{"id":11514,"date":"2015-11-05T07:42:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T07:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=11514"},"modified":"2015-11-05T07:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T07:45:22","slug":"rainbow-paints-to-evaluate-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/11\/05\/rainbow-paints-to-evaluate-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Paints to evaluate season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbow Paints has promised to evaluate the success of the inaugural season of the Southern Region Netball League before making a commitment of sponsorship for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Rainbow rescued the league with K4 million sponsorship after SRNL lost its sponsorship from OG Issa Group of Companies.<\/p>\n<p>The firm\u2019s representative, Kondwani Banda, said they were impressed with primary findings of how the league performed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level of competition was stiff as most of the teams struggled to earn victories. Even the title has been decided on baskets\u2019 difference and this reflects how stiff the competition was,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Banda\u2019s remarks were in direct reference to Complex Tigresses who won the championship after pipping Kukoma Diamonds on baskets\u2019 difference.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams tied at 48 points.<\/p>\n<p>Banda said Rainbow management would discuss the future of the league at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) vice-chairperson, Chimwemwe Kachingwe, thanked Rainbow Paints for supporting the league as it contributes many national team players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe league forms the benchmark of the national team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>SRNL vice-chairperson, Isaac Chimwala, said the league was impressive at the top and bottom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no easy matches both at the top and bottom table of the league,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainbow Paints has promised to evaluate the success of the inaugural season of the Southern Region Netball League before making a commitment of sponsorship for next season. Rainbow rescued the league with K4 million sponsorship after SRNL lost its sponsorship from OG Issa Group of Companies. The firm\u2019s representative, Kondwani Banda, said they were impressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11521,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions\/11521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}