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The Kenya \u00a0men\u2019s rugby sevens team finished sixth at the first leg of Rugby Africa Cup \u00a0after losing 19-28 to Zimbabwe in the fifth place play off final \u00a0of the championship at Labourdonnais Sports Grounds, Mapou,Mauritius.<\/strong><\/p>\n Enroute to the play off final Kenya had beaten Ivory Coast 22-5 in the semis while Zimbabwe saw off Mauritius 42-7.<\/p>\n Kenya had lost to South Africa in the quarter finals after finishing the groups in second position.<\/p>\n Uganda emerged champions after beating Madagascar 31-12 while South Africa beat Burkinafaso 35-7 to clinch Bronze.<\/p>\n Following the conclusion of the first leg Uganda sits top with 20 points while Madagascar is second two points adrift.<\/p>\n South Africa, Burkinafaso and Zimbabwe lie in third to fifth positions respectively.<\/p>\n The teams now switch their focus to the next weekend\u2019s second leg where two top finishers will qualify for next season\u2019s HSBC Challenger series.<\/p>\n Kenya and South Africa are not eligible for the promotion since they already secured their slots in the elite sevens world circuit.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Kenya finishes sixth in Rugby Africa Cup in Mauritius<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The Kenya \u00a0men\u2019s rugby sevens team finished sixth at the first leg of Rugby Africa Cup \u00a0after losing 19-28 to Zimbabwe in the fifth place play off final \u00a0of the championship at Labourdonnais Sports Grounds, Mapou,Mauritius. Enroute to the play off final Kenya had beaten Ivory Coast 22-5 in the semis while Zimbabwe saw […]<\/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-59745","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\/59745","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=59745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}