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2009 Women’s African Clubs Championship

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Final
Al Ahly of Egypt, the queens of Africa

Nairobi, Kenya, April 5, 2009- Al Ahly Volleyball Women team of Egypt Becomes the queens of Africa for the sixth time in their history after their thriller victory over Kenya Commercial Bank in the final match the 2009 Women’s African clubs Championship in front of 3000 home spectators here at Moi International Sports Complex of Kasarani in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday. Bejaia of Algeria wins the bronze medal following their victories over Injis of Cameroon in the third place match.
Bafia of Cameroon secured the fifth position after beating APR of Rwanda, followed by Water Sports of Ethiopia who finished seventh after beating Kutlwano of Botswana.
The final was the most exciting match in the competition showing all volleyball skills as Al Ahly took the revenge from the team that defeated them in the 2006 final in Mauritius.

semifinal
KC Bank of Kenya and Al Ahly of Egypt to the final

Nairobi, Kenya, April 4, 2009- KC Bank of Kenya and Al Ahly of Egypt qualified to the final of the 2009 Women’s African clubs Championship following their victories over Bejaia of Algeria and Injis of Cameroon in the semifinal held here at Moi International Sports Complex of Kasarani in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday. KCB meets Al Ahly in a classic Kenyan- Egyptian final of the competition final on Sunday while Bejaia plays Injis for the bronze medal.
The final day will feature also five other matches for the final ranking of the competition: APR (Rwanda) vs. Bafia (Cameroon) for 5 and 6 positions, Kutlwano (Botswana) vs. Water Sports (Ethiopia) for the 7 and 8 positions, Prisons (Kenya) vs. Jadida (Morocco) for the 9 and 10, Canon (RD Congo) vs. Federal prisons for the 11 and 12, VC Club (RD Congo) vs. Les AS (Burundi) for the 13 and 14. The last two positions are already determined after the withdrawal pof Pipelines of Kenya and thus Kampala VC of Uganda secured the 15th position.

Quarterfinal
KC Bank, Bejaia, Ahly and Injis to Semifinal spot

Nairobi, Kenya, April 3, 2009- KC Bank of Kenya, Bejaia of Algeria, Al Ahly of Egypt and Injis of Cameroon secured the semifinal tickets of the 2009 Women’s African clubs Championship following their victories over Kutlwano of Botswana APR of Rwanda Water Sports of Ethiopia and Bafia of Cameroon in the quarterfinal of the competition held here at Moi International Sports Complex of Kasarani in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday. Bejaia meets KCB, while Al Ahly plays Injis in the semifinal of the competition on Saturday.
The matches of the quarterfinal of 9-16 positions showed the withdrawal of Kenya Pipelines team, while as Canon Ndjili of RD Congo defeated their neighbors CV Club, Jadida beat Les AS of Burundi and Prisons downed Kampala of Uganda.
Early this day the control Committee of the 2009 Women’s African Club Championship decided to exclude three players from Kenya Pipelines team: Janet Wanja, Asha Makuto and Lucy Chige and two players from Prisons of Kenya: Esther Mwombe and Jane Wacu from the competition and the results of the matches where these players participated in during the preliminary round of the competition will be reversed and the mentioned teams loses the matches 3-0.
As both teams end the first round at the top of their pools with three victories in a row, Pipeline loses the three matches to finish at the fourth position of the pool A to play for 9 to 16 positions, while Prisons that finished also at the top of Pool B will loses two matches of the three they won because they didn’t field the players in question in the third match to come also in the fourth position and play for the 9-16 positions.
Pipeline declared their withdrawal from the competition and they didn’t show up during their expected match against Federal Prisons of Ethiopia.

Disqualification of Pipelines and Prisons Alleged Players
Nairobi, Kenya, April 3, 2009- The control Committee of the 2009 Women’s African Club Championship decided late on Thursday to exclude three players from Kenya Pipelines team Janet Wanja, Asha Makuto and Lucy Chige and two players from Prisons of Kenya Esther Mwombe and Jane Wacu from the competition and the results of the matches where these players participated in during the preliminary round of the competition will be reversed and the mensioned teams looses the match 3-0.
As both teams end the first round at the top of their pools with three victories in a row, Pipeline will lose the three matches to finish at the fourth position of the pool A to play for 9 to 16 positions, while Prisons that finished also at the top of Pool B will lose two matches of the three they won because they didn’t field the players in question in the third match to come also in the fourth position and play for the 9-16 positions.

