.
Moroccan RCA Casablanca players entered more concentrated and focused after his
fan support in the court, Mounir Bou Helal, Motopenza and Adnan Musa'dieh were
doing a big games and helped their team to keep the gap at least 8 points in
most of the game, Al Muharraq's Nigirian-Bahraini palyers Hakeem Mubarak, Faraj
Abdalla made a good role in the game for Al Muharraq and scored many important
points with Mohammed Hassan the team captain. RCA Casablanca 75 - Al Muharraq 60 (14-6, 33-27, 47-47 &
75-60) Best scorers in RCA Casablanca: Mounir Bou Helal (17 points), Adnan
Muysa'dieh (15 points) Best scorers in Al Muharraq: Hakeem Mubarak (21 points), Mohammed Hassan
(20 points)
Al Riyadi Beirut - ASS Sale
Al Riyadi Beirut stopped the winning streak of ASS sale the hosts in the
tournament after beating them but after big effort 95-88, By this win Al Riyadi
Beirut are now the only unbeatable team in the tournament and secured their
qualification to semi-final of the tournament.
ASS Sale fans were behind their team all the time and that made some pressue to
the titleholders who were playing well most of the time and depressed the hosts
many times and that let them to lead in important times after good performance
from Omar Turk who scored 8 3-pts, Ismail Ahmad was the helper of the team after
scoring 8 consecutive points in the last quarter, Zakaria Al Misbahi and mustafa
dedush were the best in the moroccan side after making together 8-3pts devided
equaly between them. Al Riyadi Beirut 95 - ASS Sale 88 (35-25, 53-47, 70-66 &
95-88) Best scorer in Al Riyadi Beirut: Omar Turk (24 points) Best scorer in ASS Sale: Zakaria Al Misbahi (28 points)
Al Kuwait Club - Arena Arena lost hopes to qualify to semi-final of ACC after loosing
from Al Kuwait club 80-75 in tough game between the both sides.
The beginning was as a hurricane for Al Kuwait club after great communitcations
between Chudney Gray, Osama Al Farhan and
Eddie
Elisma (205-F/C-75, college:
Georgia Tech)
which made Arena players freezed with doing a weak defense.
Arena's Nidal Shareef, Naser Bassam and Clarence Thrash were doing good game in
everything but their team-mates did'nt let them to achive their goals.
Yahia Al Bahar the veteran player in Al Kuwait club were a star after scoring
5-3pts in the game.
The qualifier to the semi-final with Al Riyadi will be decided in today's game
between Al Kuwait and ASS Sale club as the both teams has same chances to
qualify to the second round despite ASS favourity as they are playing in their
court and behind their fans. Al Kuwait club 80 - Arena 75 (24-14, 40-34, 59-52 &
80-75) Best scorers in Al Kuwait club:Eddie
Elisma (205-F/C-75, college:
Georgia Tech)
(17 points), Yahia Al Bahar (15 points) Best scorer in Arena: Nidal Shareef (23 points)
Today's games:
Al Kuwait club - ASS Sale
Al Riyadi Beirut - Arena
RCA Casablanca - Ittihad Jeddah
Al Muharraq - Ittihad Aleppo
Day
6 of 19th ACC games results - May 3, 2006
- by
Eurobasket News2
In the 1st day of the second round
began in the 6th day of Arab clubs championship which is held in Morocco in its
19 edition, 4 games were made.......
Al Riyadi Beirut - Al Kuwait Club
Al Riyadi Beirut made their 5th consecutive win in ACC after making their 1st
win in 2nd round of the tournament over Kuwaiti club Al Kuwait 95-76.
Al Kuwait began strongley in the 1st quarter but that was'nt for a long time as
the lebanese began to enter the game quickly after the big performance from
Calvin Warner, Ismail Ahmad and
Ali
Mahmoud (182-G-83).
