Algeria to host 2014 Girls U18 African Nations Volleyball Championship

African Volleyball confederation “CAVB” honoured Algeria to host the 2014 Girls’ Youth (U18) African Nations championship September 5 to 15, 2014.

The competition acts as a qualifier for the 2015 FIVB Girls U18 World Championship.

Players who are Eligible to participate in this competition are those who were born on 1st of January 1998 or after.

Egypt are the defending champions of this competition as they won the last edition in 2013 in Cairo defeating Tunisia in the final.

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Egypt receiving the 2014 Girls U18 CAVB African Nations Volleyball Championship trophy

Lagos Television Wins SWAN VITA GLUCOSE-D TUG OF WAR TOURNEY

Lagos SWAN Tug of war tourney 2014

Lagos Television has emerged as winner of the maiden edition of the SWAN Vita Glucose D Tug of War tournament.

Team LTV defeated hard fighting Team Super Sports in the final by 2-0 to cart home the overall trophy and a cash prize of N30,000.

Team Super Sports for coming second went home with a trophy and cash prize of N20,000.

Earlier before the final, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had defeated Newfanzone.com 2-1 to win the third place match.

Team NAN went home with a trophy and N10,000 while Team Newfanzone.com won the Best Behaved Team Award and a cash prize of N5,000.

A total of 12 teams participated in the tournament which started on Thursday and ended on Friday with the final ceremony.

CEO of Vital Health Limited, Mohammed Ashrat while commending the participating teams, said “this is the beginning of a lasting relationship with SWAN”.

We are going to improve on this and come out better and stronger by the next edition”, he said.

Chairman of Lagos SWAN, Fred Edoreh thanked the sponsors and members of SWAN for the success of the tournament.

“We thank our sponsors for this successful event and it is our hope and prayer that next edition will be bigger and better”, he said.

The event was packaged by O & I Contact Limited, the marketing company under the leadership of Mr. Isaac O. Isaac.

ENTRIES ANNOUNCED FOR 2014 WORLD ROWING UNDER 23 CHAMPIONSHIPS

The World Rowing Federation, FISA, has announced entries for the 2014 World Rowing Under 23 Championships to be held in Varese, Italy from 23-27 July 2014.

A large turnout of 800 of the best under-23 rowers in the world, covering 51 nations will race in Varese. The single sculling boat classes have attracted the biggest fields among both the men and the women. The men’s single has 30 scullers and the women’s has 22 scullers. The lightweight men’s single sculls also has a huge turnout of 25 entries, while the lightweight women’s single has 21 entries.

Boris Yotov of Azerbaijan and Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczyk of Poland will be hot contenders in the men’s single. They both medalled at the World Rowing Junior Championships last year and Yotov already has a silver medal from this year’s European Rowing Championships in the men’s double. The 2012 World Junior Champion Michal Plocek of the Czech Republic is back in the single after finishing second in the double at last year’s World Rowing Under-23 Championships.

The women’s single has 2013 World Rowing Junior Champion Jessica Leyden of Great Britain and World Junior silver medallist Tatsiana Klimovich of Belarus racing. Leyden and Klimovich will face the more senior Elza Gulbe of Latvia who was third last year in the single at the World Under-23 Championships.

The United States has become regular winners in the women’s eight and are the current World Under-23 Champions. Their line up this year, however, is completely new apart from one; Erin Boxberger. The United States will expect the strongest competition to come from Germany, Australia and Great Britain. For the men, New Zealand men’s eight is the reigning World Under-23 Champion and this crew remains the same as in 2013. Their main competition will come from the United States and Germany with last year’s bronze medallists, Poland likely to be strong.

Both Italy and Germany are sending complete teams of 21 boats. These two nations are strong in under-23 rowing and, at the event in 2013, Germany was on top in the medal table, followed by Italy and then the United States and Romania.

Varese, in northern Italy, is a popular rowing venue. A new regatta course and a new finish tower were installed for the 2012 European Rowing Championships and it is used by a number of international crews as a training base. Varese will host stages of the 2015 and 2016 World Rowing Cup series as well.

The World Rowing Under 23 Championships is raced in 21 boat classes and is open to all FISA member nations for athletes under the age of 23. The under-23s began in 1976 as the ‘Seniors Match’ and then became the ‘Nations Cup’. It became the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in 2005.

For entries, timetable, full reports, live audio streaming, live results and live blogging during the event go to: http://www.worldrowing.com.

DSTV Basketball League Final 8 Day Three Results

Day 3 Results 15/7/2014

2014 Nigeria DStv Premier Basketball League Final 8 , Adeola Olaiya in jersey No 9 of Kano Pillars and Philemon Dimka Plateau Peaks

Union Bank 77-71 Plateau Peaks
Emeka. A 25 Pts, 7 rebs / Njoku C. 16 pts, 10 rebs
Ikonshul G.18 Pts, 3 rebs / Prewit G. 10 Pts, 4 rebs

Oluyole Warriors 34-53 Gombe Bulls
Balogun K. 10 Pts , 3 rebs / Sylvanus Yakubu 22 Pts, 10 rebs
Bayo A. 8 Pts, 5 rebs / Austin Eye 10 Pts, 4 rebs

