UCU Lady Canons Force Game 5 After Stunning Comeback Win Over JKL Lady Dolphins

The UCU Lady Canons kept their championship hopes alive with a commanding 65–50 victory over defending champions JKL Lady Dolphins in Game 4 of the National Basketball League semifinals on Friday night at the Lugogo Indoor Arena.

The result ties the best-of-five series 2–2, setting up a decisive Game 5 showdown to determine who advances to face the JT Lady Jaguars in the 2025 finals.

JKL started the stronger side, racing to a 20–10 lead at the end of the first quarter. UCU, however, regrouped and tightened up defensively in the second period. Despite a late Hope Akello three-pointer bringing the game within four, the Lady Canons held a 30–25 advantage at halftime.

By the end of the third quarter, UCU had stretched their lead to 43–36, showing remarkable composure and better execution on both ends of the floor. In the final period, Coach Nicholas Natuhereza’s charges turned on the style—dominating the paint, controlling rebounds, and punishing JKL in transition to close out a deserved 15-point win.

The Lady Canons’ renewed defensive intensity and improved shooting proved the difference, as they overcame a slow start to hand JKL their second loss of the series.

With the series now level, all attention shifts to the highly anticipated Game 5, where the winner will book a place in the National Basketball League Finals against the in-form JT Lady Jaguars, who swept Magic Stormers 3–0 earlier in the week.