Online Reporter
Hello Africa!
Welcome to our live coverage of the Confederation of Southern Africa Netball Association (COSANA) Championships in Harare – where excitement is building as 11 clubs from across Southern Africa take to the court to battle it out for glory.
Over the course of the tournament, teams will be competing hard from today through Sunday, delivering fast-paced netball action, stand-out performances, and plenty of thrilling matchups.
This is your front-row seat to every game, every key moment, and the intensity that comes with COSANA championship pride.
Stay tuned as our Reporter Tadious Manyepo delivers live updates, scores, highlights, and the stories behind the teams as the race for the title gets underway!
COSANA opener ends with a draw
CHAPUNGU Queens underlined their growing credentials emphatically when they rallied from the brink of what looked like a certain defeat to force a 49-49 draw against Harare City in the opening fixture of the Confederation of Southern Africa Netball Association (COSANA) at Sunrise Sports Club this morning.
The regional inter-club tournament is being hosted in Zimbabwe for the first time in more than a decade, with 11 teams from across Southern Africa contesting for supremacy.
And the jamboree couldn’t have started more enticingly than it did with two of the country’s giants facing off in the Group A opener.
It was a see-saw affair with Chapungu controlling the first quarter, which they finished with a one-point advantage (21-20).
It got tighter in the second quarter with the teams going to the halftime break level on 28-28 before Harare City seized control of the proceedings, picking up key turnovers and going five points clear (39-34) at the end of the third quarter.
Chapungu never looked like a team that would claw back into it, with Harare City seemingly managing it well by circulating the ball back and forth.
Then the Airforce of Zimbabwe side suddenly erupted with only four minutes remaining, bulldozing their way through their opponents and eventually getting a leveler through Tafadzwa Matura with only three seconds before the final whistle.
Intensive action continues in the COSANA Championships with yet another thriller featuring an all-Zambian showdown between Green Eagles and Green Buffaloes who are opening Group B proceedings, Group A’s first match having finished 49-49 between Harare City and Chapungu (both from Zimbabwe)
Green Buffaloes massacre Green Eagles
GREEN Buffaloes have made their intentions clear in this COSAFA Championship after pinning down their compatriots Green Eagles in Group B opener of the tournament.
A dominant 58-23 win could be the right tonic the military side needs going deep into the contest.
Buffaloes were all over their foes and they deservedly walked out winners.
As the COSANA Championships become more and more lively, Correctional Services from Lesotho and Namibia take to the field.
It’s Correctional Service Lesotho and Namibia Correctional Service on the court doing what they know best.
It’s the prison wardens from Namibia who look to be in control in the opening quarter though
COSANA and Zimbabwe Netball Association President Leticia Chipandu on the netball championships that got underway in Harare today.
📹 : Tadious Manyepo
Chipandu hails COSANA Championships
COSANA president Leticia Chipandu, who is also the Zimbabwe Netball Association boss, has hailed the spirit in which the COSANA games is being played.
Three games have so far gone down in this 11-club fiesta that runs from today until Sunday at Sunrise Sports Club in Harare.
