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Fungai Lupande-Sports Reporter
BINDURA University of Science Education’s basketball team in Ekaterinburg, Russia, won its first group match at the International University Sports Festival when they beat the National University of LaMatanza of Argentina 21-14 yesterday.
BUSE Assistant Sports Director Munarwo Tinashe said they are optimistic of bringing medals back home after putting together a competitive team.
Munarwo said the team consists of talented students at the university who have dominated tertiary and university basketball in Zimbabwe for the past five years.
“These are talented ordinary students who won gold at the CUCSA games in Malawi in 2022,” he said.
The team comprises of the captain Tafadzwa Kahari, Innocent Zhomwa Sando a Zimbabwe national team player, Tembelton Tendekai Mukwesha, Tamuka Innocent Chikanya, coach Brian and Tendai Nyakambangwe.
They already played their first group game against National University of LaMatanza Argentina, winning 21-14.
“Tomorrow (today) we play two group games against Moscow State Academy of Physical Education (Russia) at around 11am (Ekaterinburg time and Payame Noor University (Iran) 4pm,” he said. BUSE are among the 16 universities at the event.
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter