"The King" defeats Shabab Al-Ahly in the final

Basketball Cup «Cherkaoui» for the ninth time

• Saeed bin Saqr Al Qasimi won the Sharjah Basketball Cup champions.

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The Sharjah team won the President's Cup for Basketball for the ninth time in its history, by winning yesterday against Shabab Al-Ahly with a score of «81-79», in the final match that brought the two teams together at the Khorfakkan club hall, during which «the king» needed to settle an additional game by «12- 10 »to ensure victory, after the end of the original time for the meeting with a draw« 69-69 ».

Sharjah regained the cup title, which it had missed 11 years ago, and added its ninth title in history, since it won the title of the first edition season (1977-1978), while Shabab Al-Ahly forbade it to continue breaking the tournament records as the most winning team in the title, by settling at the 12-title barrier that came. The most recent being the 2015-2016 season.

The start of the match was close between the two teams, after the first quarter ended in a draw with a score of 15-15, before Sharjah could hardly settle the result of the first half by a point difference of 31-30, with its players gaining the preference with the second quarter result “16-15”. ».

With the start of the second half, Al-Ahly youth relied on the method of pressing defense, which allowed its players the ability to regain the initiative and advance by 12 points by the end of the third quarter, by "53-41" by gaining the preference with the result of this quarter, "23-10", to enter the match in Its fourth quarter, during which the Sharjah players knew how to settle its result «28-16», and the imposition of a tie at the end of the original game time «69-69», which prompted the refereeing team to calculate an additional game for a period of five minutes, through which «the king» was able to draw the way to win the title , By discounting his result by «12-10».

Sharjah owes its victory in the title to the brilliance of its American professional, Taylor Wilkson, whether on the defensive or offensive side, for scoring 22 points, in addition to the brilliance of the international Rashid Nasser, who played an effective role, especially in the fourth quarter, scoring 11 points.

And after the end of the competitions, Sheikh Saeed bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Deputy Head of the Ruler's Office in Khorfakkan, was crowned the champions, in the presence of the President of the UAE and Arab Federations, Major General Ismail Al Gergawi, Chairman of the Sharjah Sports Council Issa Hilal, Chairman of Sharjah Sports Club Ali Salem Al Midfa, and Chairman of the Board of Directors The sports sector in the Al-Ahly youth club, Major General Muhammad Al-Marri, members of the Board of Directors of the Basketball Federation, and members of the Board of Directors of the two clubs.

• Sharjah regained the title after an absence of 11 years.

• “The King” needed an extra time to win “81-79”.

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