Liberia's Female Basketball Opponents Land In Monrovia
By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.
Liberian female players will for the first time
taste international basketball when they take on their counterparts
from Niger over the weekend. The guest team arrived in Monrovia on
Wednesday.
The female basketballers of both countries are to compete in the Zone
III preliminaries of the African Women Championship.
All of the Zone III countries, including Ghana, Benin,
Burkina Faso, Togo, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, were expected in Monrovia
for the preliminaries, but for an apparent fear of insecurity in the
country, the LBF has named only Niger as the team coming to Liberia.
Therefore, it has been disclosed by the basketball
authorities that the Lone Star of Liberia female squad will meet their
Nigerrien counterpart in a two-match affairs at the Sports Commission
on Broad Street.
According to the fixture released by the LBF, the first
match will see Liberia hosting Niger on Friday, April 8, while the
latter will subsequently serve as the home side a day later.
The governing body of African basketball, FIBA-Afrique
has assigned Youssouf Jean Marc Cisse of Ivory Coast and Abdourahme
Toure of Guinea as referees for the two matches. FIBA-Afrique also
named Daniel Adu Poku of Ghana as Technical Commissioner and Arnaud
Sevaux as Statistician.
However, the LBF said it has sought permission for its league matches
to coincide with the international matches.
Thus, Friday, April 8 will see NPA Pythons meeting LPRC
Oilers while Mighty Barrolle will face Invincible Eleven (IE) on
Saturday, April 8.
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