Alex Njue @PeopleSport11
KCB put up a hard unbeaten run at the Bull Ring to clinch the inaugural Kakamega Sevens, beating Menengai Cream Homeboyz 21-12 for the title yesterday.
Kenya international Vincent Onyala starred in the Cup finals to conclude his individual titles raid to bag all three awards for his immense contribution for the bankers’ campaign.
Commenting on their perfect start, KCB head coach Dennis Mwanja lauded his team’s efforts and his technical bench input for the results.
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“Coming in here we had set out to improve from last season because the last time we won was four years back. Last season we kept on finishing third but this year we decided as a team to be the shadow of our 15s in terms of good results and we returned to winning ways.
Kakamega is a familiar place and a good hunting grounds for us, we won the 2019 Kenya Cup here and we came in confident we will put up a good show,” said KCB head coach Dennis Mwamba.
Despite the cup finals loss, Homeboyz coach Simon Odongo still took notes of their positives and shifts focus to Kabeberi Sevens leg slated for this weekend at the Kinoru Stadium in Meru County.
“It was to be a tough cup final especially playing against KCB with the quality of players they have but we had a lot of improvements in terms of how we played. KCB is going to be one of the opponents to beat and in Meru we are going for all wins,” said Odongo.
Three converted tries is all the bankers needed to beat last season defending champion who managed to score two tries and a conversion.
The most valuable player-cum the top points and top tries scorer Vincent Onyala opened the scorecard with a centre post try in the second minute of the game and his effort was complemented by their new signing Levy Amunga who converted all the tries.
Homeboyz winger Collins Shikoli levelled the matter three minutes later for a 7-7 stalemate at half time.
Former Deejay Johnstone Olindi proved his worth when he came off a sin bin to score at the restart to extend their lead to 14-7.
Kenya international Isaac Njoroge scored the last try for KCB while Homeboyz centre Brian Juma scored a corner try in the last play of the match to end it 12-21. Meanwhile Stanbic Mwamba finished third after beating Naturist 24-0.
