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St Anthony’s Boys Kitale hockey forward Peter Wachira. [Washington Onyango, Standard]

For decades, the ground at St Anthony’s Boys Senior School Kitale has been an incubator for hockey legends.

However, echoes of missing trophies have haunted the corridors of East Africa’s most successful schools’ boys hockey empire for years. Having endured three years of defeat at the national finals, St Anthony’s, christened Les Titans, finally broke their shackles in Kisumu this year to recapture the title they had last won in 2022.

In Kakamega last year, St Anthony’s came close but fell short after finishing second behind Uganda’s Kakungulu Memorial in the round-robin contest.