Students shine

By Oscar Pilipili
Two-time winners Strathmore University intensified their campaign to reclaim the title they surrendered to Kenya Police last season with a valuable 1-0 victory over Karate Axiom.

The students achieved the feat in a tight hockey premier league tie at the City Park Stadium in Nairobi.

Allan Iningu scored the goal that handed the university students three points in the 37th minute.
Strathmore are now at par with leaders Nairobi Simba Union on 12 points, but the latter are placed first in the league table standings on better goal aggregate.

Nairobi Simba who have played one more match than Strathmore did not play any match at the weekend.

Top action was witnessed in the competitive men’s National League where a massive 25 goals were recorded in five matches, an average of five per match on two days.

Nakuru trounced hapless Thika Rovers 4-0 in an entertaining match to bag maximum points and assume men’s National League leadership.

Ali Musa notched a double for Nakuru while Harminder Singh and Kenneth Alumasa contributed a goal each for Nakuru.

Nakuru are now perched at the top of the second tier league with 14 points out of the possible 18.
National Youth Service were taught hockey lesson the hard way after they succumbed to humiliating 13-1 defeat in the hands of experienced Parklands Sports Club in another men’s National League tie on Sunday.

It was a walk in the park for Parklands as they scored four goals in the first half and burst with nine more in the next 37 minutes to achieve the highest number of goals scored in a match this season.

Amritpal Suri (36th, 55th, 61st) and Owen Oduor (48th, 52nd, 67th) each registered hattricks. Allan Odongo (14th, 30th) and Bernard Mita (32nd, 51st) contributed a brace each while Frankline Koyondo (39th), Farhat Singh (64th) and Felix Otieno (70th) came out of the match with a goal each.

The victory enabled Parklands to dethrone Multimedia from second slot that they now occupy with 13 points.

Kimathi University had a successful campaign in Nairobi after they beat Mount Kenya University 2-0.