{"id":45317,"date":"2020-03-09T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/shujaa-drop-to-12th-after-vancouver-outing\/"},"modified":"2020-03-09T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:30:06","slug":"shujaa-drop-to-12th-after-vancouver-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/shujaa-drop-to-12th-after-vancouver-outing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shujaa drop to 12th after Vancouver outing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrap\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Kenya men&#8217;s national sevens team, Shujaa, are down to 12th after the sixth round of the 2019\/2020 HSBC Sevens World Series, the Canada Sevens which was held at the B.C Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada this past weekend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Shujaa collected 6 points after exiting the tournament at the 9th place semifinal stage, going down 12-7 to Scotland. They had reached this stage after beating Wales 28-0 in the 9th place quarterfinal. They have earlier collected 3 points at the Los Angeles leg played a week earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team had earlier failed to qualify for the cup competition, finishing bottom of Pool C after losing their three matches, 29-0 to eventual tournament winners New Zealand, 14-12 to Ireland and 17-14 to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>With four rounds left, Shujaa are placed 12th overall with 35 points.<\/p>\n<p>View the full standings <a href=\"https:\/\/kru.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0a418588340c9039e3ff982b5&amp;id=204b43a742&amp;e=534e1bb65e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3cKvXqA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3cKvXqA<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Kenya Rugby Union (KRU).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Rugby@APO-opa.com\">Rugby@APO-opa.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/shujaa-drop-to-12th-after-vancouver-outing?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kenya men&#8217;s national sevens team, Shujaa, are down to 12th after the sixth round of the 2019\/2020 HSBC Sevens World Series, the Canada Sevens which was held at the B.C Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada this past weekend. Shujaa collected 6 points after exiting the tournament at the 9th place semifinal stage, going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[23323,258,256,2462,7431,257,19684,16184,254,19683],"class_list":["post-45317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-12th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-drop","tag-news","tag-outing","tag-shujaa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}