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Giants South Africa gets hard earned victory against Uganda in HSBC World Rugby Sevens opener

William Kasoba by William Kasoba
December 1, 2017
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The HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series have kicked off this morning in Dubai and our boys who are in pool C having put a fair display in their opener against giants South Africa.

Despite the boys having a sloppy start thus falling 14-00 at halftime, they managed to pull back some tries in the second half through the usual suspects Solomon Okia and Phillip Wokorach. The game ended 19-10 hence South Africa getting a hard earned victory.

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In the other game of Pool C, rival neighbours Kenya attained a comfortable 29-15 win against Canada thus enlightening their chases of finishing in the top two places of the pool. In a few minute at around 1:14PM local time, the boys will be back on the field for game two against Canada.

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