Traylor’s Record & REG Revival | FIBA Basketball 2025

CAIRO (Egypt) – Rwanda Energy Group (REG) returns to the path of success, inflicting Friend’s Basketball Association (FBA) of Ivory Coast with its third defeat in this WBLA 2025.

The team led by Pape Malick came from afar, after a heavy 88-60 defeat against Al Ahly Sporting Club, vice-champion and host of the tournament. As in their inaugural victory 67-64 against Sporting Clube de Luanda, they still had to digest a difficult start before taking control to win 81-53.

Kayana Traylor and Kristina King, REG’s true shields, responded, one guiding the attack, the other locking down the defense, to lead the Rwandan champions to a 2-1 record in Group A.

American guard Traylor was unstoppable: seven winning shots converted on twelve attempts, four baskets in the paint, a flawless shot, to sign more than a third of her team’s points. With her 34 units, she achieved the best individual performance of the competition since the start of the tournament.

She completed her stats line with 3 interceptions, as many assists and two rebounds.

Sharing the effort with the same intensity, Kristina King had only six rebounds in the 67-64 victory against Sporting Clube de Luanda, then four against Al Ahly.

Against the Ivorians, she signed a double-double by scoring 19 points, including 17 obtained at 8/14 on shots, with only one missed attempt behind the arc, to finish with an evaluation of 32.

In the first quarter, the Rwandans held off FBA – who had overtaken them to fifth place last year – to win 15-13.

They then toughened their defense in the second quarter, winning 24-12, widening a 14-point gap which proved valuable when FBA reacted in the third, winning 21-17.

REG, however, dominated the last act, scoring four three-pointers in a scathing 25-7 which definitively sealed the match.

Looking back on the win, REG Promise guard Amukamara said: “We did a great job protecting the ball, but Kayana was really incredible. She carried us with her three-pointers.”

The Nigerian international and Olympian continued: “We forced them to lose possessions, which gave us more possessions in attack. In the third quarter, we perhaps lacked aggression, and that is a state of mind that we need to correct. Despite my late arrival, I integrated well and my match today showed that. The experience of AfroBasket gives us a real advantage: I know the habits of many players, and that changes a lot of things.”

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