By Kisakye Cassious David
The semester was one filled with many events that captured our attention, and the sports field was no exception. From the pitches of soccer and rugby, to the courts of basketball and netball. Through all the matches, wins, draws, medals and so on, UMUSpotlight was at all the scenes to c everything.
In Rugby, the boys seemingly became indestructible crushing every so called opponent that fate brought to their grasps. They participated in the Western Uganda 7s Series, where they won all the 3 circuits in Bushenyi, Mbabrara and here home at Nkozi. The final leg took place in Mbarara where they topped the final table standings of 5 teams with a mammoth point’s mass of 44 points with the runnersuo 6 points behind. This performance is deserving of champions and looks like the Rugby continent will be well represented in Dodoma and hopefully our wings will surpass Uganda Uganda a conquer East Africa.
Looking at football, the UMU saints were unfortunately unable to defend their University Football league trophy as we were sadly lost out at the quarter final level to the eventual champions, which maybe cushions the fall, though considering Kyambogo University took the crown, maybe you will be the judge of that. The Saints put up a good show and gained massive support from the whole community of Nkozi, and speaking of our dear community, we emerged victorious in the Silver Jubilee Tournament as Nkozi took the crown, after defeating Kayabwe at the Finals on penalties, grabbing a lot more medals, trophies and sports gear plus obviously the Bull. It may not have been the fairytale end for the Saints but we are coming back strong in 2019.
In others sports, the Basketball boys were able to emerge runners-up in their Division, so bravo. The netball team had an exhibition match with the MPs and did brilliant as they crushed the honorables with lots of honor in the game.
The sports secretariat at UMU has also re affirmed that preparations highly anticipated Inter-Faculty Games are already in full swing and all the gear is available, so come February, 2018, the sports -mania at Uganda Martyrs University will be astronomical.
Our team got to know of the upcoming Association of Uganda University Sports Forum meeting that will take place at the main campus on May 16th.
Not forgetting, the Fort portal campus that has worked hand in hand with the main campus to be able to organize a sports derby in fields of Football and Volleyball, and speaking of the latter, our UMU Spotlight team sat down with the Sports Ministry of UMU to find a way of supporting the Volleyball team, and as per details from the meeting, a deal was struck for UMU Spotlight to become the main partners of the Volleyball team starting next semester.
We love to thank the sports secretariat for working with UMU Spotlight to bring viable and brilliant coverage of everything in the fields, courts, arenas and so on, as already said 2018 will be bigger. UMU Spotlight will always be on the spot to bring to you all the sports from our beloved University.
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