Ugandan teams now playing for formality
Feb 09, 2011
KENYA’s strength and experience turned Uganda’s passionate resistance into a joke to register a thumping 68-32 win in the women’s category at the Zone Five All Nations Qualifier in Kigali yesterday.
By Charles Mutebi in Kigali
KENYA’s strength and experience turned Uganda’s passionate resistance into a joke to register a thumping 68-32 win in the women’s category at the Zone Five All Nations Qualifier in Kigali yesterday.
The talented Maureen Amoding dropped a team-high 12 points but her effort were much too small in the avalanche that was a ruthless Kenya.
The result ended what little hope Uganda had of clinching a top two finish that would have had them qualify for the continental championship.
Uganda had already lost to Burundi and still have to play hosts and unbeatable favourites Rwanda.
There was, of course, only faint hope of this young Uganda side claiming a ticket for the African championship but there was hope that it would offer a glimpse of their potential.
Not on yesterday’s performance.
After a valiant first half display in which Uganda scored 23 to Kenya’s 44, they collapsed in the third quarter, failing to score in the entire period.
It was as bad as a game can get.
The San Antonio Spurs are riding high on their gruelling “Rodeo Road Trip†as a 100-89 triumph over the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday gave the NBA’s top team their third straight win.
Spurs improved their NBA-best record and became the first team to begin a season 43-8 or better since the 1996-97 NBA champion Chicago Bulls, who stormed out of the gate with a 45-6 record.
KENYA’s strength and experience turned Uganda’s passionate resistance into a joke to register a thumping 68-32 win in the women’s category at the Zone Five All Nations Qualifier in Kigali yesterday.
The talented Maureen Amoding dropped a team-high 12 points but her effort were much too small in the avalanche that was a ruthless Kenya.
The result ended what little hope Uganda had of clinching a top two finish that would have had them qualify for the continental championship.
Uganda had already lost to Burundi and still have to play hosts and unbeatable favourites Rwanda.
There was, of course, only faint hope of this young Uganda side claiming a ticket for the African championship but there was hope that it would offer a glimpse of their potential.
Not on yesterday’s performance.
After a valiant first half display in which Uganda scored 23 to Kenya’s 44, they collapsed in the third quarter, failing to score in the entire period.
It was as bad as a game can get.
Spurs improved their NBA-best record and became the first team to begin a season 43-8 or better since the 1996-97 NBA champion Chicago Bulls, who stormed out of the gate with a 45-6 record.