Basketball in Africa

By Usher Komugisha
and Samson Opus

Zone 5 results:
Men
Urunani 81 Warriors 61
Women
KPA 58 KCC 50
Ngozi 56 UCU 54
Today: Men
Miracle vs Urunani10am
CSK vs Warriors 3pm
APR vs Coop Bank 6pm
Women
UCU vs APR 11am
KCC vs Jeshi stars 4pm
Schools basketball
Boys
Ssaku 87 St. Joseph 13
Rock High 50 Lubiri SS 61
Manjasi 52 Old K’la 66
Jinja SS 31 Kalinabiri 52
Girls
Ssaku SS 21 Manjasi 17
Maryhill 41 Rock High 26
Buddo 70 Jinja SS 13
Old K’la 21 Kalinabiri 10

LOCAL basketball league champions, Kyambogo warriors have made a false start at this year’s zone 5 club championship when they went down 61-81 to KCB Lions.

After long hours on the road, fatigue caught up with the Warriors as they played five hours after arrival against the KCB Lions who arrived in Bujumbura earli¬er on Wednesday for the week long Zone 5 club championships.

“The players were tired from the long journey but will cope up as the tourna¬ment goes on,” explained a confident Coach Gad Eteu.

As finalists in last year’s edition hosted in Kampala, the Warriors went into this tournament as favourites but so far they have not put up any performance close to last year’s form.

MEANWHILE defending champions Ssaku and Buddo SS made a formidable start as the secondary school basketball championship tipped off in Tororo yesterday.

Ssaku boosted their chances of taking back the boys title to Luwero with a convincing 87-13 victory over St. Joseph’s Vocational College.

Fred Otieno and Daniel Ongom notched 22 and 21 points respectively.