Kenyan teams have landed in tough pools but must up their game in Rwanda to clinch the regional football title which has eluded them for years.
National Secondary School Games champions St Anthony’s Boys Kitale will face fellow Kenyan side Shanderema in their group at the East Africa School Games while beaten finalists Dagoretti High School have a tough job having been pulled together with perenial winners St Mary’s Kitenge of Uganda.
The regional school games set to kick off in Huye, Rwanda from August 16-17, are set to witness intense rivalry with Kenyan sides out to reclaim lost regional glory.
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However, it will not be easy with most eyes on St Anthony’s, who beat Dagoretti 2-0 in the national boys’ final at Bukhungu Stadium on Saturday.
The Solidarity Boys are in Pool A which also has Shanderema, who finished third at the national games, Uganda’s beaten finalists St Henry's College, Kitovu, and the country’s third side Amus College School while Tanzania national champions Kalangalala and Rwanda’s national runners-ups CGFK complete the group.
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Pool B has Kenya’s Dogoretti, Ugandan champions St Mary's Kitende, the country’s fourth-placed team Kibuli SS while Rwanda’s national winners Ecose Musambira and Tanzanian runners-ups Kiwira Coal Mine making the group.
In the girls’ category, Kenyan champions Butere Girls are in Pool A, alongside the country’s third team Madira, as well as Rwanda’s national champions GS Gatizo, Uganda’s St Noa Girls and Kawempe Muslim, who finished second and third, as well as Tanzania runners-ups Ziba.
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Pool B comprises Kenya’s beaten national finalists Wiyeta, Ugandan champions Amus College School as well as Sacred Heart Gulu, who were fourth in their national games, Tanzanian champions Fountain Gate and Rwanda’s second-placed team APAER.
Kenyan sides came close to ending the country’s title drought last year when Highway Secondary School reached the final but lost 2-0 to Uganda’s Kibuli while Wiyeta went down 2-1 to Noah Girls of Uganda in the final played in Arusha, Tanzania.
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ST. Noa Girls is the defending champion of the title after beating Kenya’s Wiyeta Girls 2-1 in the final in Tanzania last year.
St Mary’s Kitende are the record boys’ champions, having won the title 12 times, while Kenya’s Archbishop Njenga have four crowns, the most by a girls’ side.
St Anthony’s last won the East Africa title in 2002 while Wiyeta’s last regional crown came in 2017.