{"id":162743,"date":"2015-10-27T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=162743"},"modified":"2015-10-27T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:29:30","slug":"ghana-beats-botswana-27-0-at-african-hockey-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/ghana-beats-botswana-27-0-at-african-hockey-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana beats Botswana 27-0 at African Hockey Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana\u2019s male hockey team routed Botswana 27-0 on Monday in the ongoing African Hockey Championships in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tournament is serving as the qualifiers for the hockey tournament in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The match against Bostwana was the second for the team in the tournament after beating Namibia 5-0 with goals from Johnny Botsio (2), Michael Baiden, Nsalbini Salya and Elikem Akaba.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana started scoring against Botswana as early as the 2nd minute through Moses Isaac and he went on to score two other times in the match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sam Benedict and Nsalbini Salya also scored three times on the day. But the star of the show was Johnny Botsio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He scored eight goals on the day to give Ghana the huge win. The male team plays against South Africa on Tuesday in their third pool match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ImageGen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162744 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ImageGen.jpg\" alt=\"ImageGen\" width=\"581\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ImageGen.jpg 581w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ImageGen-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The female team has also been in good form at the tournament after beating Nigeria (2-1), Namibia (1-0) and Zimbabwe (4-0).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are in action against Tanzania on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana (With additional information from FIH)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s male hockey team routed Botswana 27-0 on Monday in the ongoing African Hockey Championships in South Africa. 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