{"id":28302,"date":"2016-07-19T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28302"},"modified":"2016-07-19T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:59:05","slug":"chitakale-sisters-in-rainbow-paints-league-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/19\/chitakale-sisters-in-rainbow-paints-league-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Chitakale Sisters in Rainbow Paints league comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mulanje-based Chitakale Sisters have filled the last slot in the Rainbow Paints Southern Region Netball League, five years after withdrawing from the league.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Region Netball Committee General Secretary, Annie Hanjahanja, confirmed the return of Chitakale to the league, which threw-off a fortnight ago with nine teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the official launch of the league, we assured the gathering that we have 10 teams in the league after admitting Chitakale back to the league,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hanjahanja said there were four teams that wanted to join the league, but Chitakale acted quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Chitakale Sisters Team Manager, Priscilla Duwa, said time was ripe for the team to compete strongly in the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we withdrew in the league some years ago, we were struggling so we wanted to have time to re-organise ourselves. We are now determined to go a long distance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chitakale started their campaign poorly when they went down to defending champions Tigresses 135-23 at Blantyre Youth Centre on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In other matches, Kukoma Diamonds beat Prison Sisters 87- 18, whereas Chilomoni Sisters humbled Young Professionals 57- 37. Thunder Queens defeated Shizael la Queens 76-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mulanje-based Chitakale Sisters have filled the last slot in the Rainbow Paints Southern Region Netball League, five years after withdrawing from the league. Southern Region Netball Committee General Secretary, Annie Hanjahanja, confirmed the return of Chitakale to the league, which threw-off a fortnight ago with nine teams. \u201cDuring the official launch of the league, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28302","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\/28302","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=28302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28304,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28302\/revisions\/28304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}