First Deepwater Targets Medal Range, Jets Out On Wednesday

Nigeria and FIBA Africa Zone-3 champion, First Deepwater basketball club is targeting a medal range finish at the final round of the 2013 edition of the Africa Champions Cup for women slated for Meknes, Morocco.

The competition starting next Saturday and ending on Sunday, first of December, 2013, will accommodate two Nigerian women basketball clubs, First Deepwater and Dolphins Basketball Clubs and other eight teams from other African countries.

The team's chairman, Babatunde Babalola and head coach Lateef Erinfolami through telephone conversation, confirmed that the team that won the the zonal elimination held in Liberia has since settles down for the business of sharpening it skills in readiness for the task ahead.

 According to the team's coach, the  participation of Nigeria's representative, First Deepwater Basketball Club at the biggest Africa basketball showpiece in Maputo has put him in good stead for new coaching ideas as he has promised that the gesture wouldmake his team to a squad to defeat  at domestic and continental championships.

 "The only good thing for us (First Deepwater BC) is to finish among the medal range in Meknes, Morocco because we have paid our dues and it is time we take our rightful place in Africa club basketball.

"The players are set so also is the management led by our able chairman Babatunde Babalola to take Morocco by storm not minding which teams are on parade at the championship.

"Nigerians should expect us to return home with a medal the colour I cannot predict at this stage but all I can say is that First Deepwater basketball club would fight for a place at the podium, Coach Erinfolami concluded.

Club chairman, Babalola, charged the team to make Nigeria proud at the tournament and also to prove that they are a good product of Nigerian basketball league, stressing that it is high time Nigerian basketball clubs led by First Deepwater basketball club stamp its authority in African women club championship.

Having won the Nigerian NBBF/ Zenith Women Basketball League for three consecutive league seasons and counted as a top contender in FIBA Africa Zone-3 since 2009, Babalola, urged the team to repeat similar feat that made them Champions of Nigerian women basketball league by finishing among the medal range, in Morocco.

Other teams expected at the battle of Meknes includes Eagles Wings and INSU basketball clubs; Interclube, Primeiro D’Agosto, Arc-En-Ciel, INSS, Omnisports de Meknès and Ittihad Riadi de Tanger.