The Standard ­ Tuesday
Date: 21.02.2017
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Schools basketball game called off due to tension
BY ERNEST NDUNDA
A secondary school basketball game had to be
called off in Matuga sub­country, in Kwale County,
as students from two fierce rivals schools almost
came to blows over the weekend.
The games hosted at Kaya Tiwi School started
well on day one, but threatened to boil over when
the hosts' boys basketball team came up against
Shimba Hills.
Kwale County games set for next month by the vir­
tue of being finalists, a way must be found to have
the final played to get a winner," Changawa said.
"Both principals of the involved schools will
agree amicably on when the final should be played,"
Changawa said.
Also not played was the girls basketball match
between Shimba Hills and Piat Academy to decide
the second team to join champions Kaya Tiwi
School for the county games.
Word went round that a student from Kaya Tiwi
The winner of the Shimba Hills and Piat Acade­
had been injured during a drama festival, running
concurrently with the school games.
It was not immediately clear how the student
was injured, but the information caused tension in
my would have decided the second­placed team
and the organisers have to go back to the drawing
the school.
board and order for a playoff to decide the team to
accompany Kaya Tiwi School.
In early games that went uninterrupted, Matuga
Girls won all their hockey matches to successfully
Quick intervention of the sub­country sports
secretary, Shungu Changawa and teachers from
both schools, who unanimously agreed to suspend
retain the title after beating Shimba Hills and Waa
Girls with an identical 2­0 before holding Kwale
the fixture so as to defuse the tension, saved the
Girls to a barren draw.
day.
Changawa said they averted a possible violence
between the two schools by calling off the final after
both teams defeated their opponents in the semi­fi­
nals to sail through to the final.
"Although both teams have qualified for the
went ahead to beat Kwale High and Shimba Hills
1 ­0 respectively.
Kwale High School won the boys rugby tittle
with nine points. Other disciplines competed for
were decathlon and heptathlon.
In boys hockey, Waa hit Kwale Seminary 5­0 and
Emmauel Mghanga (left) of Kaya Tiwi Secondary
School in action against Micheal Makini of
Mazeras Boys last year, [photo: file]
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