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In CWA's defence, although he played TIE and I was expecting a crunch (from this point on I expect to be crunched almost every game), he did play his strongest DMI team against me.

I did actually know that, I just included him incorrectly when I was pointing out I'd thrown the game. Apologies to Coach jb13fury for that.

In CWA's defence, although he played TIE and I was expecting a crunch (from this point on I expect to be crunched almost every game), he did play his strongest DMI team against me.

I did actually know that, I just included him incorrectly when I was pointing out I'd thrown the game. Apologies to Coach jb13fury for that.

I promise to be nice

Hey,

No mistake, I did not try to win... Having played Vecx on Tuesday with the intention to crunch the cup, I let a winnable league game get away as he was able to field several bench warmers and still win. Kudos to Vecx for predicting this move and taking advantage...

A quick look at his minutes and i knew I would see his strongest side which even crunching at home has too much for me and I need to win some league games made the decision as you pointed out to save enthusiasm for the league...

Well played to Vecx and good luck in next round not that i think he needs it...

JB

The draw has been made for the quarter finals and the only word I can come up with is: juicy!

The two third division teams have been paired together, ribs vs BC Norwich. Remember all games from now are on neutral ground.

Doncaster Hawks play M Dogs, Gauson play Phoenix Warriors, and in probably the clash of the tournament so far, the winners of the last four Cups between them, Tide of Fire play Los Mikitos.

I'll post more later but atm I'm a bit pissed off that I'd spent a fair while writing an excellent summary of the previous round only to be logged out when I tried to post it. Will try later.

write in word, cut and paste. It's the condom of posting.

Great advice of course, but since its happened to me before, I don't think we can trust me to follow it.

What I normally do is open a new window and make sure I'm logged in before I post. Easy to forget though.

So last night, Los Mikitos, despite playing run and gun vs Arab City's 3-2 zone, ran out comfortable winners, 129-67, Lee Chambers top scoring for the winners with 26.

Tide of Fire were untroubled by this season's giant killers Arsenal 98, winning 85-60, with Folomojevas starring with 22 pts and 8 assists.

Gauson had the biggest win of the night, beating BC Angliokai 127-56. Brazilian Center, Irineu Montanha grabbed 22 rebounds, blocked 3 shots and scored 16 pts in the win.

Doncaster Hawks had a comfortable win over D3 Marikina Floods. In a 111-54 win, Hawks' PG Rajmund Weber scored 27 pts, had 4 assists and also 2 steals to help his team.

The fifth EBBL team to dispatch lower league opposition was the Phoenix Warriors, who, thanks to a terrific all round performance in which all players made their mark, beat Ipswich Winterwolves 98-48. It would detract from the team performance to pick out a single star on the night.

In the only all-EBBL tie, the big 8's M Dogs knocked out the great 8's new jersey2 94-81. M Dogs led 31-16 after one quarter and 60-38 by the end of a one sided first half. To their credit new jersey2 fought back in the second half, outscoring M Dogs by 8 in the final quarter but the lead had just grown too big to claw back. Labaye and Gvozdenovic between then scored 49 of M Dogs' 94 pts.

Only one game didn't feature an EBBL team, D2 Halucagenic Dayglo at D3 ribs. Both teams employed a 2-3 zone against outside offences and inevitably that meant a high scoring game. ribs managed to pull off one of the two upsets on the night, thanks to four players scoring more than 20 pts, Gonzalez Almunia top scoring with 37 in a game that was tied at half time, but ended 125-105 in favour of ribs.

Last, but by no means least, the performance of the night was from 3rd division BC Norwich, who, with the help of a 3-2 zone which forced Sabre of Valiente to miss 26 of 29 3pt shots, put their opponents to the sword, winning 89-79 in a hard fought game. Alex Mouton top scored for Norwich with 42 pts.

Normally I'd follow this with a look at the next round's draw but I did that already so instead I'll just finish by wishing all eight teams left the best of luck with their games tomorrow night.

D3 BC Norwich makes the semi's... Take a bow dude... That's one hell of an achievement.

The quarter finals are over and eight have become four. The games weren't necessarily the greatest but that doesn't detract from the winners' achievement in getting this far.

In the big game between the two former champions Tide of Fire beat Los Mikitos 105-92. The score doesn't quite tell the tale though as Tide had 7 minutes of garbage time after taking a 20pt lead. As always Luke Innes was the star for the Tide, missing only three shots on the night.

The other inter conference game saw the Doncaster Hawks take on M Dogs, and in this game it was the Great 8 team that was victorious. The Hawks outscored their opponents in each quarter on the way to a 117-98 win. Darryl Larsen led the way for the Hawks with 12 rebounds, 7 assists and 24 points. Gvozdenovic did his best for the Dogs with 40 pts but ended up on the losing side.

1st and 3rd in the Great 8 faced each other and the conference leaders won, Phoenix Warriors beating Gauson 107-92. Again the score was slightly skewed by 4th quarter garbage time, and like in the previous round, it was a team performance that won the day for the Warriors.

We have to go back a long way to find a semi finalist from division 3. The last time that happened was in season 5, 30 seasons ago, when Spartak MSK actually made the final. With ribs facing BC Norwich we were guaranteed a D3 team in the semis, though that shouldn't take anything away from the winners as its an achievement for any team to make the semis, let alone a D3 team. The winners turned out to be BC Norwich, who were confident enough not to crunch their opponents. They correctly predicted ribs offence and that helped them to a relatively easy victory by 129-97.

In the semis BC Norwich were paired with Phoenix Warriors, and Tide of Fire will play Doncaster Hawks.