{"id":5314,"date":"2026-11-14T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2026-11-14T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T08:53:35","slug":"police-vc-complete-double-over-apr-in-rwanda-volleyball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/police-vc-complete-double-over-apr-in-rwanda-volleyball-league\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Police VC complete double over APR in Rwanda volleyball league"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/684b6aa1-4d29-4bcc-9cde-e06404b0ea08-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/684b6aa1-4d29-4bcc-9cde-e06404b0ea08-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/684b6aa1-4d29-4bcc-9cde-e06404b0ea08-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/684b6aa1-4d29-4bcc-9cde-e06404b0ea08-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/684b6aa1-4d29-4bcc-9cde-e06404b0ea08-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/684b6aa1-4d29-4bcc-9cde-e06404b0ea08-1536x1536-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/684b6aa1-4d29-4bcc-9cde-e06404b0ea08-2048x2048-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police Volleyball Club delivered a strong statement in Rwanda\u2019s national volleyball league on Friday, defeating APR in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions at a packed Petit Stade in Remera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police\u2019s men won 3-1 against APR VC, while the women\u2019s team also secured a 3-1 victory over APR WVC, making it a difficult evening for the military-backed club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The matches were played on November 13 as the men\u2019s competition entered its fifth round and the women\u2019s league reached its third round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The men\u2019s encounter was particularly significant as the two sides had previously met at the Kirehe Open pre-season tournament, where APR came from two sets down to beat Police 3-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/0072462b-51ef-4307-a78b-e687ec3028b2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/0072462b-51ef-4307-a78b-e687ec3028b2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/0072462b-51ef-4307-a78b-e687ec3028b2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/0072462b-51ef-4307-a78b-e687ec3028b2-767x511.jpg 767w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/0072462b-51ef-4307-a78b-e687ec3028b2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/0072462b-51ef-4307-a78b-e687ec3028b2-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday\u2019s result therefore gave Police a measure of revenge and strengthened its position in the league standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police WVC also moved to the top of the women\u2019s table after the victory, taking its points tally to nine from three matches. APR WVC remained second with six points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the men\u2019s competition, Police VC climbed to first place with 13 points, two ahead of APR VC, which remained on 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere, REG VC defeated Rwanda Polytechnic Ngoma College 3-0, taking its points tally to 10 and moving into third place in the men\u2019s standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The league programme continued on Saturday, November 14, with four matches scheduled across the two competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the women\u2019s league, RRA were due to face Kepler, while RP Huye were scheduled to meet Ruhango.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The men\u2019s fixtures included EAUR against KVC and Gisagara VC against Kirehe VC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Volleyball Club delivered a strong statement in Rwanda\u2019s national volleyball league on Friday, defeating APR in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,27,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current_affairs","category-national","category-sports","category-top_stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5317,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions\/5317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}