In the last two quarters, The lebanese began to increase the score to make it 30
but Al Kuwait club players tried their best and succeeded to make the range only
19 at last 95-66. Al Riyadi Beirut 95 - Al Kuwait club 76 (23-17, 45-26,
71-50 & 95-76) Best scorers in Al Riyadi Beirut: Calvin Warner (21 points),
Ali
Mahmoud (182-G-83) (17 points), Ismail Ahmad (13 points) Best scorers in Al Kuwait Club: Chudney Gray (20 points), Fahed Al Rabbah
(13 points)
ASS Sale - Arena
ASS Sale the hosts made a big win in their 2nd round oppening game over
Jordanian Arena 92-72 in one side game esspecially in the last quarter.
Arena began the game with great performance,The most active were Chad Hendrick,
Ghazi Naber & Clarence Thrash but that did'nt resume in the rest quarters as the
moroccan team controled in all the rythem of the game and succeeded to stop the
moves of Chad and Ghazi, Mustafa Dedush and Zakaria Al Misbahi were the best in
their team as whole and helped them to mage the gap bigger and bigger to make it
20 at last which was the biggest range 92-72 ASS Sale 92 - Arena 72 (23-25, 48-42, 68-53 & 92-72) Best scorers of ASS Sale: Mustafa Dedush (23 points), Mohammed Mowaq
(23 points), Zakaria Al Misbahi (21 points), Abdoulaye Sow (20 points) Best scorers of Arena: Chad Hendrick (23 points), Ghazi Naber (20
points), Clarence Thrash (13 points)
RCA Casablanca - Ittihad Aleppo
RCA Casablanca made their 1st surprise in the tournament after beating Ittihad
Aleppo -who were the most favorite to win- by 4 points 65-61.
The moroccan team entered the game more concentrated than Ittihad Aleppo who
were like a lost in the 1st quarter.
Salah Al Shawa and Lamine Diawara were the players in the Syrian team while from
the other side, All the morrocan team players were doing big performance
esspecially from the duo Mounir Bou Helal and Adnan Musa'dieh who succeeded to
guarantee the win for the greens at the end. RCA Casablanca 65 - Ittihad Aleppo 61 (26-13, 37-35,
59-42 & 65-61) Best scorers in RCA Casablanca: Adnan Musa'dieh (12 points), Mounir
Bou Helal (12 points) Best scorer in Ittihad Aleppo: Salah Al Shawa (19 points)
Ittihad Jeddah - Al Muharraq Ittihad of Saudi Arabia made it and beated Al Muharraq with 9
points advantage 83-74......
Al Muharraq were playing more better from the saudis in the 1st quarter after
the huge effort from Mohammed Hassan and Hakeem Mubarak, But that did'nt
continue as Ittihad Jeddah played well in the 3rd and 4th quarter and tried
their best to make the gap bigger which they succeeded in that esspecially in
the 4th quarter which was one-sided most of the minutes.
Muharraq's Rah-Shun Roberts was'nt so effective at first but lastley his move
were more apeared and scored many points inside and outside, Ittihad's Art Long
and Bahraini's Ahmad Al Mutawa were fouled-out in the game.
“The team is OK after the loss,” Bahrain Basketball Association (BBA) Assistant
Secretary General, Abdulredha Qurban said, “They came to the game and tried
their best. They have nothing to be ashamed of. I’m sure that everybody’s OK and
inshaallah, I believe we can beat Raja,” he concluded. Ittihad Jeddah 83 - Al Muharraq 74 (19-21, 42-38, 64-60 &
83-74) Best scorers in Ittihad Jeddah:Marlon Parmer (22 points),
Art Long (20 points) Best scorers in Al Muharraq: Mohammed Hassan (23 points), Ruh-Shun
Roberts (16 points)
Today's games:
Arena - Al Kuwait
Al Riyadi Beirut - ASS Sale
Ittihad Jeddah - Ittihad Aleppo
RCA Casablanca - Al Muharraq
In the 5th day of Arab clubs championship which is held in Morocco in its 19
edition, 4 games were made.......
