Int’l
Basketball Returns To Sports Commission
Following years of absence of international basketball match in the
country, the Sports Commission on Broad Street is expected to come
alive this Friday with an international friendly basketball match.
Speaking to The Analyst Sports Desk on Tuesday March 21, LBF Secretary
General Fred Pratt said the federation has invited YSC of Sierra Leone
to play in series of international friendly matches in the country.
Mr. Pratt said the YSC of Sierra Leone will play five of the Liberia’s
top basketball clubs in weeklong encounter that is geared towards
promoting peace and reconciliation among the two countries. The five
clubs include Mighty Barrolle, Invincible Eleven (IE), NPA-Pythons,
Uhuru Kings and LPRC-Oilers.
The local basketball house chief scribe further disclosed that the
Sierra Leonean team, which is traveling by road, is expected to be in
the country today, Wednesday, March 22.
The week-long international friendlies will begin on Friday, March 24,
with Mighty Barrolle taking the center stage against the Sierra
Leonean counterpart YSC to open the action at the open air Sports
Commission on Broad Street.
On Saturday, March 25, YSC of Sierra Leonean will take on Invincible
Eleven (IE), and on Sunday, March 26, the National Port Authority
(NPA)-Pythons will sort things out with the visitors.
The friendly encounter will take break on Monday, March 27, and
resumes on Tuesday with the Sierra Leonean side taking on Coach
Solomon George Uhuru Kings while on Wednesday, March 28, LBF current
champions LPRC-Oilers will face the visitors to climax the weeklong
international basketball march at the Sports Commission.
This is the second time the Liberia Basketball Federation (LBF) is
planning to host such friendly international matches at the Sports
Commission. The LBF’s first attempt was turned down by two African
clubs from Nigeria and Ivory Coast.
Reports gathered say Liberians are said be happy over this latest
develop especially the basketball lovers, who quest to see
international returning to the Country is high. At the same time the
five Liberian top basketball teams are in high gear for the friendly
international basketball match over the weekend.
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