Kenya: Kamusinga Hit Alliance As Champs Kerugoya Are Held

Nairobi Star (Nairobi)

Hilton Otenyo

13 April 2011

EIGHT-time national hockey champions Friends School Kamusinga started their campaign to recapture the title after beating Alliance Boys 2-1 as the Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association (KSSSA) Term One Games got underway.

Kamusinga scored the opener in the 18th minute through Constant Warura while Alex Mango equalised for Alliance nine minute later when he fired home from a short corner. Kamusinga piled pressure on their opponents and with barely a minute to half time, Rodgers Simiyu slammed in the winner after being put through by Warura. Last year’s winners Mang’u High School are not present to defend the title after losing to Alliance at the provincial level.

In another match played at the Kakamega High School, East and Central Africa schools Hockey champions St. Anthony of Rift Valley won their opening match 1-0 against Nairobi School. St. Anthony relinquished the national Hockey title to Mang’u last year. Kamusinga confront St. Anthony while Nairobi School take on Alliance today.

In girls’ hockey, defending champions Kerugoya faltered in the first match against debutantes Butere after settling to a goal less draw at the same venue. While Kerugoya, also the East and Central Africa schools champions, were all out to prove their supremacy, Butere, appearing for the first time at the nationals since 2982 struggled to sent signals that they are not here by mistake.

Kerugoya, who won the title for the first time last year in 29 years, displayed a well coordinated game but failed to convert their moves in goals, owing to tough defence barricaded by the debutants Butere. In another debut match, Kapkolei Rapogi from Nyanza beat fellow newcomers St. Barnabas 2-0 in another entertaining encounter at the same venue.

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