Day 3
Three Kenyan teams and 2 from Cameroon qualified to the quarterfinal

Nairobi, Kenya, April 1, 2009- The three Kenyan teams the organizers Pipelines, the defending champions Prisons and KC Bank as well as 2 Cameroon teams Bafia and Injis with Bejaia of Algeria, Al Ahly of Egypt and APR of Rwanda secured the 8 quarterfinal slots of the 2009 Women’s African clubs Championship following their victories in the the third and final day of the preliminary round here at Moi International Sports Complex of Kasarani in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday. The other 8 teams Water Sports and Prisons of Ethiopia, Canon Ndjili, VC Club of RD Congo, Kutlwano of Botswana, Kampala of Uganda, Jadida of Morocco and Les AS of Burundi will play for the 9 to 16 positions.
The final day of the preliminary round showed the third victory for Pipelines, Prisons, KCB of Kenya and Al Ahly of Egypt to lead the four pools, while the other four teams Injis and Bafia of Cameroon, Bejaia of Algeria and APR of Rwanda set the second victory that qualified them to the quarterfinal.
The quarterfinal matches will be held on Friday which feature 4 matches for 1-8 positions and other 4 for the 9-16 positions

Day 2
The big favorites achieve second victory

Nairobi, Kenya, March 31, 2009- the big favorites Pipelines, Kenya Prisons and KC Bank of Kenya and Al Ahly of Egypt achieved their second victory in a row to secure a semifinal slot after the second day of the 2009 Women’s African clubs Championship here at Moi International Sports Complex of Kasarani in Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday. The second day showed also the first victory for Kampala VC of Uganda, Water Sports of Ethiopia and Kutlwano of Botswana.
The problem of the frequent electricity interruption was repeated many times in the indoor hall forcing the referees to stop the matches many times.
In an unrecorded occasion Al Ahly of Egypt accepted to play two matches in the same day as they played Canon Ndjili in the morning in their postponed match from the first day and then played the second against APR of Rwanda near midnight.
The second match of Pool D between Federal prisons of Ethiopia and Canon Ndjili of Cameroon was postponed to the rest day on Thursday.

Day 1
Kenya and Cameroon teams achieved 100% victory
Nairobi, Kenya, March 30, 2009- In an opening day full of problems all the favorite teams KC Bank, Prisons, and Pipelines of Kenya as well as Bafia and Injis of Cameroon and Naceria Bejaia of Algeria achieved their first victory in the 2009 Women’s African clubs Championship here at Moi International Sports Complex of Kasarani in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday. The frequent electricity interruption happening to the hall disturbed the schedule in the competition’s first day as the first two matches had to stop more than three times due to hall lightening problem making a delay of about three hours to start the matches. The promising APR team of Rwanda was the biggest fighters as they spend more than two hours in a five set match to defeat the surprising Federal Prisons of Ethiopia.
The last match of the day between Al Ahly of Egypt and Canon Ndjili of RD Congo was postponed due to the late end of the former matches till the midnight.
The matches were attended by CAVB Control Committee President Tom Omongole, SOC Delegate Mrs. Touria Aarab, Referee Delegate Salamba, CC member Jacob Owiti, CAVB technical director Howyda Mondy and most of the Kenyan volleyball federation board led by the president Wathiaka Kioni

Drawing of lots
16 teams compete for the African queens’ title

Nairobi, Kenya, March 29, 2009- With a historic record of participating team the 2009 Women’s African club championship will be opened at Moi International Sports Center at Kasarani in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday with the defending champions Prisons of Kenya playing Water Sports of Ethiopia in the opening day. The 2008 Bronze medalists KC Bank of Kenya will start their program against Kampala VC of Uganda. The usual big favorite Al Ahly of Egypt plays Canon Ndijili of RD Congo while the team having the record of cups Pipelines meets Water Sports of Ethiopia. The competition that feature 16 participating teams divided into 4 pools will show 8 matches in the opening day.
The drawing of lots done in Nairobi on Sunday put the three Kenyan teams the organizers Pipeline, the defending champions Prisons and the KC Bank with the Al Ahly of Egypt who has five titles under their built as heads of the four preliminary pools. Pool A comprises Pipeline (KEN), VC (RD Congo), Naceria of Bejaia (ALG) and Water Sports (ETH). Pool B Prisons (KEN), Kutwano (BOT), Bafia (CMR) and Les As (BUR). In pool C; KC Bank (KEN), Injs (CMR), Kampala VC (UGA) and Olympic of Jadida (MOR) and in Pool D Al Ahly (EGY), APR (RWA), Canon Ndijili (RD Congo) and Federal prisons (ETH).