STOGLIN BECOMES FIRST BAL PLAYER TO SCORE 40 POINTS AS A.S. SALE SINKS A.S. POLICE
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Terrell Stoglin became the first player to score 40 points in the Basketball Africa League (BAL), helping AS Salé fight back from a 16-point deficit to beat AS Police 88-79 on Thursday.
The 29-year-old guard made 14 of his 31 field goal attempts to top the 33 points scored by AS Policeâs Joseph Nzeakor, the gameâs second highest scorer.
This was Stoglinâs second straight high-scoring game â he tallied more than 20 points in his teamâs hard-fought 87-84 win two days earlier against FAP.
Stoglin was a rebound short of a double-double, while his teammate Rashad Deane James finished with 21 points after a 9-for-18 performance and Moroccan international Abderrahim Najah registered his first BAL double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.
Terrell Stoglin has led two come-from-behind victories for #AS_SALE in #theBAL Relive the best of his second-half performances in these two games! pic.twitter.com/RyLIkWvvdY
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AS Salé started slowly, trailing 12-1 after the first five minutes. But just like the Moroccan champions did against FAP, they came from behind to improve to 2-0.
âIt must be an ugly win, but a win is a win, this is the most important thing,â Stoglin said in the post-game presser.
He admitted that AS Sale might be on the right track after securing a play-off spot, but there is a lot of work to be done before they face undefeated Petro de Luanda in a battle for Group Bâs top spot.
âWe got to do a better job in the first half. First half we started terribly, itâs like we were asleep. But in the second half we came out like warriors,â Stoglin said.
AS Police, who qualified for the BAL through a FIBA-run qualifying tournament, seemed to be on course to stunning the Salé-based team.
However, Salé outscored the Malian outfit 33-25 in the last 10 minutes as the Policemen from Bamako seem to run out of gas.
Mylo Mitchell and Mamadou Keita combined for 26 AS Police points, but the team remains winless in Group B.
They will face FAP in their last Group B game on Sunday, May 23.
Nzeakor, who scored his 33 points while shooting 14-for-21 from the field, was disappointed after his team dropped to 0-2.
âItâs definitely tough when you play against a team that you know that you could possibly beat. Losses like this always are really frustrating. Itâs a learning process and we werenât able to pull it out tonight,â he said.
