Defending champions of the African Club volleyball championship KCB topped their pool after annihilating Salitgue of Senegal 3-0 in their last pool match on Tuesday.
The bankers will today know their opponents in the quarterfinals but their victory in straight sets of 25-11, 25-13 and 25-15 rekindled the team's hope of successfully defending their title in Tunisia.
KCB team’s technical advisor Paul Bitok extolled the girls for their resilience but challenged them not to rest on their laurels.
“We are taking it one match at a time and we will treat our round of 16 fixture as any other match. We don’t want to underrate any team in the knockout stage because if we stumble, we fall,” Bitok emphasized, adding: “We’ll continue to focus on the next two matches (round of 16 and quarters) and see how it goes.”
The former KCB attacker and Kenya international - who savored a stint in Tunisia and Croatia- expressed gratitude for the team’s new players Juliana Namutira and Esther Mutinda.
“Namutira is combining well with Mercy Moim. Barasa and Mutinda are also playing well. Our weakness has always been the reception, which is now working out very well,” Bitok observed.
He added; “We are now playing faster than ever before. Moim is still a great player and a mentor to youngsters; her experience is playing out in the team’s setup. She continues to push the team to greater heights".
