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Mbugua wins Bondo national championship

Gitonga Nderitu (left) and Nicholas Mbugua in past action at the Coast Open Scrabble championships. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

East Africa seed 10 Nicholas Mbugua beat a field of top stars to win the eighth national scrabble championship over the weekend, at Pride Hotel, in Bondo.

Mbugua, who plays for Stima Scrabble Club, defeated Ugandan seed one Phillip Edwin-Mugisha 480-357 in the penultimate match to win his first national scrabble title this year with two matches to spare.

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