Reigning EWBL leaders Only Jesus Christ Saves (OJCS) women’s basketball team has dethroned Pantheras from the top of the Eldoret Women’s Basketball League (EWBL), a position they had held on to briefly. 

OJCS has now opened a narrow two-point lead with 10 points against Pantheras, ranked second on 8 points, according to the latest league ranking results released yesterday by EWBL official Kenneth Chemwok. 

OJCS led by player cum coach by Purity Mosoti, overran Calvary Ladies, 43-33 during the game that propelled the team to the EWBL pole position, played at Holtmann and Kelly Arena basketball court in Eldoret City. 

Mosoti and her outstanding charges, Cynthia Elim, Juliet Moraa, Velma Wanjiku and Joy Cherono, defeated Calvary Ladies 11-7 during the first quarter of the game. 

OJCS proceeded to win the second quarter of the game 17-11 against the Calvary Ladies basketball team, Sydney Orwenda, Patricia Euppa and Barnes Shahale, who stridently tried to reverse the triumphant team’s march forward. 

Undeterred, OJCS players continued to run circles against their opponent team, Calvary Ladies, bagging the game’s third quarter 12-6. 

However, Calvary Ladies players playing under the tutelage of Bob Casper, stunned OJCS during the fourth quarter, winning 7-3, though Calvary’s spectacular last gasp effort was not enough to reverse OJCS’s surge to the top of the EWBL table standings, with a slim two-point lead against dethroned second-placed Pantheras with 8 points. 

Third-placed Bhadie Yankees basketball team has equally chalked a similar  8 points to Pantheras, albeit with an inferior Points For (PF) 159 and Points Against (PA) 162, compared to Pantheras’ superior PF and PA of 267 and 207, respectively. 

Calvary Ladies occupy the fourth spot on the EWBL table standings, having collected 6 points, while the Cheptil Knights basketball team, which is newly registered and joined the league, also has 6 points. 

And, Storm Baddies basketball team the 2024 -EWBL champions, having been steered to victory to clinch the league title by the team’s 3 gold medalist winner as Most Valuable Player (MVP) Sylvia Masese, fondly known as Maseh, within the Eldoret Basketball fraternity, who also won two other medals, has tumbled and is ranked at the bottom of the league with a paltry 5 points.