these games are played every year in order to honor the heroes of rwanda and officially start the year of the handball game attended by six mens teams and two womens teams police handball won the trophy after defeating ecole secondary de kigoma 29 to 21 in the final game ecole secondaire de kigoma is a new team in the handball league but it surprised many when it reached the final game and police hc won it with difficulty kigoma secondary school in ruhango is made up mostly of former players from gs saint joseph of nyamasheke which was in the same group as the university of rwanda and apr which was the one that advanced to the finals the other group was made up of police gs de la salle and kie this trophy was won by apr last year but this year they did not make it to the finals in the womens category apapeki cyuru took the trophy after defeating kie who won it last year in two matches between the two teams due to the fact that only two teams participated in the womens team they had to play the first game and the second game and apepaki won both games in the first game that took place on saturday apapeki scored 22 goals out of 18 and the team scored 16 goals out of 11 police hc in men and apepeki cyuru in women often monopolized the cups played in rwanda last year the police won the championship they won the rwandan cup and now they are called heroes in 2011 for the first time in its history police hc represented rwanda in dares salaam tanzania in the team games that became the first at home among the teams in the central and east african region and won the position of four it is expected that this years handball season will start in the next two weeks theoneste i am blessed