Arena - Al Nasr Sabkha
Arena made their 2nd consecutive time to get best third in their group and
qualified to the 2nd round....
The team from Jordan knew how they turn the dynamic spirit of the Mauritanian
team Al Nasr Sabkha to his side as they applied a strong defensive plan to
prevent the opposite from scoring inside as the mauritanian players are popular
in strong moves with some force.
Clarence Thrash (205-C/F-72, college:
UAB) was the
team star in defense and offense esspecially in rebounds and scoring important
points with the help of Islam Abbas and sometimes his Zeid Abbas (Islam's
brother) under the baskets, In the time that Ghazi Naber, Chad Hendrick & Naser
Bassam are doing good job from outside.
Gheith Najjar Arena's head coach tried all his players in this game, Abdalla
Ramini, Louai Najjar, Nidal Shareef & Khaldoon Abu Rukayeah were having good
game also.
Mohammed Job and Bashir Timbo were the best in the mauritanian side but that
did'nt help them to end the game by 25 points range for the jordanians 83-60.
Arena 83 - Al Nasr Sabkha 60 (27-13, 46-34, 73-48 &
83-60) Best scorers in Arena:
Clarence Thrash (205-C/F-72, college:
UAB) (19
points), Chad Hendrick (16 points) Best scroer in Al Nasr Sabkha: Bashir Timbo (23 points)
Al Riyadi Beirut - Dohuk The game between Al Riyadi Beirut and Dohuk from Iraq did not
reach the happy ending as the Iraqi team felt so out of competency and withdrew
from its game against Riyadi who was leading 44-9 in just the first few minutes
of the game and found itself obliged to quit and race to the airport to catch a
flight back to Iraq.
Al Kuwait - Ittihad Aleppo
Chudney Gray again improved that he deserves to be the best import in this
tournament after leading his team Al Kuwait from Kuwait to an important win over
Al Ittihad Aleppo 84-77, After this win they got the 2nd place in the 2nd group
and left the best 3rd place to Ittihad Alppo who qualified with Arena of Jordan
as best third from three teams got third (Al Shabab of Libya left the tournament
after not choosing them to the 2nd round).
Back to the game, Ittihad played strongley as their import Lamine Diawara and
Firas Al Masri were having good match with the veteran Ammar Kassas who was so
successful in 3-pts shooting as he score 3 3-pts in the game, But Chudney Gray,
Eddie Elisma and Salem Al Inazi said their word at last to win the game 7
points.
Al Kuwait's Osama Al Farhan did'nt play due to small injury. Al Kuwait 84 - Ittihad Aleppo 77 (21-17, 46-37, 63-58,
84-77) Best scorer in Al Kuwait Club: Chudney Gray (34 points) Best scroers in Ittihad Aleppo: Lamine Diawara (16 points), Ammar Kassas
(13 points)
WA Boufarik - Ittihad Jeddah
Itthad Jeddah who played with his subtitutes only lost their game over the
Algerian team WA Boufarik 73-66 in a strong game despite that.
Ittihad's coach Daniel Maffei preferred to played with the 2nd team after they
qualified officially as 1st in their 2nd group, While WA Boufarik was searching
for their 1st win in the tournament which at last they found after the good
performance from the tall player Hisham Shargi, with Abdel Aziz Al Rabbahi &
Abdel Halim Kawwan.
Saad Kaabi, Jaber Al Shamrani and Hashem Al Fotawi the players who used to sit
on the bench were starring last night and helped thier team to decrease the
score as much as they can but that did'nt let them to win but loosing by 7
points at last. WA Boufarik 73 - Ittihad Jeddah 66 (25-14, 47-33, 57-51 &
73- 66) Best scorers in WA Boufarik: Abdel Aziz Al Rabbahi (16 points),
Hisham Shargi (13 points), Abdel Halim Kawwan (12 points) Best scorers in Ittihad Jeddah: Jaber Al Shamrani (13 points), Saad Kaabi
(11 points), Ali Al Maghrabi (10 points).
