22nd March 2008 PAWS London Capital 62-79 Sheffield Sharks

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Game details:-

Venue: Capital City Academy

Competition:- BBL Championship

Tip-off:- 7.30pm

Quarterscores:- 10-22, 27-36, 42-61

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Final result:- 62-79

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Top Scorers:

Capital: Gariba 27, Henry-Fontaine 11, Knight 11

Sharks: Whyte 18, Virgil 16, Niesler 15

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The Sheffield Sharks ended a run of three successive defeats, and also avenged two previous league defeats to the PAWS London Capital, as they beat the Londoners by 62-79.

The win strengthened Sheffield's position in the top eight, the Playoff spots, and has almost made it a mathematical impossibility for the Capital to qualify for the post-season in their maiden campaign in the Britain's top flight.

James Whyte led the scoring for the victors with 18 points, whilst the backcourt pairing of Alto Virgil and Nathan Niesler added 16 and 15 respectively. Ibrahim Gariba led the resistance with a game-high 27 points.

The Sharks led from the early stages as three-pointers from Niesler and Virgil contributed to an early 16-5 run that gave them a 7-18 lead, which became 10-22 after the opening ten minutes.

The hosts came back in the second stanza as a 10-2 tear narrowed the gap to 24-28, but that would be as close as Sheffield would allow them to get as the visitors responded immediately by rattling off the next 7 points, going in 27-36 to the good at the half.

The game was put beyond the hosts early in the third period as Sheffield posted a 20-5 surge, including 5 crucial points from Whyte and numerous trips to the free-throw line. The lead peaked early in the fourth quarter as the Sharks scored the first 8 points and led 42-69. The Capital fought back from that point behind 7 points from Pierre Henry-Fontaine and 7 from Gariba, but the closest they could get was 60-76 in the final minute.

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