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Day 1 Africa Zone5 Champs 2017
APR 45 ?? KCCA 57 ??
Hawassa 43 Patriots 110
KPA 108 Gondar 35
UCU 108 Horseed 42
Equity 70 Don Bosco 48
City Oil 93 Savio 46
Power 87 ABC 55
Men
GROUP A – City Oil – Uganda; Patriots – Rwanda; Savio – Tanzania; Hawassa City – Ethiopia
GROUP B – Betway Power – Uganda; Gondar City – Ethiopia; A.B.C – Tanzania; K.P.A – Kenya
Women (round robin)
UCU, KCCA, Equity, KPA, Horseed , APR, Don Bosco
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fifteeen clubs from five countries will battle for honours at this year’s FIBA Africa Zone 5 Club Championships hosted by Ugandan giants City Oilers Basketball Club and the sports governing body FUBA.
The regional basketball tournament was launched in Kampala on Saturday by Italian Ambassador to Uganda Domenico Fornara who handed over the trophies to be competed for to FUBA President Ambrose Tashobya.
This is the 3rd time Uganda is hosting the Zone 5 Club Championships since it changed name in 2009. The tournament is sponsored by Stanbic Bank, Enoc Oil, Linglong Tires and Mandela Group.
The week-long tournament that started Sunday morning at Lugogo will also serve as regional qualifiers for the FIBA Africa Club Championship finals to be hosted in Casablanca, Morocco in December. Uganda’s City Oilers are defending champions of the Zone 5 tournament.
City Tyres Marketing Manager Herbert Bashasha on behalf of Mandela Group earlier handed over a digital scoreboard to FUBA ahead of the FIBA Zone 5 Club Championships.
The Commissioner of Sports in the Ministry of Education & Sports Mr Omara Apitta conducting the draw. #Zone5Champs17#BeastsFromTheEastpic.twitter.com/BAlw5MwvZ6
— City Oilers (@CityOilers) September 30, 2017
The Chairman Mandela Group Hajj Omar Mandela is among the many diginatories at the launch. Mandela Group are platinum sponsors. pic.twitter.com/CPFeFVzm9z
— City Oilers (@CityOilers) September 30, 2017
Here are the pools for the FIBA Africa Zone 5 Club Championship set to tip off from October 1-7 in Kampala, Uganda ??. #Zone5Clubs2017 pic.twitter.com/1HNE8nsp23
— Usher Komugisha (@UsherKomugisha) September 30, 2017
MS Karen of Linglong Tire drawing Patriots Basketball Club at the launch of the #Zone5Champs17. Linglong Tire are platinum sponsors. pic.twitter.com/hTB0LmP7lI
— City Oilers (@CityOilers) September 30, 2017
DAY TWO Monday
ABC v KPA 9am
APR v Don Bosco 11am
Patriots v Savio 1pm
KCCA v Equity 3pm
UCU v KPA 5pm
City Oil v Hawassa 7pm
Power v Gondar 9pm
