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Heavyweights overpowered, leave national games hurting

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Action between Upper Hill and Laiser Hill in boys' rugby sevens in Term One games. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

Times are changing and so is the dominance of the Brookside Term One games, if the just concluded 2019 edition held in Mombasa is anything to go by. 

Of the 2018 national champions, only three remained standing as five failed to successfully defend their titles.

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