{"id":64806,"date":"2024-07-12T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/hard-fighting-chipu-beaten-by-usa-in-world-u20-trophy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:03:08","slug":"hard-fighting-chipu-beaten-by-usa-in-world-u20-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/hard-fighting-chipu-beaten-by-usa-in-world-u20-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard fighting Chipu beaten by USA in World U20 trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Under 20 Rugby team hopes of earning a promotion to the World Rugby Under-20 championship were dashed after losing all their group matches at the World Under 20 Trophy in Scotland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The team today lost their final group B match 30-17 to United States in their last group B, to finish fourth in the group.<\/p>\n<p>The team opened their campaign on a sour note, losing 25-7 to Uruguay before being beaten 51-3 by the Netherlands in their second encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The team will now fight for seventh place position on Wednesday next week against a team that will finished fourth in Pool A.<\/p>\n<p>The World Rugby Under-20 Trophy 2024 has brought together eight teams fighting for promotion to the World Rugby Under-20 Championship 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is participating in the event for the third time after hosting the championship in 2009 and last year.<\/p>\n<p>The team qualified for the global event after winning the Rugby Africa Under-20 Barthes Trophy in April this year in Harare, Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/hard-fighting-chipu-beaten-by-usa-in-world-u20-trophy\/\">Hard fighting Chipu beaten by USA in World U20 trophy<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 National Under 20 Rugby team hopes of earning a promotion to the World Rugby Under-20 championship were dashed after losing all their group matches at the World Under 20 Trophy in Scotland. The team today lost their final group B match 30-17 to United States in their last group B, to finish fourth in [&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-64806","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\/64806","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=64806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}