BBL Championship
Chester 102
(McCord 30, Davis 29, Thomas 22)
Edinburgh 94
(Gaines 29, Graves 23, Gardner 18)
Chester Jets warmed
up for Sunday's National Cup final against Birmingham Bullets with a hard-fought
102-94 defeat of Edinburgh Rocks in the BBL Championship last night.
The Scots threatened
an upset of the Northern Conference leaders by taking an eleven point first
quarter lead.
However ex-Rocks
favourite John McCord spurred a decisive surge as the hosts fired 39 points
in the second quarter to take a 62-51 half-time advantage, the New Yorker
eventually top scoring with 30 points.
Their cushion grew
to as much as 15 before a late Rocks rally trimmed the deficit. Jon Gaines
led the visitors with 29.
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