{"id":142339,"date":"2026-05-27T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/rugby-africa-womens-cup-lionesses-thump-madagascar-57-0-to-stay-on-course-for-the-title\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:02:46","slug":"rugby-africa-womens-cup-lionesses-thump-madagascar-57-0-to-stay-on-course-for-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/rugby-africa-womens-cup-lionesses-thump-madagascar-57-0-to-stay-on-course-for-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Africa Women\u2019s Cup: Lionesses thump Madagascar 57-0 to stay on course for the title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kenya Lionesses stormed to the top of the Rugby Africa Women\u2019s Cup Performance Division after a 57 \u2013 0 match day two win against Madagascar at the RFUEA Grounds in Nairobi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defending champions South Africa are second after a 47-20 defeat of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>After three days of rest after a 43-10 victory over Uganda, the national women\u2019s rugby team, the Lionesses dominated Madagascar over 80 minutes to earn a 57-0 win on match day two of the\u00a0\u00a0Rugby Africa Women\u2019s Cup Performance Division.<\/p>\n<p>Player of the match Stella Wafula, Nelly Chikombe, and Freshia Oduor scored two tries apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Faith Livoi, Knight Otuoma, Moreen Muritu, and Edith Nariaka scored one try each with Sinaida Nyachio adding two conversions and a penalty<strong>\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the day\u2019s opening match, South Africa defeated Uganda 47-20.<\/p>\n<p>After two round of matches, Kenya are joint top with South Africa but the hosts have a superior points difference of 90 against 86 for the Lady Boks.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament comes to close on Sunday as Madagascar face Uganda and Kenya play against South Africa in a title decider.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/rugby-africa-womens-cup-lionesses-thump-madagascar-57-0-to-stay-on-course-for-the-title\/\">Rugby Africa Women\u2019s Cup: Lionesses thump Madagascar 57-0 to stay on course for the title<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya Lionesses stormed to the top of the Rugby Africa Women\u2019s Cup Performance Division after a 57 \u2013 0 match day two win against Madagascar at the RFUEA Grounds in Nairobi. Defending champions South Africa are second after a 47-20 defeat of Uganda. After three days of rest after a 43-10 victory over Uganda, the [&hellip;]<\/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-142339","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\/142339","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=142339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}