2017 Schools beach soccer tournament:
Final game: Munta Royal College 4-1 Taggy High School
Other results:
- Munta Royal College 5-2 Nakatonya Islamic School
- Taggy High School 6-3 Nakatonya Islamic School
Individual awards:
Most Valuable Player (MVP): Ivan Mulema (Taggy High School)
Top Scorer: Bernard Higenyi (Munta Royal College)
Best Goalkeeper: Silver Lubangakeni (Munta Royal College)
Fair play award: Nakatonya Islamic School
Munta Royal College defeated Taggy High School and Nakatonya Islamic successfully defended the national schools beach soccer title at Lido beach in Entebbe.
The Bombo based school won all the matches at their disposal to finish with maximum points in a round robin format.
Munta defeated Nakatonya Islamic 5-1 before overcoming Taggy High Schools 4-1 in the second game.
Daniel Higenyi scored a hat-trick and another Higenyi entity Bernard had a brace against Nakatonya.
Amin Chapa and Ibrahim Haidar were on target for Nakatonya Islamic.
Against Taggy High School from Entebbe, Munta’s goals came from Benon Tagyemwa, Bernard Higenyi (2) and an own goal from January Waninga.
Prince Kanda scored the only goal for Taggy High school.
1978 Uganda Cranes legendary goalkeeper at the AFCON finals in Ghana, Paul Ssali was the chief guest as he handed over the trophy and certificates to the winning team and excelling individual players.
Uganda Beach Soccer Association (UBSA) officials led by delegate Anthony Tumwesigye, Phoebe Kutamba (league manager) and Sarah Birungi (General Secretary) attended the day long event.
All winners:
2012 – Wampewo Ntake SS, Kasangati
2013 – Namagabi SS, Kayunga
2014 – Namagabi SS, Kayunga
2015 – Namagabi SS, Kayunga
2016 – Munta Royal College, Bombo
2017 – Munta Royal College, Bombo
