Author: George Duah

Mfantsipim School beat West African Senior High School 35-16 baskets to become champions of the competition. The Cape Coast based side continued their romping of opponents in the Sprite Basketball Championship with an impressive 35-16 baskets against West African Senior High School to lift the Sprite Basketball Championship trophy. The group D side had a smooth operation from the group stages, winning all five games to become the new champion of the competition without defeat en rout to their Championship title winning display. Mfantsipim join St. Augustine’s School, Opoku Ware SHS and Presec Legon as the four winners of the…

Kumasi Girls Senior High School served a peach performance against Mfantsiman Girls Senior High School to retain for Sprite Basketball Championship title. Kumasi Girls snatched 22-14 baskets against Mfantsiman Girls to lift the coveted trophy for the second time running. KUGIS become the second school to win the title back to back after Sacred Hearts Senior High School. Shama Senior High School also defeated St. Louis Senior High School in the bronze medal game to win the bronze title.

Shama Senior High School bounced back stronger against St. Louis Senior High School in a closely contested Bronze Medal place game to snatch 2 baskets different victory. SHASS narrowly ran away with 16-14 baskets game against St. Louis with the bronze medal. The victory means SHASS avenged their earlier group stage defeat to St Louis and become the only school from Western Region to win a medal. With defeats to St. John’s School and Sekondi College in the quarter final stage of the Boys Division, Shama Senior High School had the faith of the region in the grips and did…

Sekondi College and St. John’s School have been bundled out of the quarter finals stage of the Sprite Basketball Championship losing to West African Secondary School and Opoku Ware Secondary School. The two Second cycle schools representing Western Region in the Sprite Basketball Championship lost their respective games and will be packing home. Sekondi College lost 18-29 baskets to West African Secondary School, Opoku Ware School defeated St. John’s School 23-18 baskets. The region will currently vest it’s hope in Shama Senior high School in the Girls Division. Shama finished as runner ups to St. Louis in group B and…

All three schools representing the western region in the nostalgia Sprite Basketball Championship have secured slots to the quarter final stage after an impressive showing in the group stages. Sekondi College in the boys division beat competition from Presbyterian Boys, Osu and Bishop Herman College to end us group A winners. With that, SECKO will fist up against WASS in the quarter final stage tomorrow. St John’s School after a disappointing outing in their opening game against Mfantsipim School by 39-19 baskets snatched the runner up slot in group D following a heavy victory against Keta Business College. St. John’s…

St. John’s School is the first Western Region school to lose a game at the Sprite Basketball Championship after after an outstanding 20 baskets different against Mfantsipim School. The group D encounter was the first for St. John’s School, losing to former champions Mfantsipim, the Cape Coast School snatched a record 39-19 baskets victory to book a quarter final berth. St. John’s will now have to win at all cost against Keta Business College to stand and chance of making it to the quarter final stage. Shama Senior High School were winners against Accra Wesley Girls, 22-19 was the scoreline…

Former Interclube Luanda attacker, Richard Arthur has completed a two year deal with Ethiopian side, St. George Sports Club which will see him tied to the topflight side till January, 2021. Richard Arthur successfully had his release letter as a player of Wa All Stars November 2018, and has since pursued a new deal elsewhere. Arthur, 25, was the topscorer in the 2015-16 Ghana Premier League winning team of Wa All Stars, with 8 goals. He successfully moved to the Girabola League side Interclube Luanda, where he played 13 matches and scored 8 goals to emerge as the side’s best…

Schools representing the Western Region have tipped off right in the Sprite Basketball Championship with wins in first stage games. In the Boy’s division, Sekondi College leapfrogged Presbyterian Boys, Osu, to the summit of the log with a 26-20 basket to set up a deciding quarter final slot game against Bishop Herman College. Shama Senior High School, in the Girls Division thumped Nkawkaw Senior High School, 20-9 baskets and will be meeting St Louis Girls and Accra Wesley Girls Senior High School. The competition continues as St. John’s School, the yet to compete school from the region will take on…

Chairman and President of Tema Youth Football Club, Wilfred Osei Kwaku Palmer continued his benevolent gesture by partnering Sekondi-Takoradi media personnel to donate the family of the late sports broadcaster, Lord Aminu Zylla. For the second time since the untimely demise of the late broadcast journalist Lord Aminu Zylla, the media fraternity in Sekondi-Takoradi prompted smiles on the faces of the children of late Lord Aminu Zylla by supporting them with items worth GHS 3,150.00. Late Aminu Zylla met his untimely death whilst on his way to Nduom Sports Stadium, Elmina to perform his official duties for the Ghana Premier…

Global FM/Volta 1 TV’s Christian Chibueze has been adjudged the Exceptional Male Sports Journalist at the 3rd Annual Ghana Sports Excellence Awards held at the British Council in Accra Friday, 4th January 2019. Chibueze, who, hither to this feat, was nominated in the 2nd edition of the Ghana Sports Excellence Awards in 2015, lost to Nathan Quao of Citi Sports. He was adjudged the overall best after being shortlisted for the year ending 2018. Christian Chibueze, popularly known in media circles as Mourinho/Eze1, joined Ho-based Global FM in 2016 from Kekeli Radio (Ho) after having stints with KUUL FM (Ho),…