#Legon2020: UG wins gold in men’s basketball

The Male Basketball team of the University of Ghana has won gold at the 26th edition of the Ghana Universities Sports Association Games.

This is a successful defense of the title they won two years ago.

The game, which begun on Friday, was halted after the occurrence of some incidents which were beyond the control of officials.

Upon deliberations between match officials and team coaches, it was decided that the game could not continue, and thus postponed.

The game resumed on Saturday at 2PM with the score at 51-47 in favour of UCC with 7:35seconds left on the clock. There was police presence at court to forestall any mishap.

UG battled back from the deficit to reduce the game to a point difference of 1 and eventually took the lead.

Guard Treasure Botchway’s two foul shots made it 66-63 for Team UG, winning them gold.

Team UG thus remains undefeated in this years competition.

Story by: Emmanuel Quartey and Reward Feehi Kpokli | UniversSports