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    FIBA Africa - Senegal, Tunisia, Nigeria keep clean slate

    LUANDA (FIBA Africa Championship) - Group-B top team, Senegal today in Lubango recorded its second staright win afterseeing off Cote d'Ivoire by 75-65 points to stay on top of the group and a sure bet for a place in the quarter-finals. Senegal who parades a crack team made mainly of foreign-based players with Nigeria former tactician, Sam Vincent as ...

    LUANDA (FIBA Africa Championship) - Group-B top team, Senegal today in Lubango recorded its second staright win afterseeing off Cote d'Ivoire by 75-65 points to stay on top of the group and a sure bet for a place in the quarter-finals.

    Senegal who parades a crack team made mainly of foreign-based players with Nigeria former tactician, Sam Vincent as their coach out-score Mali 85-70 points in its opening group game Friday before defeating the Ivoiries today to set up a last group game against 9th All Africa Games silver medallist, Egypt on Sunday.

    Host Angola will take on Cape Verde today in a top of the bill group-A game while Morocco and Rwanda will do battle in Benguela, group-B other match will be between Mali and Egypt in Lubango while Nigeria was said to have recorded its second win over Romain Sato's Central Africa Republicin group-C but the details of the scores was not available as at the time of filling in this report, Liberia and DR Congo completing the group game on match day-2.

    In Group-D Tunisia also posted a second win with a 73-61 points win over Mozambique to keep a clean slate a sure spot in the last eight while Cameroon will do battle aginst South Africa.

    Results of match-day1:
    Angola 109-66 Rwanda
    Cape Verde 85-80 Morocco
    Senegal 85-70 Mali
    Egypt 73-65 Cote d'Ivoire
    Nigeria 109-35 Liberia
    Central Africa 66-58 DR Congo
    Cameroon 66-54 Mozambique
    Tunisia 72-66 South Africa

    Day-2 Results:
    Senegal 75-65 Cote d'Ivoire
    Tunisia 73-61 Mozambique 

    By Olusegun Ikuesan
    FIBA Official correspondent in Angola

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