ISAZ Girls Provincial Basketball

On Saturday the 23^rd September we went to Chengelo School to compete in the ISAZ provincial basketball games. We played four games, which were round robin games, so that meant we didn’t play in pools but round-robin scheduling arranges to have all teams play each other, with the winner emerging from the total points gained.

So we played Lechwe, Chengelo, Ndola Trust, and Mpelembe.

Our first game was against Lechwe, where we played well and beat them 14-12, because of good team work and a good attitude. Our second game was against Ndola Trust and this was our first time playing them this year and we did not let them beat us and they had a good team but we beat them 10-8. Our second last game was against Chengelo, our rivals, and this year I can say we played really well compared to the last year. We put in our best effort and although we lost that game 9-13 we had played exceptionally well as a team and made some beautiful baskets. Our last and final game was against Mpelembe ,this game was tough and we under estimated them. and this time they came fired up and ready to beat us ,so at the end of the match we were equalised and so we had 3 minutes extra time and we managed to score 2 more goals and then we won that game 8-6.

Amano (white) v Chengelo: Josiah warding off another attack

All I can say that this was a great basketball season and we emerged at second place out of 5 schools. We had a lot of fun, great sportsmanship amazing layups ,fabulous foul shots and beautiful defence line. Our women of the match were Natalya Yoro, Kathleen Kaufman, Fernulla Milner and Rosemary Nawakwi. Big thanks to the team for all the effort and applying all we learnt into the game, sportsmanship and for their great spirit of fighting till the end and to Mr Jarrett for coaching us and Mr Grove, Miss Simone and the boys for supporting and cheering us up and God for the safe trip, good health and his love and mercy.