DEFENDING champions, UL Aughinish, are back in the final of the women’s cup after a comprehensive 84-62 victory over Bausch & Lomb Wildcats.

TONY HEHIR will find himself in an unusual situation in tomorrow’s National Cup semi-final between UL Aughinish and Bausch & Lomb Wildcats at the National basketball arena.

This game saw good strong performances from both teams. DCU had a great start to lead by six points at the end of the first quarter and doubled their lead to 12 points by half time.

THE first cross-conference weekend in the NIVEA for Men SuperLeague season was disastrous for the teams from the South, who will be hoping to pick up the pieces when their paths cross again this weekend.

Ireland 53 Netherlands 77

UL Aughinish 71 DART Killester 42

REVENGE will doubtlessly form the core of Tony Hehir’s pre-game speech ahead of tomorrow’s Women’s SuperLeague Cup Final.

Neptune have had an unstable start to the season with both player and coach changes. They have signed another new coach for this weekend’s clash against Roma St Vincent’s on Saturday night.

UL Aughinish 90 DART Killester 55

DART Killester 57 UL Aughinish 53

FOR three seasons UL Aughinish have ruled Irish women’s basketball with an iron fist. For that reason they remain hot favourites tonight as their defence of the National Cup gets underway against Vienna Woods Glanmire at the ESB Arena.

University of Limerick67 Bausch & Lomb Wildcats42

UNIVERSITY of Limerick go into the semi-finals of the ESB Women’s National Cup this evening as the red hot favourites to retain the title they won last year. Since then they have won just about everything and are already defending their SuperLeague title from the front

Sx3 Star's Gareth Maguire and Adrian Fulton, along with Mardyke UCC Demon's Brian Clernon, have been short-listed to receive the Irish Basketball Player of the Year award 2003.

MICHELLE ASPELL produced an ESB Cup final tour de force to inspire University of Limerick to their first major title yesterday.

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