{"id":67517,"date":"2018-06-26T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67517"},"modified":"2018-06-26T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T04:55:00","slug":"mixed-fortunes-for-bravehearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/26\/mixed-fortunes-for-bravehearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed fortunes for Bravehearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY MABVUTO KAMBUWE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Central Zone Basketball League giants, Bravehearts Men\u2019s and Bravehearts Ladies, endured mixed fortunes during the eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) Invitational Tournament held over the weekend in Manzini.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s team secured fifth spot after exiting the competition from the quarter-final stage whereas the ladies\u2019 team finished as runners-up.<\/p>\n<p>Bravehearts Men\u2019s started on a high, having won three opening games before crashing out of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In an in interview from eSwatini, Bravehearts Patron and Coach, Griffin Kalua, said he was satisfied with the teams\u2019 exploits during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBravehearts Men\u2019s finished fifth in the 16- team tournament involving teams from Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey beat champions of Swaziland, Lesotho and a South African team before losing to a Mozambican team and to eventual champions Phoenix (South Africa) in the quarter-finals. It is the first time for a Malawian team to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand, our ladies also did very well by beating teams from South Africa and Mozambique to reach the final, before losing to Zimbabwe\u2019s Green Stars,\u201d Kalua said<\/p>\n<p>Stars won the ladies\u2019 category championship.<\/p>\n<p>Bravehearts teams were making a debut at the tournament but have participated in several international events in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MABVUTO KAMBUWE &nbsp; Central Zone Basketball League giants, Bravehearts Men\u2019s and Bravehearts Ladies, endured mixed fortunes during the eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) Invitational Tournament held over the weekend in Manzini. The men\u2019s team secured fifth spot after exiting the competition from the quarter-final stage whereas the ladies\u2019 team finished as runners-up. Bravehearts Men\u2019s started on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67517","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\/67517","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=67517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67521,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67517\/revisions\/67521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}