Kenya Pipeline sail to African Volleyball Championship final

Kenya Pipeline sail to African Volleyball Championship final

Kenya Pipeline players celebrate after qualifying to the 2023 Women’s African Volleyball Clubs Championship final after defeating CF Carthage 3-2 sets in the semi-final held on Saturday, May 20 2023 in Nabeul, Tunisia. Photo by Kenya Pipeline.

Kenya Pipeline on Saturday evening moved closer to clinching the 2023 Women’s African Volleyball Clubs Championship title following a 3-2 sets win against CF Carthage of Tunisia in the semi final held in Nabeul, Tunisia.

In the match that lasted around 150 minutes, the Oilers sailed to the annual championship final in sets of 25-18, 25-27, 23-25, 25-23 and 15-9 to keep their hopes alive for the first continental title since 2005 and for their seventh glory in total.

In the engrossing five-setter last-four encounter, the local champions started on the wrong footing losing 25-18 before they turned things around in the neck-to-neck second set winning 27-25 and then claimed the third set in 25-23.

The Tunisian side, who saw off AP Rwanda in the quarter finals on Friday, then claimed the fourth set in 25-23 to send the match to the decider set.

In the win-or-burst set, Kenya Pipeline corrected their undoing in poor service oozing to the victory with 15-9 points and immediately they broke into dance, hugging and pecking while others just sunk to their knees, for reaching the final for the first time since 2015.

The Kenyans will face Zamalek in the final after the Egyptians defeated MC Alger of Algeria 3-1 sets in the other last-four match earlier on Saturday. This is Zamalek’s maiden final.

Kenya Pipeline will be keen to recapture the African title they last won in 2005 while under the tutelage of the current Kenya Prisons men’s head coach David Lungáho, who guided them to a 3-0 sets win over record-champions Al Ahly of Egypt in the final held in Nairobi.

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