Kenya: Beach Ball Teams Through to African Games

Nairobi Star (Nairobi)

Dun Okinyo

28 March 2011

Kenya men’s and women’s national beach volleyball teams qualified for the All African Games after winning the Zone Five qualification tournament in Uganda.

Three countries Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya participated in the tournament with Kenya and Uganda entering a men’s and women’s teams while Rwanda had only two women’s team.

The Rwandese men’s team did not honour the tie because its players were in the national team that was participating in the Zone 5 AAG qualification tournament in Kigali, Rwanda.

The Kenya women had two teams comprising Dorcas Ndasaba and Margaret Indakala in the first team and Ednah Rotich and Eunice Maiyo in the second team. The men’s teams comprised Patrick Owino with Evans Bera and Bernard Musumba pairing with Faustine Barasa.

In the women’s matches, Kenya won all their matches after beating Ugandan and Rwandese teams with an overall identical score of 4-0. The Kenya first team (Ndasaba and Indakala) beat Uganda 2 team (Namanda Jones with Agaba Jonnes) and Uganda team 1 (Bajije S with Aketch S) with an identical 2-0 set score (21-17; 21-13 and 21-18; 21-10 respectively). The team beat the Rwandese pairings of Hakozimile J and Nyiyenga C (Rwanda 1) and Uwineza E and Nigema J (Rwanda 2) with a similar margin (21-11; 21-17 and 21-19;21-14 respectively).

The Kenya 2 Women’s Team (Rotich and Maiyo) beat Uganda 1 and 2 teams with scores of 2-0 and 2-1 (21-18; 21-14 and 18-21; 21-15; 15-9).

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