Gavin Cummiskey

Tolka Rovers have had all their matches this week postponed in an attempt to solve their financial difficulties. A meeting of the Superleague board tomorrow will hope to provide them some sort of leverage.

Last Friday's match against UCD Marian is to be rescheduled, along with matches this week against Killester and St Vincent's.

Tolka have had to release their two Americans Jermaine Turner, to St Vincent's, and Kenny McFarland, who is rumoured to be headed back to Belfast, with Star of the Sea a possibility. Turner posted 33 points in Vincent's defeat to Star, 98-106, a result that doesn't bode well for McFarland, as Star's Americans, Jo Jo Chambers and Pat Campolieta, look unlikely to be removed easily.

A late intentional foul called on Mike Trimmer, currently appealing a four-match ban, ended the game for Vincent's. Trimmer's case goes before an independent disciplinary committee this week, a first in Irish basketball.

Shamrock Rovers Hoops, otherwise Notre Dame, got off to the best possible start under their new name with a 69-50 win over Killester last Friday night. Killester's Tony Atchinson was kept quiet as Anthony Jenkins dominated the boards.

In the southern conference, Tralee Tigers kept up their 100 per cent record with a 74-67 win over the UCC Demons, and Neptune beat Waterford by 20 points.

In the Women's Superleague the Wildcats waltzed to a 87-63 win over Tolka Rovers, who incidentally are independent of the men's team so are not under the same financial strain. In other matches University of Limerick, Killester and St Paul's all won.

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