Tertiary Students Sports Association of Malawi (TESSAM) has finaly come up with a final squad which will represent
Malawi in CUCSA Zone VI games which will be hosted by Malawi in July.
The exercise took place at Chancellor College in Zomba where 300 students from different colleges attended. These students
were selected during the identification exercise which took place in October last year.
Tertiary Students Sports Association of Malawi (TESSAM) has finaly come up with a final squad which will represent Malawi in CUCSA Zone VI games which will be hosted by Malawi in July.
The exercise took place at Chancellor College in Zomba where 300 students from different colleges attended. These students were selected during the identification exercise which took place in October last year.
According to Bob Kandulu (coach), he said that their aim is to equip the final squad with skills before the CUCSA games. He further said that to accomplish their aim, they will be camping with the final squad frequently and exposing them to international friendly games. The selected squad is expected to go back into camp on 20 april 2008.
The following are the countries likely to participate in CUCSA games: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Despite Malawi having alot of potential players who can improve basketball in Malawi,
it is still a dream to improve basketball in since most of the problems are not looked
into and dealt with.
A shortage of basketball courts is the major problem which affects basketball in Malawi.
Players have to travel long distances to find a basketball court. This affects them since
they reach at basketball courts already tired. Sometimes they do skip training days
because of fatigue.
Despite Malawi having alot of potential players who can improve basketball in Malawi, it is still a dream to improve basketball in since most of the problems are not looked into and dealt with.
A shortage of basketball courts is the major problem which affects basketball in Malawi. Players have to travel long distances to find a basketball court. This affects them since they reach at basketball courts already tired. Sometimes they do skip training days because of fatigue.
The government of Malawi is also to be blamed for poor standards of basketball in Malawi. The government only concentrate on funding football leaving basketball aside. Most of the leagues do not continue due to a lack of funding. This causes a lot of players to not take basketball seriously since they do not benefit from it.
Basketball can not develop without basketball coaches. This is the case in Malawi. Teams do not have coaches instead they use their fellow players to coach them. This contributes to poor standards of basketball since their fellow players cum coaches are not equiped with skills of coaching.
Medical aid is essential to all sporting activities. Most basketball players stop playing basketball for life because when they are seriously injured on the court, there is no medical aid (first aid) to ease the situation.
For basketball to improve in Malawi, the above problems have to be looked into and dealt with immediately. For example, in Angola there are many basketball courts, a lot of basketball coaches, plus the balls are cheap. No wonder Angola is doing great in basketball.
As days get closer to the World Aids Day, some officials from Taiwaneese government in conjuction with the Malawi government organised
a one week tournament which is expected to end tommorow.The tournament was organised in order to bring the youth together to fight for H.I.V AIDS campaign.
The opening ceremony was graced by officials from the ministry of health
and some from government hospitals.
As days get closer to the World Aids Day, some officials from Taiwaneese government in conjuction with the Malawi government organised a one week tournament which is expected to end tommorow.The tournament was organised in order to bring the youth together to fight for H.I.V AIDS campaign. The opening ceremony was graced by officials from the ministry of health and some from government hospitals. Before the tournament, they addressed the youth on the importance of going for voluntary counselling and testing plus the importance of living a positive life when you have contracted the Virus of H.I.V.
The teams which registered for the tournament were divided into two groups( group A and B). The teams in each group competed to find the first and the second team, the teams which won position one and two in each group are meeting in finals tommorrow at 2pm. Thus in the finals for championship,Mzuni Pointers will compete with Court Shorts while Mzuuzu Central hospital will compete with Nkhulande for position three and four. The prizes for the tournament is as follows: 1. K14,000.00 2. k12,000.00 3. k 8,000.00 4. k 6,000.00
It was all smiles for Mimbulu on Saturday 10/11/07 for taking the 2007 Basketball Association of Malawi (Basmal) championship after beating Magang'a 79-59 in the final played at African Bible College in Lilongwe.
Basmal decided to hold the national tournament following Southern Bottlers withdraw of sprite tournament sponsorship.
It was all smiles for Mimbulu on Saturday 10/11/07 for taking the 2007 Basketball Association of Malawi (Basmal) championship after beating Magang'a 79-59 in the final played at African Bible College in Lilongwe.
Basmal decided to hold the national tournament following Southern Bottlers withdraw of sprite tournament sponsorship. In an interview with the general secretary Roy kachale he said that they are facing financial problems but they managed to rise about k110, 000 which used to hold the tournament. Eight teams participated in the competition with Northern zone Basketball league (NOZOBAL) sending two teams, Southern Zone basketball League (SOZOBAL) sending two teams and Central Zone Basketball League (CEZOBAL) sending three teams.
Dynamites and Pistons represented Nozobal, Crazy Warriors and Magang'a represented Sozoball while Capital blazers, Bunda and Mimbulu represented Cezobal. Sozobal was supposed to send three teams but bricks(last years champions) did not turn up instead African bible college (ABC) went into their place. At the end the winners were given a trophy and medals.
The moment everybody was expecting during the last whole season arrived in Lilongwe on 08/11/07 at African bible College where all the qualifying teams from the three regions met to battle out for the 2007 Championship.
In the southern region, the team which qualified were Bricks, Magang'a and Crazy Warriors but Bricks didn't manage to come instead ABC went into their place.
The moment everybody was expecting during the last whole season arrived in Lilongwe on 08/11/07 at African bible College where all the qualifying teams from the three regions met to battle out for the 2007 Championship.
In the southern region, the team which qualified were Bricks, Magang'a and Crazy Warriors but Bricks didn't manage to come instead ABC went into their place. In the Central region, Mimbulu (the 2004 champions), Capital blazers and Bunda College managed to qualify while in the Northern region three teams managed to qualify but only two were needed to participate in the finals and these two teams were Dynamites and Pistons.
