{"id":228084,"date":"2026-03-23T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-kcb-rugby-shifts-focus-to-kenya-cup-playoffs-after-narrow-loss-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:13:54","slug":"uganda-kcb-rugby-shifts-focus-to-kenya-cup-playoffs-after-narrow-loss-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-kcb-rugby-shifts-focus-to-kenya-cup-playoffs-after-narrow-loss-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: KCB Rugby Shifts Focus to Kenya Cup Playoffs After Narrow Loss in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Kampala \u2014 KCB Rugby has shifted its focus to the crunch Kenya Cup playoffs next month following their 10-11 loss to Ugandan side Black Pirates in the Enterprise Cup quarterfinal played at Muteesa II Stadium in Wankulukuku.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The contest began with early nerves from the Pirates, who missed a penalty that could have handed them a quick advantage. However, Mukore Wayne soon steadied matters, calmly slotting a penalty to give Pirates a 3-0 lead and settle his side into the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Momentum swung&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603230347.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kampala \u2014 KCB Rugby has shifted its focus to the crunch Kenya Cup playoffs next month following their 10-11 loss to Ugandan side Black Pirates in the Enterprise Cup quarterfinal played at Muteesa II Stadium in Wankulukuku. The contest began with early nerves from the Pirates, who missed a penalty that could have handed them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":228085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6674,5759,21378,4688,430,9183,16485,257,17198,8495,5758,254,4707],"class_list":["post-228084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-focus","tag-kcb","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-narrow","tag-news","tag-playoffs","tag-rugby","tag-shifts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}