With one week to go in the pool phase of the 2014 Prescott Cup, Mangu High School and the St. Mary’s Academy are on the brink of relegation.
After four rounds in Pool B, the Saints anchor this pool on 1 point, with no wins in four. The side was deducted 2 points for not honouring their fixture against the Rift Valley Academy.
Mangu still have a game to play in Pool A but have already sealed last place in this pool. 1 point from three outings sees the side six points behind Strathmore, who have completed their pool matches.
These two rugby giants will now play in a relegation play off to determine who drops to the Damu Pevu.
Laiser Hill Academy and Alliance High School are set to meet later today to determine who will finish top of Pool A. Currently Laiser Hill are on 12 points having not lost a game this far with Alliance on 9 points off two wins and a Loss.
Upperhill will be following that match closely as they are only one point behind Alliance and are still to play Mangu. Strathmore are set to finish fourth in this Pool to set up a meeting against the top finishers in Pool B in the quarter finals.
RVA lead Pool B on 16 points, off three wins and a draw, they are closely followed by Lenana who are on 14 points off a similar run. Kiambu finish third on 9 points with Ofafa Jericho in fourth on five points and as earlier mentioned Saints round up the Pool B standings with 1 point.
As things stand, this is how the quarter final pairings will look like :
RVA Vs Strathmore
Lenana vs Uperhill
Kiambu vs Alliance
Ofafa vs Laiserhill
Remember, the official pairings are yet to be released.
This makes for interesting times in Schools’ rugby as the traditional ‘giants’ face a torrid time. It will be remembered that Nairobi School were relegated from the Prescott Cup last year, though the Patch Machine are doing well in the Damu Pevu, there is in deed a wave of change sweeping through schools’ rugby.
Laiserhill Academy for example, have been slaying the ‘giants’ with little discretion, topping Pool A here and impressively finishing second in the National sevens games the other day.
Collated Prescott Results :
POOL A : Strathmore 6-10 Laiser Hill, UpperHill vs Mangu (Postponed), Laiser Hill 13-7 Upperhill, Alliance 17-15 Strathmore, Upperhill 10-5 Alliance, Mangu 14-22 Laiser Hill, Alliance 14-0 Mangu, Strathmore 13-15 Upperhill, Mangu 12-15 Strathmore, Laiserhill vs Alliance
POOL B
Ofafa Jericho 10-21 Kiambu, Lenana 7-5 St Marys, Kiambu 7-15 Lenana, RVA 39-0 Ofafa Jericho, Lenana 0-0 RVA, St Marys 10-12 Kiambu, RVA 24-0 St Marys, Ofafa Jericho 5-8 Lenana, St Marys 7-10 Ofafa Jericho, Kiambu 15-21 RVA
KWISHA…Nimeruka Nje!!
