Kenya miss out on African Games spot
Kenya's Felmas Koranga pose with the best rebounder award which she scooped at the Fiba Africa Zone Five African Games qualifiers at Lugogo Indoor courts, Uganda on July 1, 2019. Koranga averaged 18 rebounds and 22 points per game to emerge Kenya's top performer at the games. PHOTO | PHILIP ONYANGO |
What you need to know:
- Reen Awad managed 16 points to lead the Egyptians, whose other scorers were Raneem Elgedawy and Menatalia Awad, who had 13 points each.
- "We just played badly and did not in anyway deserve to win. None of my players had the psyche for the game allowing Egypt, who were more hungry for the win to carry the day," Kenya's head coach, Ronnie Owino said after the match.
IN KAMPALA, UGANDA
Kenya women; basketball team qualified the Fiba Afro basket Championships set for Senegal in August despite losing 72-90 to Egypt in the finals of the African Games qualifiers which concluded here at the Lugogo Indoor courts on Monday.
This is after Fiba Africa gave a wild card to Zone Five due to its competitiveness allowing the Zone to present two teams at the African championships final tour.
Kenya will, however, miss out of the African games in Morocco, where Zone Five will be represented by Egypt.
It was not a surprising result given that Egypt, the only unbeaten side in this entire championships so far, had beaten the Kenyan 86-82 in the opening match.
It was a bad day in office for the Kenyans, who failed to click in all the four quarters as the marauding Pharaohs took control from the tip off leading 22-18 in the first quarter, 44-33 at the break and 72-63 at the end of the third taking the game beyond reach of Kenyans.
Betty Kananu had a game high 20 points to lead the scores, while Vilma Achieng and Felmas Adhiambo had 23 and 12 points respectively for the Kenya.
Reen Awad managed 16 points to lead the Egyptians, whose other scorers were Raneem Elgedawy and Menatalia Awad, who had 13 points each.
"We just played badly and did not in anyway deserve to win. None of my players had the psyche for the game allowing Egypt, who were more hungry for the win to carry the day," Kenya's head coach, Ronnie Owino said after the match.
