The Kenya women’s deaf basketball team today began their campaign in the Tokyo Deaflympics on a wrong footing after losing giants Australia at Ota-City General Gymnasium.
Kenya lost in all the four quarters of the Group “A” match – 44-3, 15-9,28-8, and 17-10 for the match to end at 104-30.
Kenya’s coach Mary Chepkoi attributed the team’s huge loss to fatigue due to the long travel to Tokyo from Nairobi. She expressed confidence that her girls will bounce back against Italy at the same venue at 3:50pm local time (9:50am in Kenya) “We will have a sitting later to talk about today’s game but we have to adjust before our match against Italy,” she said.
Kenya’s point guard Mercy Mideva expressed hope that the team would pick up the pieces in their match against Italy.
“We have lost the match, of course we feel not happy about it but we are hoping to learn from the mistakes. Tomorrow (Monday), we will have another match and Kenya is going to try its best to improve in the performance,” said Mideva.