Electric encounters. The quarter-finals of the Madagascar N1A basketball championships (women and men) are now known at the end of the draw made on Wednesday after the meeting between Sebam and Mb2all. The national gendarmerie basket club (GNBC), N1A 2019 champion will face the Madagascar Basket Ball To All (Mb2all) at 4 p.m. in the large hall of the Mahamasina Sports Palace.
On paper, the players of the national gendarmerie are largely favorites. After phase 2, GNBC occupies second place while their opponents of the day are in seventh position. To open the hostilities of the quarter-finals, at nine o’clock, the players of the omnisport club of the national police 2 Atsinanana will face the basketball players of Serasera Vakinankaratra.
At the end of the qualifiers, COSPN 2 is in third place while Serasera is in sixth position. The expected match of the entire Alaotra Mangoro region is the return to the court of the AS Fanalamanga team against the COSPN at 12 hours 30 minutes. On paper, the players of the national police omnisport club are largely favorites. They are classified first after the two phases while the players from the Alaotra Mangoro region are eighth.
What characterizes the AS Fanalamanga team is that it comes from a rural commune, Ambohibary. 90% of the players are from the region. The general manager Arlème Rabevahiny has brought new breaths to sports in general, basketball in particular in the Fanalamanga company.
The Fanalamanga company’s basketball executive committee headed by Rivosoloniaina Jean Claude Blandin, the general manager of the AS Fanalamanga team, explained that “we came from a minor league and we set the goal of achieving at least the quarter-final and to remain in the elite N1A. For today’s quarter-final match, we are here to defend the pride of the Alaotra Mangoro region, the pressure is on COSPN’s side and we will do our best to reach the semi-finals, ”he concludes. At 5:45 p.m., defending champion Ascut Atsinanana will talk to the soldiers of Cosfa. During the two phases, the Ascut had sawtooth results, the players of Atsinanana are in fourth position while Cosfa is in fifth position.
On the women’s side, on the outside, at nine o’clock, the players of Sbbc Boeny, second in the standings, will challenge the girls of Ascut Atsinanana (seventh) while at 10.45 minutes, the girls of MB2ALL (first in the standings) undefeated since the beginning of this phase 2, will be explained with the basketball players of Tamifa Amoron’i Mania, ranked eighth.
