{"id":202879,"date":"2025-07-20T21:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ends-fiba-u16-campaign-with-back-to-back-wins-over-benin\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:24:49","slug":"liberia-ends-fiba-u16-campaign-with-back-to-back-wins-over-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ends-fiba-u16-campaign-with-back-to-back-wins-over-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Ends Fiba U16 Campaign With Back-to-Back Wins Over Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Liberia closed its campaign in the FIBA Africa Zone 3 U16 Boys and Girls AfroBasket Qualifiers on a high note Wednesday, securing consecutive victories over Benin at the Samuel Kanyon Doe (SKD) Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The U16 girls&#8217; team clinched its first and only win of the tournament, edging Benin 47-44 in a tightly contested matchup. The result provided a much-needed morale boost for the squad, which finished with a 1-3 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">On the boys&#8217; side, Liberia delivered a dominant performance, routing Benin&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180304.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia closed its campaign in the FIBA Africa Zone 3 U16 Boys and Girls AfroBasket Qualifiers on a high note Wednesday, securing consecutive victories over Benin at the Samuel Kanyon Doe (SKD) Gymnasium. The U16 girls&#8217; team clinched its first and only win of the tournament, edging Benin 47-44 in a tightly contested matchup. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,28644,4737,4302,7933,10133,4712,1107,257,254,10115,6552],"class_list":["post-202879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backtoback","tag-benin","tag-campaign","tag-ends","tag-fiba","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u16","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}