The Suba Lakers played in the Copa Coca Cola Tournament this weekend in Homa Bay. It was an under-17 year old tournament. The club took 17 of its primary school players to compete against mostly secondary school teams who had entered the tournament. In the first match, the Lakers thrashed Pedo 7 to 1 which helped us to advance to the semifinals in the knockout tournament. In the semfinals we managed two goals against Ogande Girls Secondary School.
On Sunday we prepared to face two former CGA students and their powerful Asumbi Girls Secondary School team. They have reached the Provencial Finals the past two years in the Nyanza Secondary School Championships and had all of their players returning from last year. Our young primary school girls fought valiantly, but wore down as the 2nd half dragged on. The defense stayed strong though and goalkeeper Adah Sharon made some great saves to preserve a 0-0 draw. To decide the winner the match went to penalty kicks.
We missed our 2nd kick and were down 2-1 with most of the girls losing hope. Asumbi had easily made their first two kicks, before Adah blocked the next two. When their fifth kick sailed wide of the goal our team erupted with joy and attacked our goalkeeper in a dogpile. Adah was then carried around the field in triumphant victory.
My high spirits were brought down quickly about 15 seconds after the celebration when I realized that my cell phone was gone. Some bystander had taken advantage of the mayhem to steal my phone from me. So we won the tournament, but I lost my nice phone and all my contacts.
Our team will be advancing to the next stage of the Copa Coca Cola Tournament in Kisii town in April.
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