In the first tournament of its kind, and a real celebration of women’s basketball in the area, ten teams headed into the pool games at UWE on the late April weekend, the prize for the winners a place in the final at WISE on 13th May.

The pools

Pool A – Bath, Braves, Cardiff, Flyers, Mavericks

Pool B – Bristol Uni, Butedown Dragons, FireStorm, Flames, UWE

(Shortened games)

FireStorm started with a game against Bristol Uni, and it was a tight affair, but as you would expect for the first game of a long day neither team was really ‘on-fire’ and their were lots of misses, in the end though FireStorm made more shots and hung on for the win.

Second game of the day for FireStorm was against UWE and unlike the previous university, this game was very one sided and FireStorm cruised to a 25 – 6 win.

Game three was against local league rivals Flames but after initial resistance and a barrage of threes FireStorm opened up a lead and never looked back finishing 30 – 14.

Final game of the day and a win would secure a place in the final, and the game was against unknown team Butetown Dragons, it would prove to be the toughest game of the day, with Dragons initially managing to keep up with FireStorm’s scoring. To break clear FireStorm did something they hadn’t really done all day, they clamped down on defence and straight away the benefits were obvious and the game was won 27 – 19.

On to the final against winners of the other pool Braves (fourth time this season)  

 It was also key to note that today finally saw the return of Kimberley Kheing, after over a year out following ankle surgery, Kim was back on the floor – something everyone associated with Storm and basketball will have been please to see.