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League| Weekend Wrap: Eagle Wings Edge out Queens as ICC stops Posta Eastern Queens’ winning ways were cut short by Eagle Wings, who edged them 66-61 in a tough Women’s encounter. Anastacia Njeri’s several three-pointers set the foundation for a solid Eagle Wings win from the start which destroyed Queens’ confidence. Eagle Wings and Sprite Storms now share 16 points each. KPA women moved to the third place with 17 points after a 66-26 win over regrouping USIU Flames.
In the men’s league, International Christian Centre (ICC)
widened their lead in the Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF) Premier
League by two points (22) after fighting hard to defeat Posta 76-62.
Philip Dinga and Paul Ojuoga scored 24 and 18 points respectively
for ICC, while Ben Oluoch and Desmond Owilly, who netted 15 and
11 points for Posta. The other games saw University of Nairobi win
54-49 over Lomboritz, as visiting Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) were
pushed to the limit before overcoming the United States International
University-USIU Tigers 86-84 to rest at the sixth place in the standings
with 18 points. The games continue this weekend at the Nyayo Gymnasium,
and the Division Two league at the Railways Club.
“I am not going to allow KPA to travel away for any match
now until I am satisfied that they have played enough home matches,
including the first leg home game against Eagle Wings which has
been pending for a while now,” she said. KBF secretary Vitalis
Gode said the federation will do all that is possible to ensure
that teams get fairness as far as the fixtures are concerned. But
he was quick to point out that it will not interfere with the fixtures,
which the team managers demanded to control during their standoff
with the federation early in the year. KCB team manager George Nyundo
had in a statement said most team were skipping the Mombasa fixtures
to minimise expenses after realising that they would be in the eight-team
playoff in a system set to be introduced this year. This was after
KPA head coach Anthony Ojukwu complained that teams were skipping
Mombasa fixtures, making KPA to travel several times for away matches,
which he said fatigued the players. Standings:
Men’s Premier League:
ICC 22 points, Strathmore University 22, KCB Lions 20, Co-op Bank
19, KPA 18, Posta 18, Lomboritz 16, Tigers of USIU-A 15, Terrorists
11
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Meanwhile,
The Kenya Ports Authority management has threatened to withdraw
the parastatal’s basketball teams from the national league
if teams continue to skip Mombasa for their basketball matches.
At the same time, KPA personnel manager Jane Kamau has threatened
to crack the whip on the KPA team managers who she said were lobbying
for their teams to play single fixtures in Nairobi, saying the corporation
was losing a lot of money through such deals. “I have been
quiet but I will now act on the basketball if it will mean withdrawing
the teams altogether,” Kamau, who called the Nation to react
on a story, said. She said KPA has a home ground and has a right
to play their home matches in Mombasa regardless of the format of
the playoffs and asked the team managers who are responsible for
the fixtures to act responsibly. “We never had this problem
of teams skipping the Mombasa fixtures before, when KBF [Kenya Basketball
Federation] was responsible for the fixtures. There must be a total
change of attitude from those arranging the fixtures, otherwise
they will bring the league to its knees,” a visibly angry
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