May 16, 2009

Upper Hill are the new St. Mary's School Blackrock Festival champions after they edged out Strathmore 6-3 in 'sudden

death' at St. Mary's School.

Vincent Mwadime and Bryan kicked over a drop goal each for Upper Hill with Strathmore School slotting only one.

This was the second time in just two days that the two schools were meeting. Upper Hill had on Wednesday

defeated Strathmore School 20-5 in a Prescott Cup tie.

In the semi-finals, Strathmore School upset hosts St. Mary's 1-0 while Upper Hill brushed past Hillcrest 14-0.

Dagoretti High took the Plate by beating Sunshine Academy 14-7 while Rossly Academy overcame Muhuri Muchiri

49-0 in the Bowl final.

In the newly introduced girls’ category, Hidden Talent Academy beat Maono II 14-7 in the final of the main cup.

Nembu II defeated St.Martins II by the same margin to win the Bowl while St. Teresa's edged out Maono 1 7-0 in

the Shield final.

Full Results

Boys

Main Cup
Quarter finals: Strathmore I 14 Peponi I 0, St. Mary's I 28 Lenana 0, RVA I 0 Upper Hill 7, Nairobi School 0 Hillcrest 15;

Semi-final: Strathmore 1 St. Mary's I 0, Upper Hill 14 Hillcrest 7; Final: Strathmore 3 Upper Hill 6.

Plate
Quarter finals: Jamhuri 0 Sunshine Academy 14, RVA II 0 St. Mary's II 7, Jamhuri 0 Dagoretti 14, Upper Hill II 14

Strathmore II 0; Semi-final: Sunshine Academy 14 St. Mary's II 0, Dagoretti 14 Upper Hill II 7; Final: Sunshine

Academy 7 Dagoretti 14.

Bowl
Quarter finals: Mutuini bye, Rosslyn Academy bye, Muhuri Muchiri 14 Alliance High 0; Semi-final: Mutuini 0 Rosslyn

Academy 28, Muhuri Muchiri bye; Final: Rosslyn Academy 49 Muhuri Muchiri 0.

Pool A: Strathmore I 49 Mutuini 0, Strathmore 10 Jamhuri II 0, Mutuini 0 Jamhuri II 0.

Pool B: RVA I 14 Jamhuri I 0,

Pool C: Nairobi School 0 Muhuri Muchiri 0, Nairobi School 7 Upper Hill II 0, Muhuri Muchiri 0 Upper Hill II 0.

Pool D: St. Mary's I 49 RVA II 0, St. Mary's I 14 Ofafa Jericho 0, Ofafa Jericho 0 RVA II 0.

Pool E: Hillcrest 7 Strathmore II 3, Hillcrest 20 Alliance II 0, Alliance II 0 Strathmore II 14.

Pool F: Lenana 8 St. Mary's II 0, Moi Forces Academy 0 St. Mary's II 14.

Pool G: Upper Hill I 7 Rosslyn Academy 0, Upper Hill I 21 Dagoretti 0, Dagoretti 7 Rosslyn Academy 0.

Pool H: Peponi 0 Sunshine Academy 0, Peponi 14 Riruta 0, Riruta 0 Sunshine Academy 14.

Girls

Pool A: Precious Blood I 7 State House Girls II 0, Nembu II 0 Precious Blood I 21, State House Girls II 0 Nembu II 7.

Pool B: Precious Blood II 0 State House Girls I 14, Nembu I Precious Blood II 0, State House Girls I 7 Nembu I 0.

Pool C: Maono I 0 St. Martins II 7, Hidden Talent 14 Maono I 0, St. Martins I 7 Hidden Talent 7.

Pool D: Maono II 14 St. Martins I 0, St. Teresa's 0 Maono II 14, St.Martins I 14 St. Teresa's 0.

Main Cup
Semi-finals: Precious Blood I 0 Maono II 7, States House Girls I 7 Hidden Talent 14; Final: Hidden Talent 14 Maono II 7.

Bowl semi-final: Nembu II 21 St.Martins I 0, Nembu I 0 St.Martins B II 7; Final: Nembu II 14 St.Martins II 7.

Shield
Semi-finals: State House Girls II 0 St. Teresa's 14, Precious Blood II 0 Maono I 7; Final: St. Teresa's 7 Maono I 0.

The Rift Valley Academy rugby varsity team waited six hours at Saturday's Black Rock Tournament and only

got to play one twenty-minute game against Upper Hill in the quartersfinals, which they lost 7-0.

Upper Hill snuck a try in the right corner early in the game for the only points of the game.  Although RVA spent

most of the short game on Upper Hill's half of the field, they could not score a try to even up the score.

Over 300 Buffalo fans - and nearly half of the Black Rock crowd at St. Mary's school - rooted their team on for

the first time of the day at 3 p.m., but since RVA's first game was in the knockout round, it was also their last game.

Two other teams whom they were supposed to play did not show up, and another team that was already there

refused to play them, accepting a forfeit instead. RVA came out the tournament very disappointed at the turn of

events.

"That ws the worst Black Tournament ever," said RVA player Tyler Kinzer. He also hopes that next year's Black

Rock will be better organized.

Varsity player Alban Howorth said, "It was not the losing that made it a very disappointing tournament; it was that

we did not get to play."

By Beatrice Cochran