{"id":76534,"date":"2023-01-25T11:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T11:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/01\/25\/busia-tug-of-war-players-picked-for-national-trials-kenya-news-agency\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T11:10:14","slug":"busia-tug-of-war-players-picked-for-national-trials-kenya-news-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/01\/25\/busia-tug-of-war-players-picked-for-national-trials-kenya-news-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Busia tug of war players picked for national trials \u2013 Kenya News Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Nine women and men\u2019s tug of war players from Busia County have been selected for trials with the national team in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>The players were picked during this year\u2019s edition of the Kenya Inter-Counties Sports and Cultural Association (KICOSCA) Games that ended in Kisumu last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The ladies\u2019 team includes Doris Mukhongo, Adelaide Akotsi, Sarah Mwandoto, Dr Billi Msafiri and Olivia Omuse while Joseph Omogola, Jude Emomeri and Isaac Okapesi were selected from the male squad.<\/p>\n<p>Busia team manager, Solomon Itubo said the nine players deserved to join the national team which is being constituted for the first time owing to their impressive performance\u00a0at the games.<\/p>\n<p>Busia Queens fought off stiff opposition to pull outgoing champions Nairobi 2:2 in play-offs. They were second behind runners-up Kakamega, and winners Kisii who had beaten them 2-0 in semis.<\/p>\n<p>Busia began the games on a positive note by pulling Vihiga 2 to 1, before losing to Nairobi 2 to 1. However,\u00a0they recovered their poise to pull Kisumu and Nyeri 2-0 respectively to sail through to the quarters where they pulled Nakuru City 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Busia men\u2019s team fell in the quarterfinals to new champions Kisumu which pulled them 2-0. The border county had lost 2-0 against Laikipia, but bounced back to beat Narok 2-0 and Kiambu 2 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Itubo attributed the women\u2019s team vast improvement, bettering their ninth podium finish in the previous edition of the games to team spirit right from the governor, CEC,\u00a0captain and players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus will be on the next KICOSCA games in Kilifi where we shall strive to silence defending champions Kisumu and Kisii,\u201d he said, noting that they have what it takes to capture the two titles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Absalom Namwalo<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyanews.go.ke\/busia-tug-of-war-players-picked-for-national-trials\/\">kenyanews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine women and men\u2019s tug of war players from Busia County have been selected for trials with the national team in Nairobi. The players were picked during this year\u2019s edition of the Kenya Inter-Counties Sports and Cultural Association (KICOSCA) Games that ended in Kisumu last weekend. The ladies\u2019 team includes Doris Mukhongo, Adelaide Akotsi, Sarah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Busia tug of war players picked for national trials \u2013 Kenya News Agency - African News Paper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2023\/01\/25\/busia-tug-of-war-players-picked-for-national-trials-kenya-news-agency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Busia tug of war players picked for national trials \u2013 Kenya News Agency - African News Paper\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nine women and men\u2019s tug of war players from Busia County have been selected for trials with the national team in Nairobi. 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