{"id":40790,"date":"2020-02-03T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/reg-bbc-rp-iprc-huye-wbbc-lift-basketball\/"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T10:47:09","slug":"reg-bbc-rp-iprc-huye-wbbc-lift-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/reg-bbc-rp-iprc-huye-wbbc-lift-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"REG BBC, RP-IPRC Huye WBBC lift Basketball National Heroes\u2019 cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament is organized by the Rwanda Basketball Federation (FERWABA) in partnership with The Chancellery for Heroes, National Orders and Decorations of Honor (CHENO) to mark National Heroes\u2019 Day that is commemorated on February 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Among men\u2019s teams, REG BBC met APR BBC in the finals for which the former was playing finals for the third time consecutively and the latter was a first-timer. <\/p>\n<p>As the match got into motion, REG BBC right from the start performed well, outperforming APR BBC in the first quarter with 21 points against 15. In the second quarter, it scored 25 points against 17 points of APR BBC and went to the half-time having a difference of 14 points (46-32).<\/p>\n<p>Even though APR BBC reduced the difference in points in the third quarter, making it only nine (57-48), REG BBC took the game with 71-62 points, winning the tournament for the third time consecutively. <\/p>\n<p>Among women\u2019s teams, RP-IPRC Huye WBBC which had previously won the tournament in 2018, took it again after beating The Hoops Rwanda 70-47 points.<\/p>\n<p>The first quarter left The Hoops Rwanda beat, with RP-IPRC Huye WBBC\u2019s 18 points over 9 points of The Hoops Rwanda. However, in the second quarter of the match, the game took another turn as The Hoops Rwanda scored 18 points over 13 of RP-IPRC Huye WBBC, making a total of 31-27.<\/p>\n<p>RP-IPRC Huye WBBC surged its points in the third quarter, with 23 points against 12 points of The Hoops Rwanda. In the last quarter, RP-IPRC Huye WBBC won the final game with 70 points against 47 of The Hoops Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Both the winning teams, REG BBC and IPRC Huye WBBC were given cups and checks of Rwf 500,000 each. APR BBC and The Hoops Rwanda, coming second in the tournament, received Rwf 300,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34656 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igih0424_-_copy-d0c15.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34657 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igih0431-2-956cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34658 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igih0475-3-e42b4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34659 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igih0484-52833.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34660 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igih0508-fd49d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34661 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igih0531-95c33.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REG BBC has won the Basketball National Heroes\u2019 Tournament 2020 for men after scoring 71 points against 62 of APR BBC. Among the women\u2019s teams, RP-IPRC Huye won the tournament against The Hoops Rwanda, with 70-47 scores. The matches took place on Sunday, January 2, 2020, at Petit Stade, Remera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[236],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-alain-jules-hirwa"],"bylines":[{"id":236,"name":"Alain Jules Hirwa","slug":"alain-jules-hirwa","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":81}],"contributors":[{"id":236,"name":"Alain Jules Hirwa","slug":"alain-jules-hirwa","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":81}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40790"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40790"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}