The Makeni Basketballers on Saturday, 5th November 2022 presented the first-ever 3×3 female series which is on the backdrop of developing female basketball in Makeni and the region.

Head Coach Kandeh Saio Sesay fondly known as Master Pee expressed delight in seeing the vision of promoting female basketball and challenged the Region and the Sierra Leone Basketball Federation to see the need in giving attention to this trajectory and the private sector to invest in Basketball.

He further encouraged other ladies to choose basketball as a career path and noted this is a start “it’s a vision the senior ballers and I discussed and today we have a successful maiden edition of 3×3 Female Basketball series, for a start, we divide the ladies into two teams and label them Team Black and Team White, and it plays as a series every Saturday, at the end of the month the team with the highest points pronounce champions with a cash prize, but as time goes on, we will increase as we get more ladies into the game” he noted.

However, Team White won by 20 points to 16 points against Team Black. The star performer of the game, Rahimeh Kanu from the winning side stole the show with some skills and long-range points with a total of ten (10) points and was named the MVP of the game, Fatmata M. Tarawalie from team Black shows her strength and gets whooping rebounds of ten (10)