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Saturday 26 January 2019

A MORE ADVANCED OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND PLAY LACROSSE IN AFRICA.

SUPER LACROSSE LEAGUE A MORE ADVANCED AND INCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND PLAY LACROSSE IN AFRICA.
The historical game day 1 had 5 teams kick off their quest for being crowned the 1st champions of the SLL. A mammoth crowd formed at Six aside arena in Kyambogo to watch the beautiful game a considerable number of people for the first time. As lacrosse administrators in a young program this is what we look forward to, new people learning and getting attracted.
MUBS Lacrosse team-SUPER LACROSSE LEAGUE Day 1

"I have been hosting mini-lacrosse one day tournaments over the last 5 years but after being selected to represent this country Uganda at the Israel World games 2018,  am ready for a more consistent and organised league format of lacrosse."- Twesiime Liberty SLL Coordinator.
Twesiime Liberty-Attack Panthers Lacrosse (Super Lacrosse League Coordinator)
Lacrosse is a continuous learning process and league play through the year will be a major platform for the majorly young players to develop both athletic and social skills important to harness further opportunities as the grow up.

Full game day results.
Silverbacks 9-2 Panthers
Prisons NileCrocs 2-5 Silverbacks
Panthers 3-4 Prisons NileCrocs
Maroons 8-9 MUBS
#ExhibitionGameMen
Uganda Cranes select 8-9 U19 Boys Select Team(OT)
Uganda Cranes select 8-9 U19 Boys Select Team(OT)

Great lacrosse action that had people cheering from the 1st minutes up until the Exhibition game ended in overtime.
Ogik George drew the 1st blood and Twesiime Liberty equaled matters before 2nd quarter ended 3-6 in favour of the U19 boys team.
Ohan Sam[15] ensuring tight defense in mid field.

Albert Mugaga stopping a shot from Ochan Reaga[ 99].
Unwilling to loose to juniors Okura John Paul had scored 4 times Twesiime Liberty and Ssazi Kenneth twice each at full-time just to force an overtime game decider where game day overall MVP Komakech Edward scored the golden goal for the junior's to claim their biggest win so far.
Goal scorers
#U19Team
Komakech Edward 5
Ochan Reagan 2
Mukaga John Brian 1
Ogik George 1
#SeniorMen
Okura John Paul 4
Twesiime Liberty 2
Saazi Kenneth 2






Yours in Lacrosse

Twesiime Liberty.
#23 Uganda Lacrosse National Team 
Israel World Games 2018.
Principal Coordinator-Africa Lacrosse
Kampala-Uganda.
@africalacrosse twitter/facebook and Instagram

Saturday 5 January 2019

Uganda Select U19 team kicks off World games pursuit in Kenya.

Uganda Select U19 team plays at the Inaugural Kenya open schools championship.
Ruth Tushemerirwe against Kenya in Nov 2018

Uganda U19 select lacrosse team that traveled to on 5 with 27 man delegation to Kenya won 4 of 5 game's, thanks to Coach Dorothy Nakato for leading the girls in back to back high performance games that yielded a desirable result for the team.

Kalaba SS 0-7 Uganda Select
Moi Girls Nangili 0-3 Uganda Select
Moi Girls Eldoret 4-3 Uganda Select
Mukumu girls 0-3 Uganda Select

Messiah College(USA) 7-2 Uganda Select
Atuhaire Naume

Kenya 10-1 Messiah college(USA)

Uganda Scorers
Sherena Mwenyangwe 5
Sasha Philips 3
Atuhaire Naume 2
Keza Natasha 1
Namutebi Scovia 1
Tushemerirwe Ruth 1
Nalwada Flavia 1

The event hosted by Kenya Lacrosse at Mukumu in the mid Western province and powered by Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Major focus is to create enough game time and playing experience for the players that will make the final cuts for the national teams that are representing Kenya and Uganda at the years U19 championship in Canada. #LetsGoGirls #AfricaLacrosse