Islanders 50-53 Mark Mentors
Hillary A. 22 Pts, 1 rebounds / Gumut S. 13 Pts, 6 rebs
Solomon I. 6 Pts, 5 rebs / Victor Anthony 11 Pts, 6 rebs

Dodan Warriors 79 -84 Kano Pillars
Romaric Q. 27 Pts, 7 rebs / Abu Usman 31 Pts, 4 rebs
Azuoma D. 19 Pts, 8 rebs, 4 asts / Ademola D.16 Pts, 10rebs

Semi Finals ( Fri. 17/7/2014)
Kano Pillars Vs Gombe Bulls
Mark Mentors Vs Dodan Warriors

Prewet Gagara in jersey No 5 of Plateau Peaks going for a dunk against Kano Pillars player during the 2014 Nigeria DStv Premier Basketball League Final 8

Note: Tomorrow Wednesday 16th July, 2014 will be observed as a rest day.
Action resumes on Thursday in the classification games.

WE’LL ROAST RWANDA IN KADUNA- FALCONS BOAST

Super Falcons have on arrival in Kaduna Wedneday afternoon vowed to beat the She Amavubi of Rwanda silly in their second leg Africa women Chamoionship (AWC) qualifier at the Ahmadu Bello stadium on Saturday.

Falcons after having a feel of the Ahmadu Bello stadium pitch soon on arrival on Wednesday assured that they would consolidate the 4-1 advantage from the first leg in Rwanda by winning very well. 

The girls, oozing with optimism agreed that the She Amavubi’s  would come fighting, but they would be beaten soundly again in response to the charge of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to finish what they started two weeks ago by dismissing Rwanda from the AWC.

Skipper of Super Falcons, Evelyn Nwabuoku said there was no cause for alarm as they are ready for whatever opposition  Rwanda will offer adding
“We are ready for them and we are not really concerned about the pitch
whether it is artificial or grass,we are at home and we’ll make it count”

Veteran Onome Ebi said Rwanda will fall no matter how much they try noting that Falcons are looking beyond the qualifiers and are focussing on the AWC in Namibia.

Midfielder Asisat Oshoala on her part said that Super Falcons are set to make the first leg score line look like a child’s play as they would pummel their visitors come Saturday.

Rising star, Chiwendu Ihezuo said they would not underrate their guest despite having a 4-1 lead from the first leg in Gisenyi pointing out “we want to hold tight to our lead and try to win again by whatever goals margin.

The Rwandan delegation are expected to arrive Abuja on Thursday from Kigali and will then make the two hours journey by road to Kaduna for the match on Saturday.

Super Falcons Training in Kaduna

Lagos SWAN unveils sponsor, partners for SWAN Cup 2014

The Sport Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) Lagos Chapter yesterday at its secretariat at the National Stadium Lagos, unveiled Winners Golden Bet.com as the major sponsor for this year’s Lagos SWAN Cup billed to kick off next week Thursday, April 24 at the Legacy Pitch of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

The body also unveiled some of its other partners for the event which include Nigeria Sports Award; Owu Sports wears outfit among others.

Deji Beecroft Assistant General Manager of WinnersGoldenBet.com in his comment said that the company decided to support the SWAN because of the role of the sporting media in Nation building.

“Sports reporting is a very complicated job that needs lots of courage and sense of timing and Lagos SWAN members have done well in reporting events both locally and internationally thereby making it easy for Nigerians to follow happenings in this various competitions across the world, hence our resolve to support this event”. He informed.

Chairman of the body, Fred Edoreh said at the unveiling ceremony which also had in attendance ex-international, Paul Okoku as well as Vice Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association (LSFA) Alhaji Tade Azeez and former Head of Communications, Multichoice, Segun Fayose

“Our new sponsor, Winners Golden Bet.com is a reputable sports business organisation which has shown tremendous capacity and commitment to sports development and provision of added value for sports fans and enthusiasts and we are very happy and extremely grateful to associate with them for the SWAN Cup,” said Edoreh.

Ex-international Paul Okoku

The SWAN Cup designed to promote healthy living and friendship among journalists on the sports desks of the various media houses is the major feature of the Lagos SWAN Week. The week shall also feature a seminar on “Sports journalism and nation building”, a topic which the SWAN chairman says “is most imperative at this point in the development of our nation.”

Meanwhile, the 16 teams participating in this year’s edition of the SWAN Cup have been drawn into four groups of four teams each. Defending champions, Complete Sports; TVC; LTV/Eko FM and Radio Nigeria are in Group A while last edition’s runners up, NTA leads Group B. Others in the group include City FM; Cool FM and Sportsville.

In Group C are former champions, SportsDay; SuperSports; Brila FM and Top Radio while Silverbird; Mastersports; Sky Sports and The Sun Newspapers are in Group D.
Edoreh announced that Team Lagos SWAN will take on Team Nollywood in a novelty match which will herald the opening ceremony of the championship.

Kunle Adeyeye of FRCN Conducting the Draws

Group A
Complete Sports
TVC/Radio Continental
LTV/Eko FM
Radio Nigeria

Group B
NTA
City FM
CoolWazobiaInfo
Sportsville

Group C
SportsDay
SuperSports
Brila FM
Top Radio

Group D
Silverbird
Mastersports
Sky Sports
The Sun Newspapers