Omar Al -Balushi
Our national team qualified for the quarter -finals of the Asian Junior Basketball Championship, which is held in Mongolia, after defeating its opponent of the Philippines, 79 against 66 in the meeting that brought both parties within the quarter -finals in the tournament.
The match witnessed equal in its launch between both teams, with the progress of the Philippines in most of the first quarter of the match, which gave the advantage in their favor until the end of the quarter through which our team succeeded in achieving progress in its favor with a score of 22-21.
In the second quarter, our team maintained its progress, and was able to impose its rapid play style, in addition to raising the level of focus through it cut the balls, and trying to score the largest number of points, to succeed in maintaining this progress and victory in the match by 13 points.
Our team will play an important match today, Friday, against its opponent, the Chinese national team, at eleven thirty in the morning, in a meeting in which the team is looking to achieve a historic basketball achievement Bahrain to reach the continental championship semi -finals.
The Chinese national team qualified for the quarter -finals of the championship after the third group led to winning against South Korea, Malaysia and Mongolia.
This confrontation will be difficult for our team and requires a very high concentration and avoiding the scenario of the Australian match in the group stage, in order to achieve the dream of qualifying for the semi -finals of the tournament.
