By ENOCK NGOME

Kenya are this year’s champions for the East Africa Challenge Trophy to make it the ninth time they had won the trophy.

The team captained by Francis Kimani resisted a stiff challenge to win the regional title at the Arusha Gymkhana.

Kenya entered the final day leading by just a single point over host nation Tanzania up to the end of the foursome matches.

Kenya had won all the foursome matches while Tanzania managed to post three out of the four matches to trail the neighbours by a point.

Kenya collected eleven points adding to their overnight score of seven points as Tanzania had ten.

The afternoon session was the most unpredictable as matches extended up to darkness as each team pressed hard for points. Perhaps the most interesting matches of all that pulled many spectators was between Adam Abbas and Nuru Mollel versus Kenyan duo of David Opatti and J. Karanja.

The Tanzanian duo was leading by a hole up to the par four 14th and then all square duo to the par five 17th.

The Tanzanian team needed to post victories in all of the singles matches in today’s final round.

The title contention had been narrowed to a two horse race as Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi have been performing poorly dishing out points to Kenya and Tanzania players.

Holders Uganda were completely out of contention as their team that won the regional title last year in Kigali has all of its members turn professionals. joyeria pandora joyeria pandora

ON WINNING WAYS: David Opati is feted for winning the Kenya Matchplay Championships last week at the Thika Sports Club, he was also crowned Tanzania Open winner on Sunday.

By ENOCK NGOME

Kenya’s David Opati carried his local form to international duty when he managed to resist a strong challenge to walk away with this year’s Tanzania Open Strokeplay Championship after ending the final round on five under par 283 (70, 68, 72, 73).

He beat his nearest challenger, Tanzania’s John Leonce by four shots as the tournament ended at the Arusha Gymkhana on Sunday. Leonce that put up a brave fight managed one under par 287 (74, 69, 73, 71).

Meanwhile, Nuru Mollel of Tanzania had initially tied with Opatti for a cumulative six under par totals 138 at the end of the second round of the Open championship.

The scratch handicapper Mollel had his stars shinning right from the opening round played on Thursday when he returned a scintillating four under par 68 to open a two-shot gap over Opatti.

Opatti and Mollel were the only competitors who managed to return under par scores on the opening round.

However, Mollel slightly staggered in the second round when he carded two under par 70 while Opatti impressed with a four under par total 68.

Another Tanzanian was John Leonce whose three under par total 69 lifted him to stay just behind the leading duo on one over par 143 totals.

Leonce, who was sixth placed after the opening round with a score of two over par 74, eventually finished second. nike air max günstig nike air max günstig