-The second round will divide the qualifying teams into
two groups: #Group A
Arena - Jordan
Al Kuwait Club - Kuwait
ASS Sale - Morocco (The Hosts)
Al Riyadi Beirut - Lebanon #Group B Ittihad Jeddah - Saudi Arabia
Ittihad Aleppo - Syria
Al Muharraq - Bahrain
RCA Casablanca - Morocco
The 1st two teams which take more points in each group will qualify to the semi
final as the 1st of Group A will meet 2nd in Group B, And 1st Group B will meet
the 2nd in Group A.
Today's games: Ittihad Aleppo - RCA Casablanca
Al Riyadi Beirut - Al Kwuait Club
Ittihad Jeddah - Al Muharraq
Arena - ASS Sale
-TV broadcasting:
Future TV of Lebanon agreed with the local Moroccan TV to broadcast the
tournament game sfrom the beginning of the 2nd round, Saudi Sport Channel ,
Kuwait Sport Channel and Local Moroccan TV were broadcasting the game live from
the start of the tournament.
Day
4 of 19th ACC games results - May 1, 2006
- by
Eurobasket News2
In the 4th day of Arab clubs
championship which is held in Morocco in its 19 edition, 5 games were
made.......
Arena - Dohuk
Arena made their 1st win after 2 losses in the ACC after beating Dohuk of Iraq
107-82 in a one side game.......
As usual, Arena began the game with Abdalla Ramini in play making, Chad Hendrik
& Ghazi Naber in the parameters and Islam Abbas with Clarence Thrash inside the
zone, While the iraqi team was depending on the moves of Ali Ghanem, Daniel
Dajic & Mattias Johansson and succeeded in some parts to put the game to thier
side but that was'nt for a long time, Arena started to control the game by
increasing to end the 1st quarter 24-18.
The subtitutions of Arena's coach Gheith Najjar gave team new spirit after the
good performance from Nidal Shareef, Khaldoon Abo Rukayeah & Fadi Yaghmour and
that let them to end the 1st half with 8 point in the pocket 46-38.
In the last two quarters,Iraqi dohuk in the beginning tried to give the ball to
the tall center johansson to utilize his height but they did'nt succeed after
making a district move from Zeid Abbas who was behind the big range in the last
of the 3rd quarter 77-59.
After the entering of Louai Najjar, Arena remained in increasing the score
minute after minute till it arrived to 25 points at last 107-82 for the
jordanian representatives. Arena now may qualify to 2nd round as best third
place , the tournament technical comittee will choose only 2 teams who took
third place from the three groups, Arena and Ittihad Aleppo of Syria are nearer
to that. Arena - Dohuk (24-18, 46-38, 77-59 & 107-82) Best scroers in Arena: Chad Hendrick (23 points), Clarence Thrash (17
points) Best scorer in Dohuk: Daniel Dajic (19 points)
Al Riyadi Beirut - Al Muharraq
Al Riyadi Beirut secured the 1st place of the Group 3 after crushing the
bahraini team Al Muharraq 125-91!!!!!
The game were managed from one side only, The 1st quarrter stars were Omar Turk
& Joe Vogel, They scored together 30 points from the 41 points of the 1st
quarter!!!!!
Ismail Ahmad the egyption pharone was saying his ward to the ryhm in the 2nd
quarter,He scored from all the ranges and places inside and outside the zone.
In the 3rd quarter the turn was to the american guy Calvin Warner the plane who
don't stop flying to the basket, He made all the styles of dunks and Al Muharraq
players are looking !!!!!!
The 4th quarter's title was for Mazen Mneimneh who started his points from zero
till the end when he made 19!!!!!
