Basketball: Tigers' nerve holds

Monday 25 March 1996 00:02 GMT

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Basketball

Thames Valley Tigers survived a "nervy few minutes" before beating Doncaster Panthers 99-92 at Bracknell on Saturday to take a tighter grip on eighth place for the Budweiser League play-off quarter-finals, writes Duncan Hooper.

Newcastle Comets, upset 110-97 at home by Leicester City Riders, slipped four points behind the Tigers. Thames Valley must wait two weeks before they can secure a play-off place. Tigers' coach, Mick Bett, said: "It's been such a struggle all season, there'll be no special sense of satisfaction if we get in the play-offs."

London Towers ended Birmingham Bullets' 14-game unbeaten run with a 101- 91 victory at Wembley Court and need win only two of their last four games to take the title for the first time.

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