The Ashanti football team being introduced just before the kickoff. They beat Greater Accra 4-1 today
The Prempeh website has been in Sunyani covering the inter-regionals sports festival
which began earlier this week and ends on Saturday, September 3.
The games have been dominated by Ashanti Region in all sporting categories, thanks to the
athletic prowess of Prempeh and Yaa Asantewaa Girls.
Prempeh's headmaster, Mr. Owusu-Achiaw, who is the Vice-Chairman of Inter-Collegiate Sports, invited us to
come to VY Gyabaah's homeland to cover the event for our people worldwide.
Here at Sunyani, the people's reception of prempeh.org has been very inspiring. Everywhere that
we've appeared in Ghana, the people -- Amanfoo and non-Amanfoo alike -- have been to our site, and this place is no different.
The line-up of the great Ashanti football team.
One such big fan of our website is Derick "Aliemo" Sarpong, the Owarean great who is the reigning National Basketball Player
of the Year, who came to fraternise with us and show us how much he admires our work. He said he's stunned that we travelled all the way to Sunyani to cover
an event that is only partially related to Prempeh. According to Aliemo, he checks our website at a cafe every afternoon with his Prempeh friends.
He came to us at a time when Prempeh's Mr. Lartey, who's in charge of
Ashanti's athletics team were bragging to the other schools about the Prempeh website and teasing his colleague Orlando (Owarean sports master),
who approached us with a special message for "our visionary webmaster."
Prempeh boys in action for the Ashanti Region.
The Ashanti team looks like a Prempeh team because they wear the Prempeh colours. In fact, had it not been for the name "Ashanti" emblazoned on the front of the shirts,
one could be forgiven for thinking that the Ashanti stars borrowed Prempeh College jerseys for all the sporting events. This is obviously not surprising because the official colours of the
Asante Kingdom -- green, gold and black -- which these jerseys illuminate, are the exact colours King Prempeh II bequeathed to Prempeh College.
In soccer, Prempeh's 6 soccer players on the Ashanti team helped
Ashanti beat Greater Accra 4-1 in the semi finals today.
On August 30, Ashanti also beat Northern Region 5-1 in a match in which Prempeh's Ebenezer Amoah scored a goal.
However, they lost to a powerful Central Region team by 2 goals to nil the following day, which did not affect their
chances of making it to the semifinal to face Greater Accra.
The Ashanti basketball team which includes 4 Prempeh players.
This is the same tough Central Region that is the province for soccer powers like
Winneba Secondary Schools (Prempeh's challengers in the
national Milo soccer final), Potsi Gomoa (the school that eliminated Prempeh in the 2004 national Milo tournament) and the
famous Aggrey Memorial School soccer team.
The Ashanti team, which includes 6 Prempeh boys, 3 Owareans, an OKESS goalkeeper and a few players from Asanteman, Kumasi High and Kumasi Anglican will face the Central Region again
in the soccer final on Saturday. The Central Region boys are extremely difficult to beat.
In our opening match on August 29th, Ashanti defeated host Brong Ahafo 2-0, with goals scored by former Prempeh captain Martin Osei Nyarko (Apio).
In athletics, Eric Goloe had his day as he dominated his 100 meter heat in the last event of the day. Earlier in the week, Prempeh's Atiso won
the gold medal for the 1500 meter race.
Atiso wins the 1500 meter race.
Stay tuned for more photos and interviews, especially photos of some very pretty YAGSS athletes, and more stories.
