Basketball in Africa

USIU Flames the runners up of the 2012 KBF Premier League in the ladies category had an easy outing on Sunday afternoon after they beat fellow university students Kenyatta University Oryx 67-27 at the Nyayo gymnasium.
Flames won all the quarters of the match to hand Oryx their second defeat of the weekend after they had lost out to Storms 58-37 on Saturday. In Sunday’s match 2012’s Most Valuable Player Hilda Indasi had 10 points to her name while her team mate Ghyslaine Uwimana led the scoring charts for USIU with 12 points.
In the first quarter USIU kicked off the match with a resounding 18-6 win a result they registered once more in the 2^nd quarter which ended 18-2 to further Oryx’s misery. This put the half time scores at 36-8 in favor of USIU.
The 3^rd and 4^th quarter saw a similar situation just as the first half of the match where Flames dominated their opponents with a 17-9 win in the 3^rd and then sealed of the game with a close 14-10 win in the last quarter. Betty Kananu was KU’s top point scorer with 15 points the highest in the clash.
In the matches played in the men’s category Mennonites were able to see off UoN Terrorists with a 84-53 win. The first half of the match saw both teams settle for a 31-31 draw after Mennonites took charge in the 1^st quarter with 14 points against Terrorists 9 points but the students managed to settle in the 2^nd quarter which they won 22-17.
The 3^rd quarter saw Mennonites push the pedal and they were a handful for the university students when they sunk in 25 points against Terrorists 15 points. In the last quarter Terror could not simply keep up with their opponents and lost getting only 7 points while Mennonites made sure they secure a win with 28 points.
Kushen Diliwe and Collins Ochieng both had 17 points for Mennonites while Felix Odhiambo had 22 points to his name. Hillary Kubai was Terrorists top point scorer with 22 points also followed by Frank Manyala who had 14 points.

KENYA BASKETBALL LEAGUE SUN 26THRESULTS 
K.A.A.  26/78               VS             UMOJA   36/66
13/13/23/29                                    16/20/11/19
22 pts  Evans Ochieng                    31 pts  Erick Reuben
12 pts  Alphas Muema                    11 pts  Rodgers Ombati

EQUITY  27/56          VS           UPPERHILL  20/47
15/12/07/22                                 11/09/15/12
13 pts George Omena                19 pts  Joseph Ongoro
10 pts  Ian Wache
K.C.A.-U   16/42         VS            K.U. PIRATES  20/48
08/08/14/12                                 12/08/13/15
10 pts  Erick Wafula                      10 pts  Collins Wekesa
10 pts  Jonah Lando
U.S.I.U. FLAMES 36/67    VS      K.U.ORYX   08/27
18/18/17/14                                 06/02/09/10
12 pts  Ghyslaine Uwimana           15 pts  Betty Kananu
10 pts  Hilda Indasi
10 pts  Nancy Atieno
MENNONITES  31/84      VS       TERROR   31/53
14/17/25/28                                   09/22/15/07
22 pts  Felix Odhiambo                   22 pts  Hillary Kubai
17 pts  Kushen Diliwe                     14 pts  Frank Manyala
17 pts  Collins Ochieng
BLAZERS   35/62            VS          NKR CLUB  30/80
11/24/15/12                                    15/15/30/20
14 pts  Abel Nson                             29 pts  George Kkarie
13 pts  Chris Moseti                         22 pts  James Okerio