Uganda Nationwide U18 Basketball workforce, Junior Silverbacks misplaced their third consecutive sport in in opposition to Nigeria on Tuesday afternoon .
This was their final group sport within the FIBA U18 Afrobsket championship happening in Pretoria, SouthAfrica till 14th September.
A 73:61 loss at full time introduced an finish to the junior silverbacks disappointing marketing campaign following losses to Angola and Egypt within the opening group B video games.
They now bow out of the event and miss out on a change to qualify for subsequent yr’s FIBA U19 World Cup to be performed in Switzerland.
In opposition to Nigeria, Uganda had a false begin with a 15 level deficit however the workforce got here again stronger and managed to outscore Nigeria within the second half.
Nevertheless the sport was already out of thier arms. Mukisa Musiru Nkugwa had a steller particular person efficiency posting 17point, together with Brilliant Galiwango who scored 16 these two have been Uganda’s high scoreres whereas Nigeria’s Azeez Olaitan Sulaimon was the video games main scorer with 23 factors.
On the women facet, the junior gazelles superior to the quarter finals after two wins and one loss that assured a second positioned end in group C topped by Egypt.
They’ll play in opposition to Tunisia on Wednesday within the quarter finals.
