School Games: St.Anthony Kitale intensify preps, out to reclaim hockey title

St. Anthony Kitale hockey head coach Kevin Lugalia says they have intensified their preparations ahead of the upcoming school games.

Speaking to Citizen Digital, Lugalia says he's been impressed by his team's work rate in the tournament and friendly matches that they have played and he believes they will be ready for the competition that begins this month.

 “I am really impressed by the team’s progress so far, we have play a good number of friendly matches and you can see the hunger in the team; they (players) are giving their all, there is healthy competition in the team and that is very impressive for us,” said Lugalia.

St. Anthony have twice lost the national title to their rivals Musingu High School in the last two years and the head coach believes they have what it takes to reclaim the gong.

“Musing are doing really well at the moment, but our focus is to take one game at a time; we have to move stage by stage; that is our aim, I believe we have what it takes to reclaim the title but we won’t get carried away at the moment ,”added Lugalia.

Despite his team’s impressing him, he says they still need to improve more in their striking department.

“Our defence is doing great. All we need to work on is our attack. We need to kill off games easily and that is where we are putting our effort on during training,” stated the veteran tactician.