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After winning a silver medal in the half-marathon and bronze in beach tennis, Kenya’s hopes of a gold medal went up in smoke after a beating by Namibia in the semifinals of the women beach volleyball competition.

With the teams evenly matched at 2-2 in the first set, it looked like we had a match on our hands. It soon went south for the hosts who fell to 8-3, then 11-3 before the first technical time out.

On resumption, Cape Verde could not hold their serve and Kenya cruised to 17-4, 20-5 before easily taking the set 21-6.

The second set took a similar path with Kenya racing to a 6-1 lead, seemingly in a hurry to wrap up the match.

Cape Verde had not settled and fell 9-2 before calling a time out.

This helped as on resumption, they gained three points against Kenya’s one to move to 10-5. Before the next time out, they conceded six points to Kenya and gained only one for 15-2 at the second time out.

Kenya went on to wrap up the set 21-11, 2-0 for the match to bag the bronze medal.

Kenya finished with three medals at the Africa beach games in Sal, Cape Verde Islands.  

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