Here is a quick update regarding the SA national team qualifiers for the African Championship to be held in Lybia. They played on Monday 30 March 2009 against Zimbabwe in their first game and they won. Final score SA 68 – 58 Zimbabwe… Their next game is on wednesday…
More to scores follow….
After frantic calls to BSA members and various GBA members, the issue was somehow resolved after Tsepo Nyewe (GBA chairman), who had sent out the invitation to the schools, arrived and spoke to the organizer of the drummies and the trials finally got underway.
The turnout was very good, with more than 70 boys and well over 40 girls. There was an abundance of talent on show especially from the boys section. With a bit more preparation time, the teams would bring back the gold, but as usual there is little to no time for that with the final team being selected this coming Saturday 21 March and the tournament taking place the following week.
Basketball South Africa is participating in the zonal competition in the women section. SA will be hosted by Zimbabwe to play two games on Saturday and Sunday the 7th and 8th of March 2009 respectively in a play-off game to qualify for the 2009 women’s African championship to be hosted in Madagascar. Mozambique and Angola have already qualified so its winner takes all between Zimbabwe and South Africa.
The men’s team is camping for the second time at Mandeville Sports Center starting the 19th March 2009 until they depart for Mozambique. The team will arrive on Friday and they will be preparing for the zone 6 qualification games in Mozambique, where they will come face to face with Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Angola has already qualified for the African Nations Cup to be held in Libya.
