In Britball.com today, our weekly round-up of reports and scorers from
the NBL.

Leicester Riders won the Newtownabbey Invitational Tournament.

London Leopards named their entire roster for this season: Re-signed are
Jason Kimbrough, Rashod Johnson, David Attewell, Michael Martin and
Brian Moore. Joining are Americans Rico Alderson and Maurice Robinson,
both of whom played at Derby Storm in 1998-99, American guard Rod Brown,
a rookie out of Western Michigan, and 6'9" UK centre Gareth Davies,
fresh out of East Tennessee.

Edinburgh Rocks named American Greg Lockridge as coach. Lockridge,44,
was coach at IBA side Rochester last season.

Birmingham Bullets re-signed F/C Clive Allen and signed US-Italian PG
Rob Paternostro. The club also announced that Tony Simms will play for
Bullets' NBL side this year.

Milton Keynes Lions signed American 6’4 forward Victor Payne, a graduate
of Central Connecticut State.

London Towers released 6'7 forward Joe Stephens who opted out of his
contract. The club signed 6'7 PF Chris Sneed who played last term in
Sweden with Sodertalj Kings.

Brighton Bears released forward Kenny McFarland.

Manchester Magic signed centre Danny Craven.

Kingston Wildcats have signed 6' 5" Zimbabwean forward Jamie Whitaker.

Derbyshire Arrows signed 6'4 US guard Shawn King, who has been playing
in Australia. Arrows also signed Garnet Gayle, Jamie Davidson and
Richard North. 

Spelthorne Acers B withdrew from NBL Division Two.

Killester signed Irish international Adrian Fulton and American F John
Leahy from Star of the Sea.

Dungannon named Carlos Frade as coach. The Spaniard was assistant at
Leicester last season.

University of Limerick signed Irish international Michelle Aspell.

The EBBA AGM elected the following:
President: Trevor Pountain
Director Officiating: Richard Stokes
Director Competitions: Jim Walsh
Director National Teams: David Turner


RESULTS
NBL Conference
Manchester 90-66 Worthing
Coventry 85-58 Inter-Basket
Plymouth 96-80 Teesside
Solent 97-100 Sutton


Newtownabbey Invitational Tournament (Belfast)
Final
Leicester 116-82 Newcastle
Lei: Cole 28, Perry 26
New: D Johnson 20, Whyte 15

Semi-Finals
Newcastle Eagles 89-67 Pertemps Bullets Birmingham
New: Brian Ehlers 19, TJ Watson 18
Bir: Virgel Cobbin 20, Chris Watson 18

Leicester 111-100 Star of the Sea
Lei: Larry Johnson 30, Freddie Cole 20
Sta: Matt Langel 34, Kenny McFarland 29

Pool Matches
Pool A
Newcastle 70-68 Tralee ; Star of the Sea 75-74 Tralee;
Newcastle 93-72 Star of the Sea
Pool B
Birmingham 90-87 Washington ; Leicester 112-82 Washington ;
Leicester 96-86 Birmingham

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