DONGGUAN (China) – Dongguan New Century hardly broke a sweat in dealing Busan BNK Sum a 91-56 pummeling to barge into the FIBA WBL Asia 2025 Final picture, Saturday night at the Dongguan Sports Center.<\/p>\n
Blessing Ejiofor and Aliyah Collier scored the game’s first seven points, before the Yang sisters and Chen Mingling added on to their lead that eventually became 26-10 before the opening period came to a close.<\/p>\n
And that’s practically they needed to cruise to the victory, in the process sweeping their way into the Big Dance to forge a showdown with the Fujitsu Red Wave in a battle of unbeaten teams on Sunday, September 28.<\/p>\n
The title bout is set at 19:00 local time.<\/p>\n
“Our team has been improving everyday,” offered head coach Zheng Wei post-game. “Tonight, I think on both ends we did really well. Tomorrow we are playing against a stronger team so we need to be prepared.”<\/p>\n
Chen top-scored for the defending WCBA champions with 17 points, alongside 3 rebounds and 5 assists. Collier was their other double-digit scorer in the triumph as she finished with 16 points and 5 rebounds.<\/p>\n
But it was actually a solid spread-out attack for Coach Zheng’s unit, as all but one scored at least a field goal in the wire-to-wire victory, with Huang Sijing doing a bit of everything with 9 points, 9 rebounds, and 6 assists.<\/p>\n
Dongguan finished with 30 assists and flat-out dominated the boards, 50-30, on their way to sending the reigning WKBL titlists skidding to their second loss in a row after opening their campaign by escaping Al Ula.<\/p>\n
Sonia Kim carried much of the load for BNK Sum anew with 21 points. Lee Sohee added 10.<\/p>\n
The Korean side will look to finish their campaign with a win – and with a medal, they hope – as they take on the Ulaanbaatar Amazons of Mongolia in the Third-Place Game on Sunday as well at 16:00 local time.<\/p>\n
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