{"id":32679,"date":"2017-02-20T00:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/handball-league-police-claim-top-spot\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T00:10:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T00:10:48","slug":"handball-league-police-claim-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/handball-league-police-claim-top-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Handball League: Police claim top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police Handball Club has continued its wonderful start of the season after beating APR by 40 goals to 38 in a tightly contested match played at Kimisagara youth sports centre on Sunday.}<\/p>\n<p>Both clubs entered the match well knowing that a win by either of them would automatically set a lead margin as the league entered Day Four.<\/p>\n<p>None of the teams had lost any league match this season, although the law enforcers was leading with nine maximum points followed by APR with six, but with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth straight win for the five time champions, therefore, means that Police have set a 3-point difference at the top to increase chances of their fourth straight<\/p>\n<p>This is the club\u2019s fourth league win in all four games played which takes them to 12 points<\/p>\n<p>Police&#8217;s Gilbert Mutuyimana and Habimana Jean Baptiste scored nine and eight match high individual goals, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Police head coach, Assistant Inspector of Police (AIP) Antoine Ntabanganyimana commended the solid performance of the players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPR are equally a good side and beating them means a lot in in such a competition. There was early preparation, determination and hard work to fill the gaps, and in the end we come out successful,\u201d said the police coach.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u2019s next match is away against ADEGI- GITUZA on February 25.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18334 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/police_handball_team.png\" alt=\"Police handball team \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police Handball Club has continued its wonderful start of the season after beating APR by 40 goals to 38 in a tightly contested match played at Kimisagara youth sports centre on Sunday.} Both clubs entered the match well knowing that a win by either of them would automatically set a lead margin as the league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[550],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-police"],"bylines":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32679"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32679"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}