{"id":56889,"date":"2023-11-02T14:53:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/zone-v-womens-championship-reg-to-face-gladiators-in-playoffs"},"modified":"2023-11-02T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:10:52","slug":"zone-v-womens-championship-reg-to-face-gladiators-in-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/zone-v-womens-championship-reg-to-face-gladiators-in-playoffs","title":{"rendered":"Zone V Women\u2019s Championship: REG to face Gladiators in playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Damas Sikubwabo<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Quarter-finals<\/p>\n<p>KPA Vs Legend Nile<\/p>\n<p>Equity Bank Vs Vijana Queens<\/p>\n<p>APR Vs JKL Lady Dolphins<\/p>\n<p>REG Vs Gladiators<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda Energy Group (REG) women basketball club will Thursday, November 2, take on Burundian Gladiators in quarterfinal playoffs of the FIBA Zone V women\u2019s championship which is underway at Lyce\u0301e de Kigali Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Gladiators finished in third place in Group A, hence drawing Group B second-placed REG.<\/p>\n<p>Beating JKL Lady Dolphins 66-65 in their last group game on Wednesday night didn\u2019t prevent the Rwandan representatives from losing the top spot to Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) who won all their games including a 72-42 stunning upset over REG on Tuesday, October 31 to lead the charge.<\/p>\n<p>APR seeks to maintain unbeaten run ahead of Equity Bank tie<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, APR also finished in second place in Group A after losing one game in three games which was against Equity Bank(56-63). They will face Uganda\u2019s JKL Lady Dolphins in the last eight playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The eight teams that qualified for the FIBA Zone V women\u2019s championship playoffs are: REG and APR (Rwanda), KPA and Equity Bank (Kenya), Vijana Queens (Tanzania), Gladiators (Burundi), Nile Legends (South Sudan) and JKL Lady Dolphins of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>JKT were eliminated from the competition after failing to win a single game, hence finishing fifth in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Four quarterfinalists will advance to the semifinals where the winners will face off in the final to battle for the trophy. The losers in the last tour will play a third-place game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damas Sikubwabo Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Thursday Quarter-finals KPA Vs Legend Nile Equity Bank Vs Vijana Queens APR Vs JKL Lady Dolphins REG Vs Gladiators Rwanda Energy Group (REG) women basketball club will Thursday, November 2, take on Burundian Gladiators in quarterfinal playoffs of the FIBA Zone V women\u2019s championship which is underway at Lyce\u0301e de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-56889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"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>Zone V Women\u2019s Championship: REG to face Gladiators in playoffs - 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