Mixed results as second tier Championship league kicks off
KRU Championship league kicked off with an unpredicted outcome when only one host won as two-time Kenya Cup champion Mean Machine kicked off on a 27-20 losing note at home while fellow varsity side USIU-A was defeated 17-15 by visiting pirates.
The most recently relegated sides from the Kenya Cup league registered mixed results when Western Bulls shut newly promoted Kabarak University 29-0 while Kisumu fell 13-23 to nationwide champions and newly promoted Shamas Foundation who kicked off their campaign on the winning lane.
Western Bulls took command of the new standing's courtesy of a fiery thriller, while Shamas foundation was placed second and followed closely in third by Catholic Monks.
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The two hosts were not spared the upsets as last season semifinals Northern Suburbs lost by a point to University of Eldoret who won by three penalties while Egerton University conceded three tries and a conversion against Eldoret RFC in a match they could not score a point at their own
backyard to lose 17-0.