The Bahraini players were so lost and had big lack in comunications between each
other but that did'nt stop Ahmad Al Mutawa to put his name in best performance
from Al Muharraq in the game. Al Riyadi Beirut 125 - Al Muharraq 91 (41-20, 78-42 &
107-58) Best scorers in Al Riyadi Beirut: Calvin Warner (23 points), Ismail
Ahmad (21 points), Mazen Mneimneh (19 points), Omar Turk 15 points, Joe Vogel 15
points Best scorer in Al Muharraq: Ahmad Al Mutawa (23 points)
ASS Sale - RCA Casablanca
A local game in an arabic tournament, The two moroccan teams were face to face
to know the 1st and 2nd in the group as they qualified together to the 2nd
round, The hosts ASS Sale made it over RCA Casablanca and won at them by 8
points 67-59.
The imports were the stars of the game from the two teams, As Sale's import
Abdoulaye Pape Sow began to score points and Motopenza the congolese player of
RCA Casablanca replies on him, And the same with Fabrice Moussounda (ASS) and
Tiam Doudou (RCA).
Adnan Musa'dieh tried to save his team from a big loss after the big performance
of the hosts who started to open all the engines to score as much as they can to
secure the 1st place of the group and they succeeded to make it 8 points at last
and qualify as 1st in the group and let RCA Casablance to be 2nd. ASS Sale 67 - RCA Casablanca 59 (18-17, 26-23, 45-43 &
67-59) Best scorer in ASS Sale: Abdoulaye Pape Sow (17 points) Best scorer in RCA Casablanca: Tiam Doudou (26 points)
Ittihad Aleppo - WA Boufarik
Ittihad Aleppo (Group 2) is around to qualify as best third along side with
Arena (Group 3) after they won on their 3rd place rivals Algerian Widad Boufarik
91-88 in a very close game.
Syrian team's import
Lamine
Diawara (206-C-71, agency:
China-Hoop)
was the big boss of the game after controling in rebounds and scoring in the
both basket, The same player gave his team the win at last by scoring nice
and-one play in the last second after it was tied 88-88.
Abdelhamid Kaouane and Garouk Djellali were so effective from WA Boufarik as
they made big role in 3rd quarter which they were leading in is some parts from
it by 7 points but they did'nt save it, Salah Al Shawa & Earnest Bell were
having good day in 3-pts shooting accuracy as they made only 5 3-pts together in
the 3rd quarter.
4th quarter was so hot as each team were having turns in scoring but at last
Lamine said his word to give Ittihad Aleppo the win by 3 points only. Ittihad Aleppo 91 - WA Boufarik 88 (19-14, 47-46, 65-65 & 91-88) Best scorer in Ittihad Aleppo:Lamine
Diawara (206-C-71, agency:
China-Hoop)
(36 points !!!) Best scorer in WA Boufarik:Farouk Djellali (25 points)
Today's games:
Arena - Al Nasr Sabkha
Al Riyadi Beirut - Dohuk
Al Kuwait - Ittihad Aleppo
Ittihad Jeddah - WA Boufarik
Day
3 of 19th ACC games results - Apr 30, 2006
- by
Eurobasket News2
In the 3rd day of Arab clubs championship which is held in Morocco in its 19
edition, 5 games were made.......
Muharraq - Arena
Muharraq basketball team from Bahrain shocked the Jordanian representative Arena
and won at them 96-88.
Arena team did'nt succeed to stop the bahraini fire on the jordanian basket and
that apeared more in last two quarters by moves from the bahraini Mohammed
Hassan with naturalized players Faraj Abdalla and Abdalla Sulaiman with the
other naturalized one Hakeem Moussa.
Fadi Yaghmour was the more concentrated player in the whole game from Arena side
with some good moves from Chad Hendrick, Ghazi Naber & Clarence Trash who was
playing better from the last game and found some more help from his team-mate
under the rhym Islam Abbas.
