{"id":138450,"date":"2026-04-20T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kenya-pipeline-and-kcb-storm-africa-womens-volleyball-club-championship-semis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:02:52","slug":"kenya-pipeline-and-kcb-storm-africa-womens-volleyball-club-championship-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kenya-pipeline-and-kcb-storm-africa-womens-volleyball-club-championship-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Pipeline and KCB storm Africa Women\u2019s Volleyball club championship Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"

It will be an all Kenyan affair in the first semi final of the ongoing Africa Women\u2019s Volleyball Club Championship after both sides clinched their slots in the last four following their \u00a0respective quarter final victories in Cairo, Egypt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kenya Pipeline, bidding for their first championship \u00a0since 2005 stayed on course after defeating their fellow Kenyan outfit DCI 3-1.<\/p>\n

KPC delivered a commanding performance, taking control of the first set 25-17 before winning the second set 25-12 but lost the third set 21-25 setting the stage for a thrilling finish in the fourth set.<\/p>\n

With the semi final ticket at stake KPC dug deep,demonstrating their experience to defeat debutants DCI 25-16 and seal their place in the last four where they will square it off with KCB on Tuesday April 21st serving off at \u00a02pm East African time.<\/p>\n

Kenya Pipeline head coach Geoffrey Omondi<\/p>\n

Kenya Pipeline head coach Geofrey Omondi was ecstatic after the win expressing his optimism of clinching the trophy.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019I am happy with the semi final win.It was a tough one but we managed, the same way we are planning to manage the semi final duel against KCB \u00a0so that we qualify for the finals. We want to bring back home this trophy this time round.To our fans continue supporting us and we will not disappoint you\u2019\u2019Omondi remarked after the encounter<\/p>\n\n

Meanwhile 2022 Champions KCB moved a step closer to reclaiming their title after outwitting Cameroon\u2019s Mayo Kani Evolution in three straight sets to set a date with their domestic rivals Kenya Pipeline.<\/p>\n

A dominant KCB won the first set 25-15 and clinched the second 25-18.Despite resistance from Mayo Kani in the third set KCB inspired by the enterprising and talented prodigy outside hitter Marlyne Terry,middle blockers Mildred Cherop, captain Mercy Moim and Juliana Namutira \u00a0sealed the win with an emphatic 25-21 third set win.<\/p>\n

KCB middle blocker Mildred Cherop prepares to take a serve during their encounter against Mayo Kani Evolution<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019After playing high balls I resorted to fast balls that worked for us very well because we were able to evade the blocks from Mayo Kani.They had good blocks and we cannot underrate any team from Cameroon they are good, their defence on the net was very good but we managed to beat them\u2019\u2019 KCB head coach Japhet Munala remarked adding \u2018\u2019 Kenya Pipeline is a good team we have to strengthen our services as well as our net defence because they are very fast,so our net and back court defence has to be very good\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

KCB Marlyne Terry in action during the quarter final clash against Mayo Kani in Cairo<\/p>\n

Captain Mercy Moim praised the squads ability to serve superbly.\u2019\u2019Every department worked well,we worked well on our services we did not serve easy balls to give them an advantage,the blocks was also tight. We trust ourselves that we can defeat Pipeline,though we have not met this year in any competition we are going to prepare adequately ahead of the semi final on Tuesday\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

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It will be an all Kenyan affair in the first semi final of the ongoing Africa Women\u2019s Volleyball Club Championship after both sides clinched their slots in the last four following their \u00a0respective quarter final victories in Cairo, Egypt. Kenya Pipeline, bidding for their first championship \u00a0since 2005 stayed on course after defeating their fellow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}