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Basketball: KPA bag slim win in Zone Five tourney

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Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) women basketball players celebrates with the Kenya Basketball Federation Premier League trophy after they won the league by beating Equity Bank women basketball players in the play-offs finals at the Makande Gynasium over the weekend, February 25, 2018. KPA won 79-49 to be crowned the 2017 champions. [PHOTO BY GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].

Defending champions Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) needed half a basket to begin their women title defence with victory as the FIBA Africa Zone Five basketball championships entered day two yesterday in Dar es salaam, Tanzania.

KPA were on the receiving end from the first whistle trailing their opponents APR of Rwanda in both halves.

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