Despite the less experience from the bahraini team in big games but the good
management from the head coach Bruce Wilson of the game and the good lead from
the point guart Abdalla Sulaiman gave them a combfortable win by 8 points 96-88. Al Muharraq 96 - Arena 88 (24-23, 47-43, 69-64 & 96-88) Best scorer in Al Muharraq: Mohammed Hassan (35points)
Best scorer in Arena: Chad Hendrick (22 points)
Ittihad Jeddah - Al Kuwait
Ittihad Jeddah knew how to stop the waves of Al Kuwait club on their basket from
the 1st quarter despite the good performance from
Chudney
Gray (190-G-78, agency:
Passing Lane, college:
St.John's),
Osama Al Farhan & Eddie Elisma in transition defense and offense but that was'nt
for a long time after the nice comunication between Marlon Parmer and Art long
in most of the teams balls in the Kuwaiti zone, That made them to increase the
gap quickly,Al Kuwait team at last began to recollect their papers and made them
to make the game tie in 8 times and in one time they made the margin 10 points
in the middle of the 2nd quarter, But the expeience of Art Long and Ali Al
Maghrabi forced Osama Al Farhan make 4 fouls and that was enough to stop his
effeciency at least in defense.
In the last two quarters, Things turned for Ittihad Jeddah side as they tried in
all the ways to score esspecially from the parameters Jaber Al Shamrani and Adel
Juhani and from the centers Al Maghrabi and Art Long who scored 3 time from
3-pts arc. Chudney
Gray (190-G-78, agency:
Passing Lane, college:
St.John's)
of Kuwait was doing a big game form Al Kuwait as he was scoring most of his
team's points along side with Salem Al Inazi the young player who was more
effective after Osama Al Farhan's fouls-out but Ittihad Jeddah's concentration
to win were more and ended the game with 8 points gap 101-93. Ittihad Jeddah 101 - Al Kuwait 93 (18-22, 49-50, 87-69 &
101-93) Best scorers in Ittihad Jeddah: Marlon Parmer (34 points), Art Long (28
points)
Best scorers in Al Kuwait club:
Chudney
Gray (190-G-78, agency:
Passing Lane, college:
St.John's)
(38 points), Salem Al Inazi (17 points)
RCA Casablanca - Nezwa
RCA Casablanca exploded it as they had the biggest gap in the tournament after
winning 108-39 in a one sidegame!!!!!!!
RCA Casablanca were having as training session against Nezwa of Oman who needs a
long time to have the experience of the game plus they were loosing David Akira
the kenyan import due to an injury in his foot, All that made the moroccan side
have a nice trip in the omani basket esspecially from Mounir Bouhelal and Adnan
Musa'dieh who scored togther 34 points and made together everything in
basketball world in ways of play and shows of dunks,All the 12 players played in
the game.
The congolese player Motopenza were singing alone as he made alone for himself
33 points. RCA Casablanca 108 - Nezwa 39 (30-08, 49-12, 80-30 &
108-39) Best scorers in RCA Casablanca: Motopenza (33 points), Adnan Musa'dieh (18
points), Mounir Bou Helal (16 points)
Best scorers in Nezwa: Qasem Al Qusaymi (11 points), Patrick Albert (10 points)
ASS Sale - Al Shabab
ASS Sale the tounament hosts and Al Shabab's game main title was low scoring as
the two teams did'nt score in the whole game more than 108 points together, and
the major thing that the both teams did'nt score more than 7 points in the 2nd
quarter!!!!!
Despite that the two teams were having good defense and stopped the offensive
mechines to score from the both teams, ASS Sale players were the most effectable
in the game esspecially from the Dodush Morad who were starring for the 2nd
consecutive game while from the libyan side, Mohammed Issa and Islam Karbal
played well but that did'nt help them to win but the opposite the range became
18 at past 63-45. ASS Sale 63 - Al Shabab 45 (21-20, 24-24, 52-36 & 63-45) Best scorer in ASS Sale: Abdoulaye Pape Sow (15 points)
Best scorer in Al Shabab: Islam Kerbal (13 points)
Today's games:
-Bou Azzazi Court:
Al Riyadi Beirut - Al Muharraq
Ittihad Aleppo - WA Boufarik
ASS Sale - RCA Casablanca -Ben Yassin Court: Arena - Dohuk
Al Shabab - Nezwa
