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Kenya Lionesses whip Belgium and Uganda to storm into Challenger Series 2 semifinals in South Africa

Kenya Lionesses, the national rugby 7s women team beat Uganda and Belgium to qualify into the semifinals of the ongoing Challenger Series 2 in South Africa.

The Dennis Mwanja coached side has recorded unbeaten run with a 10-5 whipping of Uganda in their last pool A match into a sudden death following 5-5 draw in regulation time in their second match of the day.

Grace Okullo touched down first for Lionesses with her uncoverted try for 5-0 lead before Uganda responded with an unconverted try to level 5-5, forcing the match into sudden death.

In the period, Naomi Amuguni scored the deciding try to hand Kenya a slot into the semifinal tomorrow.

In the opening pool match, Kenya edged out Belgium 17-05 with Okullo  scoring a hat-trick.

She scored first for unconverted try for a 5-0 lead before making it 10-0 with another unconverted try and bagged a hat-trick with her third converted try for 17-0 at halftime.

On resumption, Belgium responded with a single unconverted try for 17-5.

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