Rugby: Kenya out of Rugby World Cup Sevens

Kenya Sevens' hopes of replicating their 2013 semifinals feat at the 2022 Rugby Sevens World Cup ended in the round of 16 on Friday evening after losing 22-07 to Argentina at the Cape Town Stadium, South Africa.

Poor decisions and indiscipline cost Shujaa heavily after two of their players Johnstone Olindi and Samuel Oliech were sin-binned.
Olindi who features for KCB was the first to be sin-binned in the first half.

Shujaa, who had earlier beaten Tonga 19-0 in the preliminary round, found themselves trailing 15-0 at the break after conceding two tries from Tobias Wade and Joaquin De La Vega and a Matias Osadczuk penalty.

KCB's Vincent Onyala brought Shujaa back into the game after the restart with a try but Oliech, who added the extras was sin-binned again gifting the South Americans the numerical advantage.

Alejo Lavayen immediately punished Shujaa who ended up losing 22-7.

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Kenya will now play Scotland in the Challenge Trophy quarter-finals on Saturday at 1.37 pm.

Elsewhere, defending champions New Zealand reached the last four after knocking out Scotland 43-5 in the other round-of-16 duel.

Ireland stunned England17-5 to reach the quarter-finals alongside Samoa, who stopped the United States of America 40-12.