Basketball: Blow for Anderson as illness rules her out

Sole Scot Rose Anderson was reportedly "devastated" after being forced to miss the final Great Britain women's game of the Eurobasket Qualifiers due to food poisoning.

The 22-year-old Edinburgh Kool Kat stayed back when the team travelled to the Ukraine where they went down narrowly 70-66 in Dnipropetrovsk yesterday.

Although the defeat did not affect their top-of-the-group position it was still disappointing for the GB team who had won four games in a row to secure their place in next year's Eurobasket Finals in Poland.

The Standard Life GB men also lost away to Ukraine 75-66 in a match where victory could have clinched a higher seeding in next year's finals in Lithuania but in the end it did not matter as Bosnia upset FYROM to keep GB on top with a 6-2 record.

Sole Scot Kieran Achara (Stirling) had his biggest stint of the qualifiers, playing for nearly 20 minutes and scoring three from four from the line.