Mwere piles pressure on favourites, awakens Jets

Jets has always looked like a team with hidden potential in the Pursuit Swim League.

Their roster has some of the league's best performers like Sonia Mwere, Elijah Wamala and Ethan Kunihira among others but they had until match eight last Friday, struggled to perform to the sum of their parts.

But Mwere hit it off in the personal best challenge, where she went under one minute and 20 seconds with a 1:19.67 in the 100m backstroke, to set them up for a triumphant day and five match points.

She beat perennial top performers in this event Abigail Mwagale, the Talons captain, and Paula Nabukeera, who captains Flames, by fine margins en route to winning the race. 

Mwere's performance aside, Jets definitely needed some self destruction from their rivals to have a successful match. But that is what the league is all about - capitalizing on days your opponent hit the snooze button.

Astros struggled as Tanja Atukunda and Caspian Guma were absent thereby finishing with just 40 scores and one point. 

Flames suffered two disqualifications in the 6*50m freestyle and backstroke relays while Talons and Astros were also disqualified in the latter.

Only Colts tried to mount a challenge and they indeed performed better with 200 points from the relays - 40 more than Jets. 

But Mwere and Nailah Nalukenge (1:38.55 for 20 points) had already done the damage in the PB challenge, where Colts and Talons had just 20 points thanks to improved times from Liora Lumu (1:37.07) and Nicole Kobusingye (1:34.54) respectively.

PURSUIT LEAGUE
Overall Standings
Flames - 28 points
Talons - 27
Jets - 23
Colts - 22
Astros - 20

MATCH EIGHT RESULTS 
Event             Talons Flames Jets Astros Colts
100m back       20       00        120    00       20
14*25m back   00        00       00      00       00
6*50m fly          20       40        50      10       30
6*50m back     -20      -20       50     -20       40
6*50m breast   50       -20       30      20       40
6*50m free       30        40       20     10       50
14*25m free    30        50       10      20       40
Total                  130     090     280    040     220
Match Points      3         2          5        1          4