The Kenya 7s rugby\u00a0 national\u00a0 team rebounded from their loss to the USA by securing\u00a0 convincing wins against Canada and Belgium at the Montevideo HSBC SNVS Div 2.<\/p>\n
In their third pool game at Estadio Charr\u00faa, Montevideo, Shujaa displayed their prowess with a decisive 20-0 victory over Belgium early on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Kevin Wekesa Nyongesa and Vincent Onyala Owino each scored a try, giving Kenya a 10-0 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n
After the break, Patrick Odongo Okong\u2019o and Floyd Wabwire added tries, ensuring a comprehensive win over Belgium.<\/p>\n
Coached by Kevin Wambua, the team had narrowly lost 10-14 to the USA in their opening match on Saturday but showed determination by defeating Canada 19-5 in their second match of Day 1.<\/p>\n
Chrisant Ojwang, Floyd Wabwire, and Kevin Wekesa Nyongesa were the try scorers for Kenya, with Nygel Pettersan Amaitsa converting two tries, while Ian Jones scored Canada\u2019s only try.<\/p>\n
Kenya is set to face group leaders Germany at 9:55 pm, followed by their final match against hosts Uruguay at 12:48 am tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Germany currently leads the group with 9 points, tied with the USA but with a better try difference, while Kenya is\u00a0 third place with 7 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kenya 7s rugby\u00a0 national\u00a0 team rebounded from their loss to the USA by securing\u00a0 convincing wins against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5558,5559,5560,375],"class_list":{"0":"post-7607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-hsbc-svns-2","10":"tag-kenya","11":"tag-montevideo","12":"tag-uruguay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116271883528879227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}