Rugby: Kabras Sugar warm up for KCB with win over Blak Blad

Kabras Sugar RFC player William Diffu in action against Kisumu RFC in a past Kenya Cup match. [Washington Onyango, Standard]

South African fly-half Ntabeni Dikusa bagged a hat-trick of tries as Kabras Sugar thrashed visiting university side Blak Blad RFC 57-3 to register their fifth win of the season a one sided Kenya Cup match staged at Kakamega Showground on Saturday.

The Kenya Cup runners up notched five tries in the opening half to lead 43-0 before adding four more after the restart and head coach Henley Du Plessis could not agree more how the victory will impact their next match against defending champions KCB.

“The win today was important for us as we gear towards our biggest match of the season against KCB.   The boys needed this and now we are going back to training to work out our defense and offense considering the bankers threat,” he said.

Former Kenya Sevens scrumhalf Brian Tanga opened the scoring in the 15th minute after being fed by Fijian ace Jone Kubu with the latter adding two points from the tee for a 7-0 lead.

Outside centre Timoci Senaite would then dance through Blad’s midfield to assist Dikusa dot his first of the day and Kubu adding the extras that saw them hit the 14-point mark

The 2016 champions would then go 21-0 up after Tanga combined with Dikusa from a scrum, with the South African sprinting for his brace and Kubu landing his third conversion.

Kabras would then bag their bonus point try with Lawrence Buyachi assisting Senaite for his first of the day before Paul Abuto added a fifth try as the sugar men went to the break leading 33-0.

After the restart, Brian Juma joined the scorer’s lists together with substitute Felix Ayange in quick succession to take the scores to 43-0.

Barry Robinson would then send the millers past the 50-points mark before Fijian Senaite offloaded to Dikusa to complete his hat-trick and final try of the match.

The victory saw the millers maintain their top spot with 25 points from five wins.

Kabras will now play record champions KCB next weekend.

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