Basketball tourney promises to set Seshego courts alight
The organisers of the tournament are currently mapping out the final fixture programme, with the grand finale of this three-day tourney scheduled for this weekend.
POLOKWANE – The second edition of the Seshego Sonics Tournament ambles into action this weekend from Friday to Sunday at the Seshego basketball courts seeking, again, to settle the argument about the identity of the province’s top club.
The organisers of the tournament are currently mapping out the final fixture programme, with the grand finale of this three-day tourney scheduled for this weekend.
The more immediate ambition of the competing clubs will be to win some form of silverware over the next exhilarating days of action-packed basketball, but the league is also the training college for new talent which the province hopes to parade at national team level in major tournaments.
The focus will be starkly on several young stars who can be considered hot favourites to play for the province on the greatest stages of all. The hosts, Sonics, who are the defending champions of this tournament, have threatened to unleash their full brunt of assault on their visitors when they host the touring parties on the Day of Reconciliation.
The tournament was at some stage put on a moratorium for a few years and this weekend’s event is set to reignite the basketball flames. A total of eight teams have already confirmed their participation in this tournament.
They are Sonics, Young Tigers, a team comprising the bulk of erstwhile Sonics juniors, Mahwelereng Vampires, Polokwane Hawks, Pretoria Mountaineers, Malamulele Chill Shooters, Solomondale Pacers, and Bela Bela Vikings.
Ahead of this competition, Sonics’ point guard and skipper, Peter Seema, is brimming with confidence that they will successfully defend their crown.
Although Sonics go to this tournament with no full-time head coach, Seema says they will still give a good account of themselves.
He says even though they have no permanent mentor, they complement each other very well as they have been together for many years.
The fulcrum of Sonics includes shooting/point guard Jimmy Molonyama, sturdy guard Sello Rapudi, power forward Lloyd Morudu, power forward Matsobane Mboweni, the pair of shooting guards of Oscar Mabotja and Diketso Mashile and another power forward in Mojalefa Maponya. Another team to watch at this tournament will be Young Tigers.
The team, like their seniors, have been together since childhood. Their coach, Simon Khoza has played with the rest of the Sonics men and he knows all their tactics going into battle. He will pin his faith of his understudies in master blaster David Moloto and nimble-guard Kgopotso Rachidi who are expected to provide the catalyst for comprehensive match-winning exploits.
