NAPSA Breeze and Matero Legends Basketball Teams reign supreme

01 Jun

NAPSA Breeze and Matero Legends Basketball Teams reign supreme

By Noah Silomba News, Sport 0 Comments

NAPSA Breeze and Matero Legends emerged winners of the “Hoop it Up” 1st Annual 3v3 Basketball tournament in the senior women and mens categories respectively.

The tournament took place at OYDC and attracted teams like UNZA, Kalema’s Girls, NAPSA Hurricane and many others.

In the womens round robin, NAPSA Breeze, won all the games emerging the champions of the tournament while Matero Legends were crowned champions in the men’s round robin.

NAPSA hurricanes and Kalema’s Girls were runners up of the tournament.

The champions walked away with the grand prize of K1000 and trophies while runners up were awarded with trophies.

The award ceremony was attended by OYDC Deputy Director Sombwa Musunsa, who paid gratitude to teams for participating in the tournament. Also present was basketball legend Johnny Zimba, who presented trophies.

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