The Beirut Sports Club team defeated its guest Leaders by 8 points, with a score (107-99), in the postponed match of the first round of the first group of the quarter-finals of the Lebanese Basketball Championship, which was held in President Saeb Salam Hall in Al-Manara.
Coach Ahmed Farran, the coach of the winner, deliberately rationed his team’s effort physically as much as possible, so Wael Araqi missed knowing that he did not suffer from any injury, a measure he took as he was waiting for an important match once morest Beirut First, the first in the semi-finals of the West Asian Championship at ten in the evening next Wednesday. In the Fouad Nofal Complex in Zouk Mikael.
What was remarkable was the emergence of the stardom of the sports club player, Daniel Oshefu, despite the tendency to dispense with him, so he played his best match in Lebanon and scored 31 points with 11 rebounds and 4 assists, and from the Leaders, Christopher Khalil scored 28 points with 6 rebounds and two assists.
The victory is the second for the sports club in the group, to raise its score in second place to 43 points from 19 victories and 5 losses in its total score in the tournament, while Leaders suffered its third defeat in this round and the 15th in the entire tournament and became with 35 points in third place in the group.
Source: Tareq Moati (Al-Brigade website).
