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By Gabriel Esiku Mama Kit Football is Dan Okiror emerged vic- tor over Jeremiah Nyaki Okiror lights up Kumi in the East African all over Kabale town championship fight at Kumi on Saturday. By Bwogi Buyera Okiror, who won a gold medal at an internation- A football tournament aimed at sensitis- al tournament in Nepal ing the community on maternal health last year, trounced his has been launched in Kabale district. opponent in the first, The women only football tournament will second and third feature selected teams from within the district rounds before knock- to compete for a trophy as a means of high- ing him out in the lighting the maternal health challenges in the fourth and last round district. of the fight. The main objective of the tournament, ac- “Kickboxing is not cording to the organiser, Moses Gumisiriza, an easy sport and most people is to use sport and sensitise the community fear it. Therefore one should not especially young women about the problems under-look any opponent, but associated with reproductive health. Okiror has made it for the sec- He added that the project is part of con- ond time,” said Okiror’s coach tinuation of the government’s effort to make James Omoding. maternal health services accessible and af- “Teso has a lot of talent and fordable for women in . enthusiasm for the sport,” the ‘’During the tournament we will donate Uganda Kickboxing As- mama kits and mosquito nets to pregnant Nyaki’s corner-woman helps him after he was knocked down by Uganda’s sociation president Hassan women and hold a cervical cancer screening Okiror (inset right) during the Kumi battle, Saturday. Photo by Gabriel Esiku Sekirime remarked. exercise in Kabale Municipality,’’ Gumisiriza said. Sh30m raised to Save Your Child in USUAL SUSPECTS By Aloysius Byamukama Sh30m was raised in the first edition of the ‘Yamba Omwana Waawe’ (Save Your Child) run staged on Saturday in Mbarara town. The run organised by Miss Tourism Ankole AT BALL GAMES II Region in conjunction with Uganda Tourism By Aloysius Byamukama Board, was aimed at soliciting funds towards a sh3b project for a theatre at the Holy In- Ankole Ball Games II nocents Children’s Hospital Mbarara. The day’s chief runner and Archbishop of Netball final Mbarara Paul Bakyenga flagged off the race Sentah College 27 Welden 26 which featured a 2km, 3km, 5km and 10km events. Robert Lubega from won the Semifinals 10km race and got a TV set while home boy Sentah College 27 Aisha Girls’ 20 Bruce Tindyebwa came second. The women’s race was won by Aisha Byabagambi while Ad- Welden 45 Mbarara Army 24 son Mwebaze from St. Mary’s Primary School final (boys) won the children’s 2km race and got himself a new sports bike. Ntare School 2 Mbarara High 0 Semifinals Mutagamba, Bishop Kakubi fall In a bizarre incident at the end of the race, Ntare School 2 Ntungamo 1 Bishop Emeritus of Mbarara John Baptist Mbarara High 2 Bugamba 0 Kakubi and Minister Maria Mutagamba fell off the podium. Girls’ volleyball final The two, accompanied by regional Miss St. Bridget 2 Bweranyangi 0 Tourism queens and other guests, collapsed in a heap when the stage gave way under their weight. None of them was injured and Ntare School, St. Bridget and Sentah the function proceeded though Mutagamba College emerged champions in differ- left without making her speech while Bishop ent categories at the Ankole Region Kakubi remained up to the end. Ball Games II as the three-day event climaxed at Kyamate SS in Ntungamo Municipality on Sunday. In the finals that pitted the arch-rivals in Tennis at Jinja Club both volleyball and netball, Ntare School beat perennial rivals Mbarara High in straight sets By Bruno Mugooda in Jinja to regain their boys’ volleyball status. St. Bridget took care of Mary Hill High School in volleyball while Sentah College A team of five South African experts overcame their rivals Welden 27-26 in a hotly from Stellenbosch University on Friday contested netball final. completed a one week tennis clinic at Ntare’s attacker Jiel Deng was all over with Jinja Club with a view of bringing back the sport at the club . his unstoppable spikes to lead his side to a 25- The head of the team Bernard Van der Veen 21 and 25-23 win to regain the title they lost to revealed that the one-week training session Mbarara High last year. was aimed at introducing the game of tennis to “This was a sweet win for us and we are people of various age categories. now focusing at the National Ball Games II in Gulu,” said Ntare setter Joshua Nyesiga. Deng (second, right) spikes in the semis; Sentah (top) jubilate. Photos by A. Byamukama