Swords unleash their raw power on Oryx but coach Owino far from impressed

Despite crushing KU ORYX 49-10 in the national women’s basketball premier league match played at the USIU grounds over the weekend, Strathmore Swords head coach Ronnie Owino is not satisfied with his girls’ performance.

 “We did not really play well; we are still unfit. We need to work on our fitness. We were bigger than them in terms of size, something we failed to take advantage of.

We need to play better moving forward and by doing so we need to improve on all areas including endurance and skills,” Owino said.

Strathmore have accumulated 29 points from 17 matches, winning 12 and registering five defeats while KU have only managed to register two wins, losing 12 in the 14 matches played so far and have 16 points.

They travel to Mombasa to face undefeated Kenya Ports Authority on Saturday at Makande Gymnasium.

In their weekend win against KU ORYX, Strathmore started off well in the first quarter winning 11-03 before another win of 15-05 in the second quarter as they took a lead of 26-08 at the break.

The Swords continued to show impressive display in the second half as they won third quarter 05-00 before winding up with a massive win of 18-02 in the last quarter.

Joy Mupalia and Vanesa Mariska were shining stars for Strathmore dropping 21 points combined while Esther Aliyah had five for ORYX.

Elsewhere, Ulinzi Warriors head coach Bernard Mufutu has attributed their weekend win to solidarity. This is after defeating Strathmore Blades 56-47 in a tight match played at the same venue.

The win took the soldiers total tally to 26 after playing 15 matches, winning 11 and losing four.

“It was a tight match, we controlled the boards well, guys shared the ball well and the consistency was okay. We had some lapses here and there but the better part of the game we played consistently,” he concluded.