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Kenyan champions KPA out of Basketball Africa League

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Baraka Sadick of Pazi (center) in action against KPA.[FIBA]

Baraka Sadick Athumani will remain a Tanzanian hero for, possibly, a long time as he stole the show, scoring the all-important basket to send Pazi to the Road to BAL East Division Elite 16 with a 69-67 dramatic win in their final qualifier match.

Playing Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) in a high-stakes match at a packed IST Gymnasium in Dar es Salaam in Group C of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) qualifiers, Athumani scored 21 points to emerge the side's second-best scorer.

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