National rugby men 15s, the Kenya Simbas defeated Supa Barbarians in the ongoing build up matches in South Africa yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Jerome Paarwater side won 27-24 against their hosts in a match played at the Nylstroom Rugby Club in Limpopo in their penultimate match of the South African tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) is using the tournaments as part of their build up ahead of Rugby Africa Cup for 2027 Rugby World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kenya went ahead through Timothy Omela after converting his try for a 7-0 lead before Patrick Sabatia missed extras for the try to extended the lead to 12-0 but unconverted try for Barbarians were reduced to 12-05 but captain George Nyambua\u2019s unconverted try moved Simbas to 17-05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After break, Barbarians added a converted try for 17-12 then Andycole Omolo converted try made it 24-12 Barbarians converted try moved closer to 24-19 but Omela\u2019s penalty made it 27-19 as hosts uncoverted try moved to 27-24 for the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kenya started with a 17-all draw against SWD Eagles on June 3rd<\/sup>, lost to South Africa U20 24-42 then 19-75 in the second match, followed by a 62-22 victory over Tygerberg RFC and a 26-42 loss to Sanlam Boland and the Supa Barbarians 27-24 ahead of their final match against match tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" National rugby men 15s, the Kenya Simbas defeated Supa Barbarians in the ongoing build up matches in South Africa yesterday. The Jerome Paarwater side won 27-24 against their hosts in a match played at the Nylstroom Rugby Club in Limpopo in their penultimate match of the South African tour. Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) is using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2353,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-rugby"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kenya15s.jpg?fit=263%2C192&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92Nno-bTk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysport.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}