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The NEST pay day awaits softball sides

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Stage set: Final preparations before yesterday’s start of the softball tournament at the National Diamond
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A relatively good pay day awaits teams that will do battle in the National Easter Softball Tournament (NEST) at the National Diamond with prize money at P362,000.

The men and women's champions will bank P45, 000 in a tournament that kicked off yesterday with the final set for Sunday. Tournament organiser, Petrus Sebina, told Mmegi Sport that the idea is to support a sport that is faced with challenges, particularly following the cancellation of school sport in government schools.

He noted that the Botswana Softball Association (BSA) league has been running without a sponsor for a long time.

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