Kenyan men started on a losing note at the FIVB Continental Cup cum Olympic qualifiers that served off today in Agadir, Morocco

The Patrick Owino led side fell to Nigeria 2-1(13-21,21-19,13-15) in pool B opening fixture in the Golden match.

The golden match arrived after the two teams registered mixed results in the first matches when the pair of team B Brian Melly and Enock Mogeni defeated Nigeria’s A pair of Simon Hillary and Obayemi Ogunshina 2-0 (21-15,21-13) while Kenya’s team A of Ibrahim Oduor and James Mwaniki lost to nigeria’s pair teqam B of Ezeke Emenike and Chidebere Okeke 2-0 (21-16,21-16) for a total of five points.

Golden match is staged to break the tie between the countries. In the golden match, the countries get to chose their best two players from the four and in this case, Kenya coach Patrick Owino settled on Melly and Mogeni.