The games started on well with Mimbulu taking on Magang'a, Pistons against African Bible College (ABC), Dynamites against Bunda and Crazy warriors against Capital Blazers. In the first round, Mimbulu won while Magang'a lost, Pistons lost while ABC won, Dynamites won while Bunda lost and Crazy Warriors won while Capital Blazers lost.
PISTONS SHINES AT LAST
It was all smiles among people as the NOZOBAL LEAGUE clocked to an end on Saturday 27/10/07 at Katoto basketball court.
The final game was between the Dynamytes and Pistons. As usual, everybody expected that the Dynamytes will win the game, but to everybody's surprise, the Pistons gave their opponents tough time. The Pistons won the game with 52 baskets to 47 baskets.
PISTONS SHINES AT LAST It was all smiles among people as the NOZOBAL LEAGUE clocked to an end on Saturday 27/10/07 at Katoto basketball court.
The final game was between the Dynamytes and Pistons. As usual, everybody expected that the Dynamytes will win the game, but to everybody's surprise, the Pistons gave their opponents tough time. The Pistons won the game with 52 baskets to 47 baskets.
Pistons success was contributed by their point guard Mwasony Phiri. Their guard dished them good passes to the whole team plus he could drive through the zone as if there were no big men.
At the end of the game, the NOZOBAL league committee composed of Young Jere, Henry Nyirenda, Chimwemwe Mhone and Mayamiko gave awards to the teams and the awards were like this.
TEAM AWARD 1. Dynamytes K14,000.00 2. Pistons K12,000.00 3. Mzuni Pointers K5,000.00 4. Luwinga Lakers K3,000.00 5. Ekwendeni K3,000.00 6. Moyale Barracks K3,000.00 7. Nkhulande K3,000.00 This means that Dynamytes and Pistons will represent Northern region at Sprite National finals in Lilongwe on 03/11/07.
The analysis of the whole season is as follows: TEAM GP W L PS PC D P DYNAMYTES 12 11 1 1,076 593 483 22 PISTONS 12 9 3 717 576 141 21 MZUNI 12 8 4 663 637 26 20 LUWINGA LAKERS 12 6 6 495 561 -66 16 EKWENDENI 12 3 9 371 555 -184 13 MOYALE BARRACKS 12 3 9 327 603 -276 13 NKHULANDE 12 2 10 434 801 -367 11
Once again the two rival teams met again in the second round to battle out in a struggle for the Sprite national finals.The Pistons once again won against the Mzuni Pointers during the last 3 minutes of the game which took place at Katoto basketball court.The game was so tight that nobody could predict who would win.
Once again the two rival teams met again in the second round to battle out in a struggle for the Sprite national finals.The Pistons once again won against the Mzuni Pointers during the last 3 minutes of the game which took place at Katoto basketball court.The game was so tight that nobody could predict who would win.
Both teams displayed spectecular moves that made the game to be the best game of the season.In an interview with Young Jere,an official for NOZOBAL he said "this is the best game I have ever officiated this season.The teams could press each other on half line defence for some time before one team could struggle to make a basket, yes this was the best game of the season."
This means that the Pistons and the mzuni Pointers have tied a knot again on position two, nobody Knows who will go for the finals on 03/11/07 but for sure all the two teams know that they will compete using baskets,the one with more baskets the whole season will go for the finals.
The Tertiary Students Sports Association of Malawi(TESSAM) has announced the date for the TESSAM national sports Competition.The competition will take place on 6-8 october 2007 in Lilongwe at Bunda College of Agriculture.
The competition will be used to select players who will represent Malawi during the 2008 CUCSA Zone VI games to be held in Malawi from 25-31 July 2008 in Blantyre.
The Tertiary Students Sports Association of Malawi(TESSAM) has announced the date for the TESSAM national sports Competition.The competition will take place on 6-8 october 2007 in Lilongwe at Bunda College of Agriculture.
The competition will be used to select players who will represent Malawi during the 2008 CUCSA Zone VI games to be held in Malawi from 25-31 July 2008 in Blantyre. CUCSA Zone VI games draw students from Universities and colleges in the SADC region.It is expected that all countries in the SADC wiill participate.
There will be both men and women basketball teams.Below are the participating Universties and colleges during the competition:
Kamuzu college of Nursing The Malawi college of medicine Chancellor college Bunda college The Malawi polytechnic Mzuzu University Mzuzu technical college Lilongwe technical college Namitete college Lilongwe teachers college Domasi teachers college And many more.
On Friday, 14/09/07 Mzuin Pointers were playing against Moyale barracks at Moyale court. Both teams were good in shape despite that the Mzuni Pointers
were just coming back from a one month holiday. The game almost ended with the both teams having equal baskets until Gaveta a.
On Friday, 14/09/07 Mzuin Pointers were playing against Moyale barracks at Moyale court. Both teams were good in shape despite that the Mzuni Pointers were just coming back from a one month holiday. The game almost ended with the both teams having equal baskets until Gaveta a.k.a Zinjathropus got a pass from their pointguard and he took a two-point shot(it just went in clean-without even touching the rim,that was the end of the game).Mzuni Pointers won with 58
baskets to 56 baskets.
Although Gaveta shined in the last 5 seconds but it would have been of no price without the help of their offguard Francis Maujo who was the MVP of the game plus the one with many baskets (he was taking shots like nobody's bussiness).Mzuni pointers was also good at defence,Moyale was finding it difficult to break through the zone because of the two big men-Phyzix and Abel (Mzuni Pointers).
Although Moyale lost but they also played good game,they were physically fit. This is the third time for Mzuni Pointers to beat Moyale Barracks.
