6th Kyambogo Woodball Open Championship:

Team Winners:

Primary: St Francis Junior School, Buddo (Boys) & Motherwell Junior, Mutungo (Girls)

Secondary: Kyambogo College (Boys) & Mpoma Girls School (Girls)

Institutions/Clubs: Ndejje University A (Men & Women)

The emergence of Mpoma girls school was one of the biggest talking points as the 6th edition of the Kyambogo Woodball open climaxed at the Banda based Institution over the weekend.

During a sunny lit event, on the ‘holy premises’ shared by a congregation of believers, the 2015 edition will go down in history as one of the best attended and highly competitive woodball fetes.

Action drew a mammoth number of participants ranging from primary, secondary to intuitions and clubs.

Mpoma Girls school, virtually an unknown entity in the woodball circles won the secondary girls overall title dethroning 2014’s winner, Kyambogo College.

Mpoma scored a total of 161 strokes getting ahead of Kyambogo by 8 strokes.

The hosts, however, were good enough to retain the men’s title, after fetching 133 strokes to Luzira S.S’ combined 155.

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Clubs:

Ndejje University A won both the men and women event in the clubs’ category beating the second best in both categories – Ndejje University B.

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In one of the most tightest races in the event, Joan Mukova and Lillian Zawedde tied 56 strokes apiece in the singles’ women event as Denis Sekidde scored 50 strokes to beat Joel Adupa by a difference of 2 strokes.

The Tournament Dark Patches:

Although special credit is reserved for the well laid fairways and the diligent officiating team, time management left a lot to be desired.

Little wonder, the tallying of results was delayed and some of the participants who excelled never returned home with their trophies and other prizes, despite the fact that they were available.

Overall, the 6th edition of the Kyambogo open could be envisaged as a plat form on further expanding the sport to greater heights given the tremendous attendance and level of competition.

The Participants:

Clubs/Institutions: Nkumba University, St. Joseph’s Technical Institute Kisubi, Botladz Woodball Club, Ndejje Woodball Club, Ndejje University and Kyambogo University.

Primary Schools: Motherwell Junior School – Mutungo, Green Acres Junior Academy, St. Kizito P/S – Bugolobi, Murchison Bay P/S, and St. Francis Junior School – Buddo

Secondary Schools: Luzira S.S, Mpoma School, Our Lady of Africa S.S Namilyango, and Kyambogo College School.

The next activity on the Uganda Woodball Federation  (UWbF) calendar is the Luwero woodball workshop that will take place on Friday, 20th March 2015 at the Nalinya Lwantale girl’s school.

The 2015 Kyambogo Open Selected results:

Primary Schools

Boys

Name

School

Strokes

1.   Joshua Tolo

St. Kizito P/S Bugolobi

31

2.   Stewart Kibombo

St. Francis Junior School – Buddo

34

3.   Emmy  Sserunkuma

Murchison Bay P/S

36

Team Ranking:

Team

Total Strokes

1.   St. Francis Junior School – Buddo

152

2.   St. Kizito P/S – Bugolobi

161

3.   Green Acres Junior Academy

166

Girls

Name

School

Strokes

1.   Belinda Achira

Motherwell Junior School – Mutungo

37

2.   Sharon Nantongo

St. Francis Junior School – Buddo

39

3.   Arech Dor Deng

Green Acres Junior Academy

39

Team Ranking

Team

Total Strokes

1.   Motherwell Junior School – Mutungo

165

2.   Green Acres Junior Academy

188

3.   St. Kizito P/S – Bugolobi

189

Secondary School

Boys

Name

School

Strokes

1.   Samuel Mubboti

Kyambogo College School

23

2.   Ishimwe Ian Trevor

Our Lady of Africa S.S Namilyango

30

3.   Nadiope Phillip Carl

Kyambogo College School

32

Team Ranking

Team

Total Strokes

1.   Kyambogo College School

133

2.   Luzira S.S

155

3.   Our Lady of Africa S.S Namilyango

163

Girls

Name

School

Strokes

1.   Namugabi Shamirah

Luzira S.S

29

2. PeninahImmaculate Nalukwago

Mpoma School

34

3.    Denise Puleria Nanjeru

Kyambogo College School

37

Team Ranking

Team

Total Strokes

1.   Mpoma School

161

2.   Kyambogo College School

169

3.   Luzira S.S

170

Institutions/Clubs

Men

Name

Team

Strokes

1.   Denis Sekkidde

Ndejje University A

50

2.   Joel Adupa

Ndejje University B

52

3.   Kibuule Franco

Botladz Woodball Club

53

Team Ranking

Team

Total Strokes

1.   Ndejje University A

230

2.   Ndejje University B

236

3.   Botladz Woodball Club

262

Ladies

Name

Team

Strokes

1.   Lillian Zawedde

Ndejje University B

56

2.   Joan Mukoova

Ndejje University A

56

3.   Gladys Nabulya

Kyambogo University

60

Team Ranking

Team

Total Strokes

1.   Ndejje University A

265

2.   Ndejje University B

276

3.   Ndejje Woodball Club

280

Doubles –  Men

Pair

Team

Strokes

1.   Adupa Joel & Bbossa Bruno

Ndejje University B

47

2.   Kibuule Franco & Ariho Isaac

Botladz Woodball Club

54

3.   Muwanguzi Charles & Ntume Ibrahim

Ndejje University B

37

Doubles – Ladies

Pair

Team

Strokes

1.   Operu Viola & Nakato Cissy

Ndejje University A

58

2.   Etuket Mariam & Among Mary Goretti

Botladz Woodball Club

61

3.   Nantege Shamsa Kyolaba & Nabukalu Danilah Mutyaba

Ndejje Woodball Club

65

Mixed Doubles

Pair

Team

Strokes

1.   Charity Nagaba & Israel Muwanguzi Kayongo

Ndejje University B

55

2.   Irene Amito & Faustine Ajoba

Ndejje University A

56

David Isabirye is a senior staff writer for Kawowo Sports where he covers most of the major events.

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