Agoro Sare High School from Homa Bay County celebrated winning the inaugural Eliud Owalo basketball tournament Sunday with a 55-29 comprehensive victory over Onjiko High School from Kisumu County.
In the Girls category, Ngiya Girls from Siaya beat Tuk Jowi Girls Secondary from Migori 65-38 at the Kenyatta Sports Ground in Kisumu town.
Winners received both trophies and cash prizes.
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The competition was sponsored by Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communication and the Digital Economy Eliud Owalo through his Eliud Owalo Foundation.
He said the region served as feeders for national basketball team producing top notch players in the country promising to revamp the basketball sport.
The new tournament involved 26 schools from the Nyanza playing matches in Maseno, Kisumu Boys, Kisumu Girls, and Jomo Kenyatta Sports Ground with various organizations led by Kenya Sports Academy (KAS) and Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF) camping there keen to scout for the talented players.
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All the teams received uniforms donated by the Foundation. The participating teams included 13 boys and 13 girls’ schools from Kisumu, Homa Bay, Siaya, Nyamira, Kisii and Migori counties.
This translates to 390 student-athletes drawn from Nyanza schools having taken part in the tournament under the watchful eyes of some of the top cream players Kenya has ever had.
Owallo said that having been a basketball player himself, it was time to team up with other top notch colleagues to pay back to society.
He pointed out that talent is good only if it is well nurtured and fully exploited for income generation.
The CS advised the basketball Federation to watch out for corruption which rocked the football game in Kenya with far reaching consequences.
KAS Director John Okwemba said they were scouting for talented players for a team set to represent Kenya in US later this year.
