Smallwood helps Tigers shoot way into Munster dominated semi-finals

ABRAKEBABRA Tigers overwhelmed DART Killester - 111 to 88 - to send three Munster teams through to the semi-finals of the National Cup on what was a great weekend for basketball in the province.

The other SuperLeague side from Kerry, Gleneagle Lakers, had a shock victory over Neptune on Sunday afternoon and while the defending champions, Mardyke UCC Demons, were going about their task against UCD yesterday afternoon, the Tralee side were dishing out a hammering to Killester in a game everyone predicted would go right down to the wire.

Tigers, however, completely dominated the proceedings and while Killester might find excuses in the form of illness to key players like Quigley, Grennell, Behan and Kavanagh and a finger injury that allowed Damien Sealy just 18 minutes in total on court, one has to hand it to the Tralee men.