Miracle Eaglets big trio powers them past UPDF

Miracle’s big 3 of Mariam Namukwaya, Brenda Alyano and Akello Winnifred scored 70%+ of the team’s points in their win against UPDF Lady Tomahawks.

April 26, 2025

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The Miracle Eaglets trio of Brenda Alyano, Mariam Namukwaya and Akello Winnifred once again came up big as they defeated the UPDF Lady Tomahawks 58-52 on Friday 25th.

The 3 scored more than 70% of the team’s points and managed to help the Eaglets hold off a UPDF Lady Tomahawks who was on the verge of making a comeback.

Ahead of this game, Miracle had fallen to the Magic Stormers, 65-62, and didn not want to register back-to-back defeats.

The Lady Tomahawks faced a humbling 102-63 defeat in their previous game and surely needed a positive result to try boost their morale.

However, they did not play like a team that wanted to win in the first half.

They scored a combined 14 points in the first half, and to emphasize how unserious they looked, they missed 8 consecutive free throws.

Both teams did not have rhe best of outing in the first half as there was a total of 32 turnovers from both teams.

However, only 8 points from turnovers were scored by both teams the entire first half.

By halftime, Miracle Eaglets led the game 27-14 and were on their way to victory.

Miracle scored just 2 points in the first 6 minutes of the third quarter to UPDF’s 10 and the lead was cut to 5.

They however scored 11 in the final 4 to maintain a 7-point lead coming into the fourth quarter.

All the momentum was with the UPDF Lady Tomahawks in the fourth quarter.

They cane within 2 points twice but couldn’t tie the game or even take the lead.

Dorah Nakijjoba scored valuable points for the army-side, 9 in total, in the fourth quarter but this wasn’t enough.