After falling to Peppers the night before, Dorados de Playa del Carmen took an immediate revenge winning the second match 100-91, coming back at the top of the table. Greg Lewis (198-F-78, college: Winthrop) was the game MVP, with 33 points for Dorados. Aluxes, instead, did not take any revenge, falling again to Leopardos, this time 80-102. Eric Martin (197-F-76, college: Cincinnati) was the game best scorer with 29 pts, followed by Reggie Jordan (193-G-68, college: N. Read more...

The first leg of the National League will end this weekend in the new Arena of Concepcion, where the teams of the 'Group B' will play their last three games. America de Pilar is the only team yet qualified for the next phase, but will try to end at the first place to gain the additional point in the standiings. America will meet for first Deportivo San Jos, that will be under a new coach, Eduardo Pfleger , hired last week. Read more...

Libertad Sunchales defeated Quimsa 84-75 on game one of the league finals behind a monster from froward Laron Profit, who scored 28 points, shooting 13/18 from the field, and grabbed 7 rebounds. Teammate Robert Battle contributed with 17 points and 10 rebounds and Marcos Saglietti scored all his 10 points during a second quarter span when Libertad took control of the game for good. Read more...

The Quarterfinals come to the end in Brazilian Play-offs as two teams have already finished their series. Flamengo and Minas were first to reach the semis. The winner of the regular season Flamengo swept the series over CETAF/Garoto/UVV. At first the team won 90:77 at home and then had 79:72. In the third game Flamengo had a road win 70:97 as Marcelinho was unstoppable with 35 points for the winners. Eduardo Duda Machado (197-F-82) produced 18 and Coloneze Fernando had 14. Read more...

Alejandro Flores surprised to Deportivo Tachira with a three points shot in the last second of the game on Wednesday to defeat them 81 - 79. Celebration over the Tachira, the score was 79 - 78 , few seconds remaining for Tachira to get this win, Ernesto Mijares from Gatos, passed the ball to his team mate Alejandro Flores whom kept the ball in his hands, to then takes the winning shot. Read more...

The Lions beat the Cariduros 78-68 and the tie breaker will be played on Friday at the Fajardo Arena. The best of three series has been a home victory for each team and now the winner will advance to the final six on Friday. The game was decided in the 1st quarter as the Lions kept the Cariduros to just 9 points in that quarter while the Lions scored 21 points to take a comfortable lead. Read more...

In the last games of Liga del Sureste, Peppers de Progreso plevailed over Dorados 101-82, surpassing them at the top of the table. Forrest Fisher (193-G-84) was the man of the game, with 35 points, and Rodrigo Perez (200-F-74) added 19 points in Peppers. James Penny (198-F-76, college: TCU) was the best in Dorados, with 26 points. In the other game of the night, Eric Martin (197-F-76, college: Cincinnati) scored 36 points to lead Leopardos to and easy win, 107-70, over Aluxes de Cancun. Read more...

The ExSal Gorillas took a clear win on tuesday night, 95-84 over Cosmos. Jerry Echenique (201-C-79, college: High Point) was the game top performer, with 28 points for Cosmos, in which made his debut the new import, Cornelius Roberts (198-F-77, college: Norfolk St.), who replaces Akbar Lawson. The best scorer in ExSal was Oscar Rivera (186-G-80), who scored 21 points. Read more...

Table headers of Barva destroyed Perez Zeledon 120-62, led by Amir Alvarado (198-G/F-84, college: Marshalltown CC), who scored 23 pts. Liceo de Costa Rica made the same with UCR, winning 92-48, and Alonso Sanchez (174-G-85) and Kendrick Jones (190-G-83, college: Columbus St.) scored 23 points each in the win. Read more...

The Fajardo Cariduros outhustled the Ponce Lions and took the first game of a 2 out of 3 series with a 68-60 win. The Cariduros started the game with a fast pace game and this seems to take Ponce out of their game plan. In the 1st quarter Ponce's import player Matt Freije was called for a technical foul when he complained of a non call by one of the officials, this seemed to frustrate Freije and this could be noticed in his low point production in the game. Read more...

Capurro scored a 15-0 run in the last 3.30 to win 91-83 over Goes to maintain the leadership of the Metro League, after 10 rounds. Brian Craig (206-C-79, college: Miles), shotting 80% from the field, scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Capurro. Howard Wilkerson (198-F-84, college: Wofford) netted 23 with 6 rebounds for Goes. Aguada was winning 56-45 when fans from Olivol Mundial stormed the court and the game was stopped. Read more...

San Carlos agreed terms with 30-year old Italian center Roman Gonzalez (206-C-78, agency: HM Sports Agency). Gonzalez played most recently at Penarol Mar del Plata (Argentina). Read more...

San Carlos strengthened their roster with addition of 25-year old American power forward Andre Hardwick (201-F/C-83, college: CSU Bakersfield, agency: HM Sports Agency). Hardwick played most recently at Bucaneros de Campheche (Mexico). Read more...

Despite this league has not finished yet, some teams are thinking in the next league. One of these is Quilmes Mar del Plata who announced that they have agreed in terms with Esteban De La Fuente (196-G-68, agency: CDM Basketball) as head coach for the 2008/2009 season. Esteban who played in Independiente the last season decided to finish his carreer as a player. He had a great career with lot of titles and mentions and he will have now the chance to show all his knowlodge as a coach. Read more...

In one of the most dramatic comebacks of the year, the Humacao Grays beat the San German Athletics 91-89. The Grays started out the game strong, but San German came back with a late rally of 9-0 to take the lead at the end of the 1st quarter. Humacao had dominated thru out most of the 1st quarter until this rally which ended with a 3 pointer from Omar Alvarado (180-G-83, agency: Next Level) as the buzzer sounded to end the quarter with San German in command 24-22. Read more...

During the past weekend, Dorados confirmed their leadership defeating Marineros, and Aluxes felt two times to Peppers, 90-103 in Game 1 and 92-96 in Game 2. Eric Carr (200-F-71, college: Penn St.) scored 29 pts and Tomas Rios (175-G-84) added 14 in Aluxes in the first match, while Mark Borders (188-G-84, college: Tampa) scored 24 and Ronnie Coleman (199-F-68, college: USC) (199-F-68, college: USC) added 20 pts at the winning side. Read more...