Sande Bashaija
3 July 2009
The hitherto lively and noisy home fans turned up in a dormant mood. Credited for giving Oguti Primary a lift to the quarterfinal stage of the Coca-Cola U-14 Schools Cup, the plentiful fans let down their team at the most critical moment.
And the final result told it all. Oguti, making a second appearance in the annual tournament, were shown the exit by Kawempe Division's Jolly Joy in a thriller played at the Municipal stadium yesterday.
Jolly got a goal either half from Medi Kyeyune and Faisal Ssekyanzi but, like they have done in the past few days, many expected Oguti to recompose and pull off another upset.
Sadly, they couldn't. But credit to Tororo's other representatives after hosts Rock View failed to 'show up'.
They did better than defending champions Citizen Parents (Makindye), who couldn't make it from the preliminaries. Citizen Parents, two-time winners, finished the group stage on level seven points with Arua but were ejected because of an inferior goal difference.
"Three of our best players are with the KKL team in Europe. That's why we struggled. It's sad we are out but expect us to reclaim our trophy next year," Citizen Parents director Haruna Nambaale vowed. With Citizen out, Arua are the team to beat.
Gadafi Wahab, aka Adjumani, who has become popular here, set Arua on the way to semifinal with a wonderful first half strike.
Tororo
Quarterfinal results
Oguti 0-2 Jolly Joy
Arua 2-0 Murchison Bay
Nakivubo 3 (3) - 3 (1) Mackay
New Life 0(3)- 0 (2) Kahunga
Today (semis)
Jolly Joy v Nakivubo
Arua v New Life
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