Sharing promoted to NBL

Bu Charles Mutebi
 
FUBA Div 1 Playoffs
Semis results
Men: Sharing 50 Riders 31
(Sharing win series 2-0)

Women: Crane High 64 YMCA 46
(Crane High win series2-0)

Nkumba 53 Angels 45
(Nkumba win series 2-0)

FUBA D-League
Phenoms 63 Livingstone 62
(Phenoms win series 2-0)

UPDF 122 Sky Jammers 86
(UPDF win series 2-0)
 
 
THE Sharing Youth are back.  Hello NBL. And, yes, goodbye to the FUBA men’s division 1 – for one season at least.
 
Steven Otoa snatched 10 points and 11 rebounds and Nicholas Ola dropped a game-high 13 points as Sharing defeated the Knight Riders 50-31 in Game 2 of the best-of-three FUBA Men’s Division One playoff semifinals Saturday at the YMCA to regain promotion to the elite National Basketball League (NBL). Seven years later.
 
In the interim, Sharing still have to face Diamond in the Sun in the best-of-five 2013 FUBA Men’s Division One Finals but for both clubs the real task has been accomplished.

Gaining entrance into the land of Uganda’s basketball giants like the Falcons, D’Mark Power and Riham Warriors.
 
“I don’t want to hear talk of the NBL now, we still have a final to play,” protested Sharing captain Ben Lule in the team’s jovial post-match meeting. But his words fell on deaf ears as his players continued to bask in the feat of taking Sharing back where it fell in 2006.
 
Sharing, formed in 1999, were demoted for the first time to what was then the FUBA Division 2 sevens year ago.

A year later, they dropped to third tier, where they languished for two seasons before regaining promotion to the second division. They were relegated to the third tier at the end of that season.
 
But under the sacrificial leadership of Lule, the club regrouped and started on a three-year onslaught that has seen them regain promotion to the NBL.

Sharing who won the 2013 FUBA Men’s Division One regular season, were simply too strong for the Knight Riders, whose coach Adam Kakuru admitted, “the better team won”.
 
The Riders were led by Eli Atuhairwe with seven points.