The Boys were able to regain composure on the dying minutes of the match against Rangers team to give them an upperhand and pose their second win in a row while on the other hand their big brothers from team MEDA lost to a team from Ngiwal state, the 79ers with a score of 88 – 86. On other games that night, Airwaves were able to pull a10 point advantage at the end of the regulation to beat Turtleriders, 68- 58. Games between Islanders and Surangel were postponed the same as Blue Sharks against Breakers were all postponed due to power failure and will be re-scheduled at the end of the round. However the game between Sam’s Sharks and Kabong resumed on the third game were the latter won with an end score of 77 – 71.
On the other games, Rivals continued its winning ways beating PCC- Mesekui, 80 – 60 while Stingers lost to team Peched, 92 – 83. Sam’s Sharks won back to back as they crushed team Ngiwal Central, 85 – 83 courtesy Anloyd’s shooting. Schedule for the next three days are; Triggerfish will face team PPR on Thursday, 20th of February while Aimeliik battles the Jaguar team then on the third game Ikelauans sees action against On-Fire. Then on Friday, Ranchers vs. Styxers, Blue Sharks vs. Rivals, then Ngiwal Central vs. Cardinals. As for Saturday, Ididers faces the challenge of PPR and Ngiwal 79ers against Aimeliik.Games are played every day from Monday to Saturday were Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will be set for Division 1 teams which is composed of ten teams and Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday are scheduled for Division 2 teams. The National Basketball League is supervised by the Palau Basketball Federation and is sponsored by Shell, Palau.
