Gazelles grab first ever AfroBasketball win

Sep 28, 2015

Another milestone for Ugandan basketball.Let the record show Uganda claimed its first victory at the FIBA Afrobasket Women''s Championship on September 28 2015.

By Charles Mutebi

FIBA Afrobasket Women

Results

Uganda 55 South Africa 43

Tuesday

Uganda v Mali

Another milestone for Ugandan basketball.

Let the record show Uganda claimed its first victory at the FIBA Afrobasket Women's Championship on September 28 2015.

Thanks to Timothy Odeke's Gazelles, basketball Uganda took another major stride in its recent surge with a historic 55-43 victory over South Africa on Monday in Yaoundé, Cameroon. For a team making its debut at Africa's premier women's basketball showpiece, this was a sweet moment.

Not least because it came on the back of three straight beatings from African basketball royalty in the form of Gabon, Mozambique and Cameroon. Unfortunately, the Gazelles are at risk of another thrashing today, this time from title-chasing Mali but that is a whole different story. The key point now is the Gazelles have finally etched an Afrobasket victory next to their name.

Like Uganda, South Africa also went into yesterday's matchup with no victory in three games but it was the Gazelles who wound end their losing streak in Group A, with Maureen Amoding and Judith Nansobya sinking a team-high 12 points apiece.

The Gazelles played with just a little more efficiency in front of the basket in an affair that was hard-fought but generally helter-skelter. Peace Proscovia added 11 points and 12 rebounds for Uganda while Flavia Oketcho had five points, five assists, six rebounds and three steals as the Gazelles won every quarter.

That kind of dominance is not expected against Mali, who are loaded with an array of sleek weapons and the confidence of winning gold at the just-concluded All Africa Games.

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