BBL Trophy, Semi-Ultimate, Second Leg
London Lions 85-81 Bristol Flyers (19-21, 42-36, 66-63)
(Lions – Williams 22, Neighbour 17, Cugini 13; Flyers – Jacob 28, Delpeche 18, Miller 18)
(Lions win 166-142 on combination)
London Lions will defend the BBL Trophy that they received for the primary time final season, after beating Bristol Flyers 85-81 on the Copper Field Area, and by 24 factors on combination within the two-legged semi-final.
It units up a ultimate with Cheshire Phoenix on Sunday 20 March on the Emirates Area in Glasgow the place, shut to twenty years to the day, they are going to search to avenge a Trophy Ultimate defeat when each groups have been underneath completely different guises in 2002.
Needing to make up a 20-point deficit from the primary leg, Flyers have been decided all through – behind a 28-point haul from Trejon Jacob – and led early on, holding their largest lead at 21-16 in direction of the top of the primary interval.
Lions, nonetheless, then rattled off the primary 14 factors of the second stanza, holding their guests scoreless for over 4 minutes, as Will Neighbour and Dirk Williams scored 5 every and Lorenzo Cugini made it 33-21, and an insurmountable 32-point combination lead.
Flyers had yet another go late on, Jacob hitting a pair of three-pointers to top-and-tail a 13-3 burst that put them up 76-74 on the night time. But it surely was too little too late, as Williams tied the sport quickly after and triples from Julian Washburn and Justin Robinson settled the tie on the night time.
Williams led London’s scoring with 22 factors, whereas Neighbour contributed 17 off the bench and Robinson handed out eight assists.
