First Bank Basketball Club Targets Winning Streak

The Coach of First Bank Basketball Club of Lagos Adewunmi Aderemi, has given assurance of his team’s readiness to emerge champion of the remaining two phases of the Zenith Bank Female Basketball league.

First Deepwater Basketball Club of Lagos won the first phase of the league by beating five times winner, First Bank to the second place in March in Kaduna.

The 10 team format league was also won last year by First Deep Water.

Aderemi told newsmen in Lagos that the team would do “everything humanly possible’’ to emerge winner of the remaining two phases, saying that coming second in the first phase was an aberration.

“We are going to clinch all the available points at stake in the second and third phase of the league,” he said.

According to Aderemi, the club’s coaching crew is putting the girls through rigorous training in order to ensure victory at the end of the league.

“We resumed training last week Monday after a one-week break from the first phase of the league,’’ he said.

Aderemi said the performance of the players dwindled at the first phase because of the young players the club recently recruited to beef up the team.

“We only have five experienced players in the team now, but I want to assure you that our young players now are the teams for the future.

“Although, I am not happy about our performance, coming second in the past two years, I believe the table would change this year,’’ he said.

The second and third phase of the league will hold in Ilorin, and Lagos respectively on dates yet to be confirmed.