The 2023 BAL season, also known as BAL Season 3, will kickstart the third season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The season will begin on March 11, 2023 and end on May 27, 2023, with the final in the BK Arena in Kigali, which hosts the finals for the third season in a row. The first round of the qualifying stage consists of 20 teams that play in four groups of five, each held in a different city. In the Elite 16, the teams are joined by 6 teams that successfully qualified during the previous 2022 BAL qualification. Two groups of five teams are played to determine the six teams that a…
Close call for Sasol U25 AmaWheelie Girls on Day 2 of the IWBF U25 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championship qualifiers
JOHANNESBURG, 06 DECEMBER- The Sasol U25 AmaWheelie Girls national team were hosted by the Ethiopia national team during the IWBF U25 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championship qualifiers at the Mandeville Sports Club this morning.
After the Ethiopians suffered a defeat against the AmaWheelie Girls on Monday, they returned with the motive to defeat them this time around. The Ethiopians were leading by 15-10 going on into the second half. …
Pocket rocket Zonn hitting the heights
By GARY LEMKE in Lilongwe
Behind the main structure of the 21 000-capacity Silver Stadium, which is home to Malawi Premier Division football club Silver Strikers, is a netball court, and next to that a basketball court. It was between these two courts that Tayra Zonn was sitting on the floor in animated discussion with her teammates at the end of a 9-6 defeat to Zambia in a 3×3 girls under-15 basketball match at these Region V Games on Friday.
As Bontle Mokoatle, Aluto Gqotso and Cleo Khongolo listened to their captain, it was clear that they were al…
