The Filipino “Strong Group” savors the “Damascus Orange” in the “Dubai Basket”

The newcomer, the Philippine “Strong Group” team, continued its strong performances in the Dubai International Basketball Championship, by achieving a wide victory over the Syrian unit, famous for the “Damascene Orange”, by 26 points and with a score (87-61), in a match that brought them together today at Al-Nasr Hall. In Dubai, at the end of the fourth round of the Championship Groups League, which has been held since last Friday in its 32nd edition, and extends until the fifth of next February, and nine elite teams and clubs from the Asian and African continents are competing for their title.

The round also witnessed, for the account of the same round, the Lebanese “Dynamo” team snatched its third consecutive victory, by defeating the Libyan victory with a wide score of (101-87).

The “Strong Group” and “Dynamo” teams continued their partnership at the top of the first group teams, with six points each, two points behind Al-Nasr Al-Libya in third place, and Al-Wahda Al-Syria suffered its third consecutive loss, which kept it in fourth place with three points, one point behind. For the national team in last place, but with one less match for “Al-Abyad”.

The “Strong Group” team did not find it difficult to extract its outright victory over the Syrian Al-Wehda, with the Philippine players dominating the results of the four periods of the match by (24-13, 20-16, 24-14, and 19-18).

In turn, the Dynamo players succeeded in drawing their broad victory and breaking the barrier of one hundred points, by obtaining absolute advantage in the results of the first and third quarters by (32-18 and 29-24), while the Libyan victory did not intercede for the advantage in the results of the second and fourth quarters by (23-22 and 22-18). .

Tomorrow, the group league will be completed, with three matches for the fifth round, the first starting at five in the afternoon with the Lebanese Beirut meeting with Moroccan Sala for the second group, followed by the seven in the evening with the UAE national team and the Libyan victory for the first group, and then the summit meeting of the second group that gathers in The ninth is the Lebanese and African Tunisian sports teams.