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The national women\u2019s sevens rugby team,Lionesses, lost to South Africa 19-10 in the final of the Africa Rugby Sevens Women\u2019s Championship held at University of Accra grounds,Accra,Ghana.<\/strong><\/p>\n Enroute to the final Kenya had beaten Uganda 19-0 in the semi final. In the group stages Kenya beat Madagascar 22-17,hammered Mauritius 61-0,saw off hosts Ghana 10-5.<\/p>\n In the quarter final Kenya beat Ghana 48-0.<\/p>\n\n Against South Africa Kenya went ahead \u00a0through Stela Wafula\u2019s uncoverted try but South Africa Women SpringBoks Ayanda Malinga touched down shortly after to level the scores.The two teams went to the breather tied 5-5.<\/p>\n On resumption Kenya regained the lead through Sharon Auma\u2019s try.But South Africa fought back scoring two \u00a0converted tries in the dying minutes to win the match 19-10.<\/p>\n\n Following the second place finish Lionesses assured themselves a place in next year\u2019s Challenger series which will see three Africa sides,Kenya,South Africa and Uganda\u00a0 battle for the honors in the global series, a qualification pathway for the World rugby sevens series.<\/p>\n Kenya Lionesses Squad:<\/strong><\/p>\n Sheila Chajira,Captain, Grace Adhiambo(Nakuru RFC), Christabel Lindo(Impala Roans), Stellah Wafula (Impala Roans), Judith Auma(Impala Roans), Faith Livoi(Mwamba RFC), Diana Awino(Impala Roans), Moreen Muritu(Nakuru RFC), Sinaida Mokaya, Diana Kemunto(Impala Roans), Sharon Auma(Impala Roans), Freshia Awuor (Nakuru RFC).<\/p>\n The post Lionesses seal Challenger series slot despite loss to South Africa<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Lionesses seal Challenger series slot despite loss to South Africa<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The national women\u2019s sevens rugby team,Lionesses, lost to South Africa 19-10 in the final of the Africa Rugby Sevens Women\u2019s Championship held at University of Accra grounds,Accra,Ghana. Enroute to the final Kenya had beaten Uganda 19-0 in the semi final. In the group stages Kenya beat Madagascar 22-17,hammered Mauritius 61-0,saw off hosts Ghana 10-5. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}