Tuesday the 17th was a bad night. It was cold, windy and raining outside. We made ourselves comfortable in the Brighton Centre where our team the Brighton Bears were playing. The game was against the Birmingham Bullets. The atmosphere was great and friendly, it was looking to be a very enjoyable evening and the seats were filling up fast. The age group varied from very young to OAPs, sorry to call you that but I could see you were having a great time the same as everybody else. I spoke to a number of people who were there to watch the Bears play for the first time and I am sure after tonight’s match would be coming back for more, it is so easy to get hooked.

Back to the match: the Bears dominated every quarter of the match. By the third quarter the bears were pulling out all the stops and the game became faster and more tackles were coming from every angle. During the half-time there was a game for the children, they had to shoot the ball into the net and if they managed to get it in they would receive a ball. Well you would have liked to have seen the faces of some of the children who did win, absolutely priceless!

Well back to the game: the score was just going up and up in the Bears’ favour. At half time the score was Bears 64 - Bullets 32. Yorick Williams scored 16 points against his old team, the Bullets. One player Rico Alderson seemed to dominate the scoring in the first quarter. When it got to the last minute of the match everybody stood up clapping and shouting to see both teams score some more points for themselves. The final score was Bears 127 - Bullets 80.

Over their last 41 matches they have won 31 of those. Good Luck Bears for the next coming Basketball League matches. Well done and keep going.