{"id":425081,"date":"2011-05-16T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/16\/malawi-win-cosana-tournament\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:19:09","slug":"malawi-win-cosana-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/malawi-win-cosana-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Win Cosana Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"24.7144315861\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/namibian180.jpg\" alt=\"The Namibian (Windhoek)\" title=\"Visit The Namibian (Windhoek)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Malawi won the U\/21 Netball Championship of the Confederation of Southern Africa Netball Associations (Cosana) yesterday after beating South Africa 36-26 in the final at the Wanderers Netball Courts in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p>The Malawians ended the first quarter only three points up, and continued to rally to increase the gap ending the first half 17-13 ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Following crucial turnovers by Malawi in the third quarter, the enterprising South Africans closed the gap and led the match for the first time at 19-18 midway through the quarter. However, they did not manage to do much with their advantage as the Malawians pulled away again to end the third quarter 25-23 ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by their bench who were urging them on, Malawi then continued on the attack, scoring 11 goals in the final quarter while restricting the South African to only three goals. The goals brought the final score to 36-26 for the Malawians whose senior team are the reigning African champions.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the loss, South Africa finished second, while Botswana who managed two wins against Namibia finished third.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts Namibia were last as they were the only team to finish without a win.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105160850.html\" title=\"Malawi Win Cosana Tournament\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malawi Win Cosana Tournament<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 13 May 2011 Malawi won the U\/21 Netball Championship of the Confederation of Southern Africa Netball Associations (Cosana) yesterday after beating South Africa 36-26 in the final at the Wanderers Netball Courts in Windhoek. The Malawians ended the first quarter only three points up, and continued to rally to increase the gap ending the first half 17-13 ahead. Following crucial turnovers by Malawi in the third quarter, the enterprising South Africans closed the gap and led the match for the first time at 19-18 midway through the quarter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malawi Win Cosana Tournament - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/16\/malawi-win-cosana-tournament\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Malawi Win Cosana Tournament - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"13 May 2011 Malawi won the U\/21 Netball Championship of the Confederation of Southern Africa Netball Associations (Cosana) yesterday after beating South Africa 36-26 in the final at the Wanderers Netball Courts in Windhoek. 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