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Yesterday BoysUpper Hill (Ken)         0-3     APE Rugunga          (Rwa)                                                                                                                           Girls Lycée de Makamba (Bur)     0-3     Solidarity Academy    (Rwa)St Mary’s Kitende   (Uga)     1-2     G.S Remera Rukoma (Rwa) Rwanda’s schools representing the country in football won their opening matches at this year’s East African Post-Primary Games (FEASSA), which kicked off on Saturday at Prince Louis Rwagasore stadium in the Burundian capital Bujumbura.APE Rugunga kicked off the good luck charm for the country’s representative teams with a 3-1 win over Kenya’s Upper Hill in football boy’s category.And it was all smiles for the girls’ teams as Solidarity Academy beat Burundi’s Lycee de Makamba 3-0, before G.S Remera Rukoma saw off St. Mary’s Kitende of Uganda 2-1.The championship includes seven disciplines namely, football, basketball, volleyball, handball, netball, rugby and athletics and hockey but Rwanda has no hockey representatives.The Rwandan delegation, which is led by the director of sports in the Education Ministry Paterne Rwigema, arrived in Bujumbura on Thursday. The country is being represented by 19 teams, that will compete in six sports categories; football, basketball, volleyball, netball, handball, athletics and rugby.The country is represented by G.S Remera-Rukoma and Solidarity Academy (girls’ football), APE Rugunga and ESEG Gisenyi (boys’ football), G.S Indangaburezi (volleyball girls), G.S.O.B and Lycee de Nyanza (volleyball boys), St. Joseph Kabgayi (basketball girls), ETENI Gisenyi and lycée de Kigali (basketball boys).Others are; APAPEGI Gicumbi (handball girls), E.S Kigoma and College de Gisenyi (handball boys), G.S Gahini (handball), while ISETAR Kamonyi will compete in the boys’ rugby fray.