Mogadishu Girls Basketball Team

UPDATE: Mogadishu Girls made it to the Semi-Finals of the tournament eventually finishing in third place after they beat fellow semi-finalists Nairobi. 

 If you don't know what I'm about to tell you, you've probably been living under an acacia tree in some Alshabab controlled village for the past week.

 Ladies & Gentlemen, Mogadishu is no longer satisfied with dominating the "war scene". That's why the world's most violent city has sent its best girls to conquer East Africa's women's basketball competition.

The hotties were quite impressive in their first outing against reigning champions Nairobi Girls and almost gave us the biggest upset of the tournament. The match was full of alley-oops, hook shots, great dribbles, excellent passes and overall, an outstanding display of basketball. All this achieved with just two weeks of training. You hear that Garissa High School? Speak of making it against the odds!

This's in stark contrast to Garissa High School's effete crew of muscle-atrophied "jocks" who were hapless in all their three matches at the recently concluded KSSSA Kakamega Games.

Embedded Below is a video of the remarkable and inspirational Mogadishu Girls. Just ignore the douchy reporter's claims that Somali women are culturally subjugated. As far as I know, our women are some of the most opinionated and fiercely liberal women in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab league {Think Hawa Tako & Company}. And its not like cabiid women are associated with any kind Feminism, militant or intellectual.

Crossing my fingers for a Cinderella story here.

In unrelated news, Garissa might host the Kenya Secondary Schools Games next year. Read full story here

Garissa High School Clobbered in National Basketball Games

Oh man, how it must feel to be a Garissa High School fan, jock or student right now. It stings like hell. Our hopes for a Cinderella story where a team from the forgotten North East overcomes the long odds to become national basketball champions were quashed late Tuesday thus making the improbable super impossible.

Our boys were clobbered in some of the most lopsided games since Pro's were allowed to participate in  the special Olympics. (Ok, that never happened but imagine if it did).

 In their first match, GHS played Kamusinga School where they were treated to a score of 135-8 with our boys sinking only four baskets during the entire match. As far as crapiness goes , this was historic and unprecedented .

Their second outing was against Upper Hill where again they were thrashed 112-14 in another one-sided game.
Now lets hope for some consolation in the third and pointless match. Hopefully, the boys will sink at least 8 baskets in this one.

That said, I'm sure we all knew a team that has never had the requisite preparation wouldn't do well  in national sports, so this isn't much of a surprise.

Watch out for the girls though. I am sure NEP won't do any worse than GHS.

 For those of you who really don't care about this stuff, good choice. More power to you!

Garissa High School & NEP Girls in National Basketball Championship

   Garissa High School have drawn national champions Maseno High School in pool B of the National Basketball Competition. The games are set to kick off in a week's time in Kakamega town. Laiser Hill and Kangaru round up the group.

NEP Girls Secondary Schools have also been drawn into Pool B of the girl's version to play Laiser Hill, Kingero Girls and Oganda Girls .

The games will take place between April 12- 16th.

We wish both of our teams nothing but the best.