NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 21 – Madina Okot turned around to the face of Valerie Kemunto trash talking on her face after a superb block under the rims, and she responded by nodding her head; it was halfway into the second quarter, and from then on, the game changed. Like a lioness scorned, Okot, who is headed to the United States after the end of the Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF) Premier League season single-handedly turned the game around, as the Zetech Sparks came from down to thrash Equity Hawks 62-50 in Game One of the national play-offs. Okot tallied a double double of 29 points and a massive 21 rebounds, with four assists to her stats of the night, in a brilliant performance by the University girls.
The Sparks trailed by 10 points at the end of the first quarter and seven by halftime, but the turned the game on its head with an enviable second half performance to win the game by an eight-point margin. “Today I give it to the girls. It is purely the work they put on the court.
We started slow but they had the mental fortitude to come back and win the game. It is amazing what they have done,” Zetech head coach Maurice Obillo said. Without their newest star Mitchelle Soukoudjou, who has been barred from playing over technicalities, everyone thought they would crumble under pressure and indeed, it seemed so as they trailed 16-6 at the end of the opening quarter.
They had lost Mary Lisa Omondi to USIU just before the end of the regular season and believed the coming in of.
