The Edmonton Stingers buzzed their way to first place in the West by swatting their closest competition, the Vancouver Bandits, with a 99-82 victory. Leading the charge, Michael Nuga dropped 24 points like it was pocket change. The Stingers outplayed the Bandits in almost every way, shooting better from both the field and beyond the arc, and out-rebounding them by more than 10. It was like watching a high school bully take the Bandits’ lunch money – if the bully was a basketball team and the lunch money was, well, first place in the West.