DERRICK WEBB HEADING TO GERMANY

The Slam have announced that its first player from the 2010 season has signed a contract to play overseas this winter. Guard Derrick Webb will head to Europe to compete with the Licher Bears in Germany’s second division.

Webb, 23, recently completed a successful rookie professional season with the Slam this spring. After playing limited minutes to start the season, he had a superb second half, averaging 15.7 points in his last six games. Webb scored in double figures in eight games in 2010, with a season-high 20 points coming on June 25 against Tacoma. He proved to be an integral part of Bellingham’s postseason run, as he scored 17 points on 7-for-11 shooting in the team’s IBL conference final win over Yamhill on July 3. Webb also finished the season as the Slam’s best three-point shooter, connecting on 36.6 percent of his outside shots.

Webb joined the Slam, along with fellow Viking teammates Morris Anderson and Zach Bruce, after completing his senior season at Western Washington in March. Webb finished the 2009-10 season first on the team and fourth in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in scoring at 16.3 points per game. As a junior and senior, he helped lead the Vikings to consecutive appearances in the NCAA-II West Regional Tournament.

Webb transferred to Western Washington with Anderson and Bruce after a two-year stint at Highline Community College. The trio led Highline to the NWAACC championship in 2006.

Webb will leave for Germany this weekend and will begin practicing with his new team immediately. The team’s first game in set for September 11 and their regular season runs through April. The team plays in the city of Lich, located north of Frankfurt in central Germany.

FOUR SLAM PLAYERS NAMED IBL ALL-STARS

Four players from the Slam were named as International Basketball League all-stars this season, league officials announced. Guards Morris Anderson, Ryan Diggs and Jacob Stevenson and forward Ike Ohanson each earned the honor this season.

For both Diggs and Stevenson, it is the third consecutive season that they have been named league all-stars.

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SLAM UNABLE TO TAKE HOME TITLE IN ALBANY

The Slam couldn’t survive the second-half hot shooting of the Albany Legends as they lost, 126-111, in the 2010 IBL Championship game in Albany, New York on Friday night.

The victory gives the Legends a league title in their first year of existence, and kept intact a streak that has seen the championship won on the home team’s court in every season since the IBL was formed in 2005.

The game was a close affair until Albany was able to pull away in the early stages of the fourth quarter, and featured 18 total lead changes.

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