Simba striker, Jean Baleke has scored the first hat-trick in the Premier League this season and enabled his team to win 3-0 against Mtibwa Sugar in the game played at the Manungu Complex Morogoro Stadium.

Baleke, who joined the team in the small window of January from Nejmeh FC of Lebanon, scored all the goals in the first half in the 3rd, 7th and 36th minutes.

Baleke's hat-trick is the sixth in the Premier League this season while the other stars who scored were Fiston Mayele (Yanga) against Singida Big Stars on November 17 last year, John Bocco scoring two starting with Ruvu Shooting on November 19, last year and then Tanzania Prisons December 30, last year.