The City Oilers just seem to be unstoppable and they once again rose to the occasion effortlessly smashing the UPDF Tomahawks on Friday night.

The Tomahawks came into the game with high spirits and hopes having defeated the the UCU Canons on Sunday and they looked to build on that victory to make a run.

The City Oilers showed the public once again that they are a no nonsense side, not entertaining any threats that the Tomahawks paused.

The Oilers had a 25 point lead but the Army side went on a 7:p run to make it an 18 point game going into half time.

The worst was yet to come for the Tomahawks, as the Oilers just kept pounding more and more pressure in the second half blowing the Army said.

At some point during the game, it felt like it was a practice session with the Oilers making a few experiments and giving the bench players like Allawi, Ceasar Kizito more minutes.

Match facts

UPDF was didn’t make any 3 point shot out of the 14 attempts. While the Oilers made 9 out of 35.

City Oilers had more assists (19), steals (17), blocks (7) and bench points (29) compared to the UPDF 7, 8, 1 and 9 respectively.

Tony Drileba was named player of the game with 14 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 5 steals and 3 blocks.

Titus Lual was poor offensively with just 6 points but was alert off the glass, collecting 12 rebounds.

Jimmy Enabu scored 75% from the 3 point line and finished the game with 15 points.

Andrew Gang and Arthur Wanyoto were the only sources offense of UPDF bagging 14 and 13 points respectively. Arthur made the double double with 10 rebs too.

The Oilers are showing their depth and ability to hurt opponents in various ways. It is yet to be determined if the Oilers can manage to finish the regular season with 100% record as they have 5 more games, but as things stand, there isn’t a team that can confidently say they want to take on the Oilers.

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