Basketball: Scots do well as GB sink

Despite more valiant performances by two Scots, Marie Buchan and Becca Allison, Great Britain went down 78-52 to the Czech Republic, their first defeat of the Euro B basketball championship campaign in Macedonia last night.

Buchan again top-scored with 12 points, adding six rebounds, while Edinburgh Kool Kat Allison bagged nine points, her best to date, and added four rebounds.

GB senior women, meanwhile, crashed to a severe 97-71 defeat at the hands of Belgium in a friendly in Kortrek last night.