Ikipe ya RSSB Tigers BBC ihagarariye u Rwanda yanditse amateka muri Basketball Nyafurika nyuma yo kwegukana igikombe cya Basketball Africa League (BAL) 2026, itsinze Petro de Luanda yo muri Angola amanota 90-89 ku mukino wa nyuma wabereye muri BK Arena kuri iki Cyumweru.
Uyu mukino wari witabiriwe n'abarimo Perezida wa Repubulika y'u Rwanda, Paul Kagame, wabereye imbere y'abafana benshi bari buzuye BK Arena bashyigikiye ikipe yabo kugeza ku munota wa nyuma.
Petro de Luanda yatangiye umukino yihagazeho cyane, ndetse ibasha gushyiramo amanota 17 yikurikiranya RSSB Tigers itarabona inota na rimwe.
Nyuma y'intangiriro itoroshye, ikipe yari ihagarariye u Rwanda yagarutse mu mukino buhoro buhoro ibifashijwemo n'abakinnyi barimo Craig Randall II, Axel Mpoyo na Dieudonne Ndayisaba Ndizeye.
Agace ka mbere karangiye Petro de Luanda iyoboye amanota 27-16, ariko RSSB Tigers yagaragaje impinduka zikomeye mu gace ka kabiri, aho yatsindaga cyane amanota atatu. Igice cya mbere cy'umukino cyarangiye iyoboye n'amanota 42 kuri 37.
Mu gace ka gatatu, amakipe yombi yakomeje guhangana bikomeye, ariko RSSB Tigers ikomeza kuguma imbere n'amanota 61 kuri 59. Mu gace ka nyuma, Petro de Luanda yongeye gufata umwanya wa mbere mu mukino, gusa RSSB Tigers ntiyacitse intege.
Mu minota ya nyuma y'umukino, Craig Randall II yongeye kwigaragaza atsinda amanota y'ingenzi yafashije ikipe ye gusubirana ubuyobozi bw'umukino no kuwusoza itsinze ku manota 90 kuri 89, ihita yegukana igikombe cya BAL 2026.
Craig Randall II yabaye intwari y'uyu mukino nyuma yo gutsinda amanota 33, anatorwa nk'Umukinnyi Mwiza w'Irushanwa (MVP) rya BAL 2026. Yarushije abandi bari bahatanye harimo mugenzi we Mangok Mathiang ndetse n'abakinnyi ba Petro de Luanda, Childe Dundao na Pedro Gakou.
Si ibyo gusa kuko umutoza wa RSSB Tigers, Henry Denis Mwinuka, nawe yahembwe nk'Umutoza Mwiza w'Umwaka nyuma yo gufasha iyi kipe kugera kuri aya mateka akomeye.
RSSB Tigers yari yageze ku mukino wa nyuma isezereye Al Ahly yo mu Misiri muri 1/2, mu gihe Petro de Luanda yari yasezereye Al Ahly yo muri Libya.
