{"id":104266,"date":"2025-06-28T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5"},"modified":"2025-06-28T14:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T14:24:48","slug":"apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5","title":{"rendered":"APR Defeats Patriots to Extend Series to Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Friday, June 28-Game 4<\/p>\n<p>APR 87-63 Patriots<\/p>\n<p>APR and Patriots will square in take-or-go-home semi-final Game 5 after the former took Game 4 at Bk Arena on Friday night to level the series 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5, scheduled for June 29, will determine the team which will join Rwanda Energy Group (REG) in the finals of the 2025 Rwanda Basketball League.<\/p>\n<p>Aliou Diarra ran the show with a double-double (25 points, 18 rebounds) as APR bounced back from Wednesday\u2019s 65-59 Game 3 loss against Patriots to dominate the same side in a convincing 87-63 win.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ<\/b>: Playoffs: Patriots down APR in Game 3 as REG advance to finals<\/p>\n<p>Power forward Frank Kamndoh contributed 22 points for Patriots but the likes of Williams Isaiah Rasheed and Cadeau de Dieu Furaha weren\u2019t at their usual best as APR brought the series level.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, REG reached playoffs finals after overpowering UGB in first three games of the best-of-five semi-finals, 82-74, 96-84 and 89-81.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Friday, June 28-Game 4 APR 87-63 Patriots APR and Patriots will square in take-or-go-home semi-final Game 5 after the former took Game 4 at Bk Arena on Friday night to level the series 2-2. Game 5, scheduled for June 29, will determine the team which will join Rwanda Energy Group (REG) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":104264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[5681,758,5013],"class_list":["post-104266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-playoffs","tag-rwanda","tag-rwanda-basketball-league"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APR Defeats Patriots to Extend Series to Game 5 - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Friday, June 28-Game 4 APR 87-63 Patriots APR and Patriots will square in take-or-go-home semi-final Game 5 after the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APR Defeats Patriots to Extend Series to Game 5\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Friday, June 28-Game 4 APR 87-63 Patriots APR and Patriots will square in take-or-go-home semi-final Game 5 after the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-28T14:08:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-28T14:24:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/sm_1751107993.598285.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"708\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"APR Defeats Patriots to Extend Series to Game 5\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-28T14:08:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-28T14:24:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/sm_1751107993.598285.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Playoffs\",\"Rwanda\",\"Rwanda Basketball league\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/apr-defeats-patriots-to-extend-series-to-game-5\",\"name\":\"APR Defeats Patriots to Extend Series to Game 5 - 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