Combo guard Patience Idoko scored 12 points adding 5 rebounds on her way to leading the Benue Princess past the Oluyole Babes 52-44 in a late push for a place in the final 8.
The Benue girls who have found the going tough in Ilorin, have managed to get only their 2nd win from 5 games so far. Having won 4 games in the first phase in Abuja, the middle belt princesses with the win pushed themselves tied with Plateau Rocks for 5th who defeated Taraba Hurricanes 48-19 earlier today.
Both teams will have to slug it out with AHIP Queens and Sunshine Angels in a very compact Group A, that has First Deepwater and defending champions First Bank comfortably leading the pack and Oluyole Babes as the outsiders with Immigration and Taraba Hurricanes as the weeping girls of the group that will present only the top 4 teams in the playoffs in Lagos.
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