Rukundo’s 24 points headlines IPRC-South victory against Espoir

Elias Hakizimana Dec 4, 2017Dec 4, 2017 0 Comments

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Fabrice Rukundo lifts up the IPRC-South first incredible victory of the 2017 National Basketball League Championship that kicked- off at Amahoro Stadium.

Rukundo scored 24 points in the IPRS-Souths’ 64-59 victory against Espoir, off the bench to become the top scorer of the game, while his teammate Bienvenu Niyonsaba had 19 points.

The Huye campus basketball team won the first quarter to lead by a point 14-13, however Espoir came back into the 2nd quarter to finish 16-15 as both sides tied on 29 points midway.

IPRC-South then came back strong to lead by 5 points (18-13) in the 3rd quarter, as both sides tied17-17 in final fourth quarter of the game.

**IPRC-South in red against Espoir in the National Basketball league opener at Petit Amahoro Stadium. Courtesy**

In the games, Patriots basketball club were too good for United General Basketball Club when they thumped them 82-66 in the final quarter, going to lead all throughout the quarters.

Aristide Mugabe scored 27 points; Sedar Sagamba had 19 points out of 82 while Amani D. of UGB has 19 points out of 66.

The other tightly competitive game saw IPRC-Kigali losing to APR basketball club by 3 points in the game that ended 81-84. Bruno Nyamwasa of IPRC-Kigali was the top scorer after scoring 25 points out of 81 points.