Shefa brings the gold back home at the Tafea 2019 Provincial Games

Lenakel was more busy than ever with the hosting of the Tafea 2019 Provincial Games at Laminu Stadium last week (May 5th-11th). 12 sports disciplines featured in the competition's program, and so was 5x5 basketball. Provincial teams such as Tafea, Sanma, Shefa, Malampa and the 2 Port-Vila and Luganville municipals' squad entered the competition (but Sanma's female's team). Port-Vila came strong in their pools game against Shefa (47-31) to secure the first place of its pool on the men's side, and so was Sanma's team after its tough win to Malampa (51-43). The runner up games between Shefa & Luganville (20-0 and Malampa & Tafea (47-37) leaded to the semi-finals the day after. Shefa cruised team Sanma (58-38), and Port-Vila showed no mercy to Malampa on the other side (53-18) to secure a remake of the pool's game vs Shefa. And what a game. Physical, with some great defensive actions from both side. The 2 teams gave their best to that game and showed that they would play it easy to bring the gold back home. After a tied first-half, Shefa actually took the advantage in the 3rd quarter, to secure the final win (32-23). The Bronze medal went to Sanma due to Malampa's forfeit for the bronze medal final.
Courtesy of: vanuatubasketball.com