Kenya Sevens Team Drop To 12th After Dismal Vancouver Sevens Show

NAIROBI, Kenya- The Kenya national men's rugby sevens team dropped one spot to 12th in the World Rugby standings after picking just three combined victories in the North Americas tour of the series which culminated with the Vancouver 7s on Monday morning.

While they picked up two wins in the Los Angeles leg, Shujaa picked up just one win in Vancouver Canada, a resounding 28-0 victory over Wales in the ninth-place quarter finals.

In the Vancouver leg ninth-place semi, Alec Coombes, the same man who scored an extra time winner against Shujaa a week ago popped up once again to score the decisive try that gave the Scots victory in Canada.

Oscar Dennis had drawn Shujaa level with a try converted by Daniel Taabu after Harvey Elms had given the Scots the lead with a try converted by Gavin Lowe.

It was an indifferent performance from the earlier quarter final game against the Welsh where Shujaa showed the pace and power synonymous with them in the series to win 28-0.

Shujaa had four converted tries from Vincent Onyala, Jeff Oluoch, Collins Injera and Sammy Oliech, who also converted three of the tries while one was booted home by Injera.

Shujaa dropped out of Cup contention and into the ninth-place play-off after losing all their pool matches to New Zealand, Spain and Ireland.

The team will now return home for rest and recovery before they get back to work ahead of the European Tour that will take them to London and Paris, with head coach Paul Feeney looking to use these two tournaments to prepare for the Olympics.