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Eastern region showdown begins

Ibrahim Shambi, then of Kathungi High School, in a training session. [Jonah Onyango]

A battle to succeed Kathungi as Eastern Region Secondary Schools boys under 19 football champions begins today as this year’s regional Term Two Games begin in Makueni.

Makueni Boys and Unoa Grounds will be battlefields as 16 sides face off in a quest for regional glory and a ticket to next month’s Kenya Secondary Schools Sports Association National Term Two games in Kisumu. After seven years of Kathungi reign, new champions will be crowned in the region. Kathungi were unrivalled ruling Eastern since 2012 but their dominance came to a sudden end after they fell to Katulani in the preliminaries at the Sub-County level.

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