France, the second-ranked ranked wheelchair basketball team in the world, have arrived in South Africa for their tour and true to form, have stamped their authority on the game with two solid wins over the Discovery & Ricoh Invitational teams this week, beating the Discovery 71-57 and the Ricoh 61-34.
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Wheelchair Basketball SA celebrated its 14th year of partnership finals with DsTV giants SuperSport and what a way to celebrate -- Saturday's final was contested by two old-time rivals, the Pretoria Bladerunners and the AGA Matlosana Lions at a packed Vodacom Mandeville Indoor Stadium.
The Ricoh Pumas were eliminated from the top four spots in the SuperSport wheelchair basketball series at the weekend.
The Eastern Cape Basketball Association have extended an invitation to all provinces to compete at their fourth annual women's tournament in Port Elizabeth on 7-9 August, 2010.
The University of Pretoria will be conducting developmental basketball clinics for interested players and coaches.
The local derby weekend saw wheelchair basketball games being played in the Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth (hosted by the DHL Flyers), KZN, Pietermaritzburg (hosted by the Visa Wings) and in the North West, Orkney (hosted by Matlosana AGA Lions).
Botswana's Kutlwano beat South African club Liberte 3-1 to win the African Zone Six club championships in Durban on Sunday.
The South African men's side went down 88-72 to hosts Libya in their opening fixture of the African championships in Tripoli.
The South African men's and women's basketball teams have busy winter schedules coming up.