By Toby Prince
Nigeria national female basketball team, D’Tigress, continued their resurgence at the 2015 AfroBasket Women Championship in Yaounde, Cameroon with an easy 100-47 victory over Guinea on Sunday.
The ladies didn’t really break a sweat blowing out the lowly-rated Guinea side despite Coach Scott Nnaji sitting out team leading scorer, Olayinka Sanni.
Joyce Ekworomadu inspired five other Nigerians, who scored 12 points or more, while Nadia Peruch-Niang paced Guinea with 17 points and seven rebounds.
D’Tigress took total control of the game, and it became more evident in the painted area where they out-rebounded Guinea 63-30.
Helen Ogunjimi came off the bench for the two-time champions to make 15 of her game-high 19 points from beyond the arc.
D’Tigress, 46th in the world, have thus played three games in the tournament winning two and losing one.
The team is gradually picking up after losing their first game 57 – 51 to powerhouse Angola on Friday -overcoming Egypt 97 – 68 the next day.
Nigeria play Senegal and Algeria on Monday and Tuesday respectively in their last two group games.
