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10-03-2025
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Sheffield Sharks beat Surrey 89ers to claim cup
Sheffield Sharks won the Super League Basketball Cup final with a 105-97 win over Surrey 89ers. American guard Donovan Clay was named most valuable player after scoring 23 points as the Sharks came back from trailing 51-49 at half-time at Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena. The success gives the club their first trophy since the BBL play-off title in 2016. "It feels great, it's been a hell of a journey back to this kind of situation," head coach Atiba Lyons told BBC Radio Sheffield. "We've been close and had great teams in the past but not got over the line. This team has a resilience and grit that's been amazing. "We've got a good blend of some mature players, experience and good voices in the locker room and talented guys who make shots. They're a unit." The Sharks are in second place in the Super League, eight points behind leaders London Lions but with four games in hand. Lyons, who has been in charge since 2008, said attention would quickly return to the league campaign as they look to add the Championship and play-off silverware. "We've got to stay alive in the league and it's a dogfight right now at the top," he added. "I'm focused on the next game. I can't think dynasty until I look back and see what I have done." Oaklands Wolves beat the Sheffield Hatters 65-51 in the women's SLB Cup final for their first trophy. Celebrations on court from Sheffield Sharks Cup Final win
BBC News
10-03-2025
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- BBC News
Sheffield Sharks beat Surrey 89ers to claim cup
Sheffield Sharks won the Super League Basketball Cup final with a 105-97 win over Surrey guard Donovan Clay was named most valuable player after scoring 23 points as the Sharks came back from trailing 51-49 at half-time at Nottingham's Motorpoint success gives the club their first trophy since the BBL play-off title in 2016."It feels great, it's been a hell of a journey back to this kind of situation," head coach Atiba Lyons told BBC Radio Sheffield."We've been close and had great teams in the past but not got over the line. This team has a resilience and grit that's been amazing."We've got a good blend of some mature players, experience and good voices in the locker room and talented guys who make shots. They're a unit." The Sharks are in second place in the Super League, eight points behind leaders London Lions but with four games in who has been in charge since 2008, said attention would quickly return to the league campaign as they look to add the Championship and play-off silverware."We've got to stay alive in the league and it's a dogfight right now at the top," he added."I'm focused on the next game. I can't think dynasty until I look back and see what I have done."Oaklands Wolves beat the Sheffield Hatters 65-51 in the women's SLB Cup final for their first trophy.
BBC News
10-03-2025
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- BBC News
Wolves win first trophy in SLB Cup women's final
Oaklands Wolves are celebrating after winning their first piece of silverware by beating Sheffield Hatters in the Super League Basketball Cup women's St Albans-based team, who were formed in 2009 and first entered the British Basketball League - now SLB - seven years later, triumphed 65-51 in Sunday's final in Ashby was named MVP after scoring 12 points as head coach Lee Ryan's side made up for the disappointment of losing to Caledonia Gladiators in the SLB Betty Codona Trophy final in January."I think we deserved that win but to really prove how we can play and be as a team, that felt amazing," Ashby told DAZN Sport."We knew Sheffield are a good team and we would have to have high intensity to stop them from scoring and that's what we did. Wolves led 21-11 after the first quarter, and after Hatters cut the deficit to just six points at the half-way stage, pulled away in the they were outscored 10-7 in the final quarter, they held on for victory "We are well rounded as a team and really showed that with multiple people getting on the scoreboard - even on the bench everyone was so locked in from the beginning," said guard Shanice Beckford-Norton."This week, we just had to revisit who we are. Lee pointed out everyone's strengths and that's all we had to bring. Instead of everyone trying to do everyone, they were just doing what they're best at, which is why we got the win." The Hatters - who lost 79-72 to Wolves in an SLB Championship meeting in December - had been hoping to win their first trophy since winning the 2019 WBBL Cup head coach Vanessa Ellis told BBC Radio Sheffield that her team had never really got into the game."I'm really disappointed in how we played. Credit to Oakland, they made it tough for us, but we've got to be able to adjust and adapt."She added: "We worked on a lot of things in training - I don't know if it was the occasion, for a lot of these it was the first time in a big final and it's different environment - and we've just got to learn from defeat and move on." The two sides will meet again in the Championship at Oaklands College on 30 March.
