Brighton Bears 83 Kinder London Towers 89

Kinder London Towers qualified for the semi-finals of the BBl Trophy with a solid 89-83 victory over the Brighton Bears on Sunday.

Brighton held a slender 21-20 lead at the end of the first quarter but Towers hit eight of the opening 12 points of the second quarter to take a 28-25 advantage.

It remained close for the rest of the first half, as Towers maintained their three-point gap to lead 44-41 at the main break.

Towers extended that advantage to seven points by the end of the third period thanks to the three-point shooting of Terrell Myers and John White, who each bagged two long bombs in the quarter.

That lead was extended to nine in the final quarter before Bears hit back with three pointers and later five points in a row from Randy Duck, which cut the deficit to three at 81-78.

White responded with five points of his own to put Towers 86-78 up with one minute remaining and try as they might, Bears could not pull it back.

Both Whites - John for Towers and Albert for Bears - bagged a game-high 25 points each. Myers added 24 points for the Towers and Ted Allen netted 13.

Towers coach David Lindstrom said: "It was a very, very good basketball game against a tough team that is very well coached."

Towers now meet Milton Keynes Lions in the BBL Trophy semi-finals at the Skydome Arena in Coventry on Saturday, February 23 (tip-off 2.45pm).

Kinder London Towers 75 Peristeri (GRE) 87

Kinder London Towers slipped to their 12th straight defeat in the Euroleague last Thursday night losing at home to Greek side Peristeri 87-75

The Towers, however, provided stiff resistance for three quarters before succumbing to an early 10-0 fourth-quarter burst from the visitors which made the game safe.

Terrell Myers once again led the Towers with four three-pointers in his game-high 24 points while Brett Eppehimer netted 20 and Ted Allen and Robert Youngblood both added eight. Constantinos Esartsaris had 23 for Peristeri.

"This was very disappointing," said Terrell Myers.

"We felt if there was any team that we could beat in our group, it would be this one.

"Peristeri weren't doing anything special to win the game, we gave them the game through our mistakes, like missing free throws and committing turnovers."