{"id":21054,"date":"2016-03-21T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T09:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=21054"},"modified":"2016-03-21T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T09:35:45","slug":"central-health-netball-gathers-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/03\/21\/central-health-netball-gathers-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Health netball gathers momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Health Lilongwe and District Netball League (LDNL) has gathered momentum with teams engaging an extra gear, four weeks into the new season.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are leaving no stone unturned in their quest for top positions with giants, Blue Eagles Sisters and Civonets dominant.<\/p>\n<p>The two giants are teaching some netball lessons to smaller teams in the league.<\/p>\n<p>After four weeks of action, Eagles lead the league with 12 points at par with Civonets, but the police outfit has a superior goal difference. Mafco are third with eight points.<\/p>\n<p>LDNL chairperson, Charity Malanga, said teams had engaged an extra gear while battling for top positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have watched exciting netball since the league stared. Teams are now in shape and we believe we will identify more good players this season,\u201d Malanga said.<\/p>\n<p>Central Health representative, Sarah Bauleni, said they were overwhelmed by the response from the teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeams are playing well and the patronage has also been encouraging. We are happy that a lot of girls and women are now aware of the cervical cancer through the messages that we are disseminating during the league games,\u201d Bauleni said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 20 teams are playing in the league, which is being sponsored by Central Health Limited, Women\u2019s Clinic to the tune of K2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsorship aims at developing netball while also promoting awareness about cervical cancer screening and vaccine for girls through the league\u2019s ambassador, Takondwa Lwazi, of Blue Eagles Sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Health Lilongwe and District Netball League (LDNL) has gathered momentum with teams engaging an extra gear, four weeks into the new season. Teams are leaving no stone unturned in their quest for top positions with giants, Blue Eagles Sisters and Civonets dominant. The two giants are teaching some netball lessons to smaller teams in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21054","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\/21054","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=21054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21057,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054\/revisions\/21057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}