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Scrabble: Kenya finishes third in Africa at World Championships

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Kenya's Allan Oyende (right) in action against World Champion Nigel Richards in Goa, India during the World Scrabble Championships. [Washington Onyango, Standard]

Kenya seed one Allan Oyende won 20 matches out of 32 to lead the national scrabble team in registering their best finish in a decade where Kenya was ranked third in Africa at the World English-Language Scrabble Players Association Championship (WESPAC) in Goa, India.

Oyende, fresh from winning the Nairobi Scrabble Championship, defeated Nigeria's Emmanuel Umujose 631-404 and Jesse Day of United States three times in successive and lead the world standings over the weekend.

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