Basketball: Youth Alive Basketball league set for playoffs/finals – Coordinator
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Basketball
By Babatunde Ogunrinde
Lagos, May 12, 2017 (NAN) Gbade Olatona, the Coordinator, Youth Alive Basketball League on Friday said that the playoffs/final matches to round off the 2017 season would hold from May 19 to May 29 in Lagos.
According to Olatona, the venue of the competition is the Mobolaji Sports Complex, Yaba Lagos where all final basketball academies will slug it out to determine 2017 champions of each age grades.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the event promised to be exciting as the youths are prepared to give their best to fans and parents who would be around to watch.
“We are glad to come to the end of the regular season which began in January and ended in May, indeed it has been an eventful season which we can tag as success.
“We are happy to see a lot of development in the players as more youths have truly demonstrated their passion for the game and the will to prove their worth.
“We look forward to the playoffs which as usual will be very heated as there are no new comers in the teams that made playoffs and the finals,’’ Olatona.
NAN reports that after five months of action packed matches, Titans, Rangers, River Dragons, Raptors, Topfield, Warriors, Deepbond and Warlord academies will feature in the U-19 category.
Bobcats, Gendarmeries, Warriors, Rangers, Tornadoes, River Dragons Raptors and Discovery will slug it out at the U-16 category.
In the girls’ category, Eko Flyers, Hope for Girls, Topfield and Deepbond would battle for supremacy.
The Youth alive Basketball League is an initiative of Deepbond Sports, supported by the Lagos State Basketball Association (LSBBA) and backed by Honeywell Flour Mills Plc. (NAN)
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Edited by Edwin Nwachukwu/Maharazu Ahmed