West Kenya survive scare

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West Kenya Sugar survived a late charge from Elburgon based Timsales FC to emerge 3-2 winners in a Division One Zone B tie played at the Shikutsa Prison grounds on Sunday 19 August 2012 from 1500hrs.

Strongly

The hosts went 3-0 up but the hosts came back into the game strongly with two goals to end the Prison affair at 3-2.

Stanley Shivachi got the first for West Kenya in the fifth minute. Hesbon Onchiri then scored twice – his first in the 35^th minute to send the game to the half at 2-0. He added the third three minutes after the hour mark to make it 3-0 for the hosts.

Seventh

But Timsales got back in the game with a 70^th minute strike from Geoffrey Momanyi. A second came five minutes to time when Humphrey Simiyu’’ goal attempt was fluffed home by West Kenya Sugar’s keeper.

West Kenya improves to 45 points but remain seventh in the 20-team log while Timsales remains 11^th with 31 points. Both have played 25 games.