Bahrain rout Singapore.BAHRAIN scored a deserving 85-64 victory over Singapore in the first consolation match of the inaugural Fiba Asia Under-16 Championship being held in Johor Bahru Johor Bahru, also spelled Johor Baharu, Johor Baru, (Baru means "new" in the Malay language) or Johore Bahru and abbreviated as JB, is the capital city of Johor in southern Malaysia. , Malaysia. After missing a slot in the quarter-finals, having lost to the Philippines 45-62 last Saturday which saw them take third place in the four-team Group 'B' in the first round, the Bahrainis are now fighting in matches for places from ninth to 16th overall. Bahrain, under coach Aqeel Milad, are placed in Group 'A' in the consolation competition along with India, Malaysia and Singapore. Group 'B' consists of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. , Kuwait, Malaysia and
Kazakhstan.
Having won the GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). Championship, the Bahrainis were granted a place in this continental competition. They kicked off their quest losing to Kazakhstan 54-63, which was followed by an 85-84 victory over Japan, before going down to the Philippines. The Bahrain squad consists of Hussain Mansoor Madan, Mohammed Fadhel Butti, Hussain Ali Al Sayed, Nasser Yousef Abdulrasool, Abdulla Jaber Saad Mohsin Abdulredha Ali, Sayed Ahmed Sayed Abdulla, Ahmed Jamal Butabina, Hussain Salman Hussain, Jassim Mohammed Khamis, Sabah Hussain Azzam and Ali Hassan Shukralla. Copyright 2009 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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