Weatherhead certain to keep top position
Peter Elolu’s creativity has always been key for Weatherhead in their tough encouters. PHOTO: MAKHTUM MUZIRANSA
KAMPALA- Barring a change to status quo, Weatherhead are more than guaranteed to keep of the men’s Uganda Baati Hockey League without breaking sweat in Lugogo today. The unbeaten leaders with 35 points in 13 games should benefit from a walkover at the expense of City Lions, who are on strike over unanswered financial questions by Uganda Hockey Association’s executive members.
The impasse between some clubs and the UHA leadership started when plans to send the national teams to South Africa for the Olympic qualifiers last month fell through.
Clubs like City Lions, Rockets, Deliverance Church (DCU), Rhinos Kampala Hockey Club (KHC) and Wananchi signed a petition in which they demanded for accountability of the past three financial years from UHA and audit into how the teams failed to travel – among other things.
Threatening boycott
The clubs threatened to boycott tournaments among other measurements to force UHA to heed to their call. UHA has since called for an extraordinary assembly on October 5th to address the concerns.
The latter two clubs appeared for their scheduled games last weekend while Rockets are expected to turn up for their encounter against Makerere. Heavy rains last Saturday could not help us physically verify whether Rhinos would boycott the league but their opponents KHC Swans where at the pitch but we can find out next Saturday during their 4pm scheduled hit-off with DCU.
Meanwhile, KHC Stallions – who earned a walkover over City Lions last weekend – can push Weatherhead closer to triumph if they can learn how to earn points off second-placed Wananchi (32 points). The sides drew 1-1 in the first round but Wananchi won the second in June 7-1.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
TODAY’S FIXTURES
M: Makerere vs. Rockets
M: Weatherhead vs. City Lions
M: Wananchi vs. KHC Stallions
