Kenyan teams maintain perfect start as Prisons,Pipeline shine in Cairo

Kenyan teams maintained perfect start in the women volleyball African Club Championship in Cairo, Egypt after Kenya Prisons and Kenya Pipeline recorded emphatic wins of straight sets against Asec of Ivory Coast and Revenue of Rwanda respectively on Sunday.

Six-time champions Pipeline saw off the Rwandese side 25-19,25-19 and 25-15 while five-time winners Prisons eased past Asec 25-12,25-13 and 25-8 as the annual event entered day two at Al Ahly Club Hall.

Following the good start which also saw Kenya Commercial Bank sink DGSP of Congo by 3-0 sets on Saturday, Kenyan teams can dare dream of the championship if they win their respective second preliminary matches.

Prisons will go back to the court tomorrow against Nkumba University of Uganda in their second Pool ‘D’ match. Nkumba lost their opening match 3-0 on Sunday against 2014 Silver medallists El Shams of Egypt.

The Joseph Barasa coached side will then face 2014 champions GSP of Algeria on Tuesday and subsequently wind up the five sided pool matches on Thursday against El Shams.

Pipeline will be facing Shooting of Egypt in their second Pool ‘C’ match on Tuesday 3pm and the latter will be hunting their first win after going down 3-0 against FAP of Cameroon in the opening fixture.

Returnees KCB will face tricky Sporting of Egypt on Tuesday in their second pool match before finishing their preliminary matches against 2017 champions Carthage of Tunisia on Wednesday.

The nine-day event which has attracted 17 teams from across the continent will serve out on March 25.