Nigeria: D'Tigress Beat Algeria, Qualify for Quarterfinals

30 September 2015

Nigeria's loss to Angola in their opening game of the on-going AfroBasket Women Championship is now a distant memory as they have won four games in a row to automatically qualify for the quarterfinal phase of the competition holding in Cameroun.

Despite beating continental rivals, Senegal, 75 to 64 on Monday, the Nigerian girls yesterday needed to beat Algeria to secure their passage to the last eight of the competition. And they did just that, beating the North Africans 79-49.

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