Lady Cranes lost 24 – 00 to South Africa in the finals of the World Cup qualifiers but will still travel to Dubai together with the Springboks to represent Africa at the inaugural IRB Women’s 7’s World Cup in March 2009. Lady Cranes made history as the first Ugandan sports team to qualify for a World Cup.
Lady Cranes started off their world cup campaign with dominant displays over Zimbabwe (30 – 00) and Botswana (48 – 00) before falling 12 – 05 to Tunisia. The Ugandan women were guilty of squandering their chances as they spent the first half camped in the Tunisian 22. They also failed to take advantage of their superior numbers when the Tunisian captain was yellow carded in the second half for a cynical foul. The Tunisians instead capitalized on mistakes from the Ugandans to score two tries and top the pool.
On the other hand, South Africa easily dispatched Uganda A (43 – 00), Zambia (31 – 00), and Kenya (34 – 05) to lead pool A. The top 4 teams were reseeded after the pool games according to number of games won and tries scored with South Africa going into the semifinals as top seeds, Tunisia second, Uganda third and Kenya fourth. The main cup/plate semifinals had South Africa taking on Kenya, and Uganda taking on Tunisia in what was a replay of the final games of the pool stages.
South Africa thumped Kenya 26 – 05 in the first semi final while Uganda edged Tunisia 07 – 00.
Other results:
Bowl/Shield semi-finals: Zambia beat Uganda A 26 – 10, while Zimbabwe beat Botswana 17 – 00.
Shield final: Uganda A beat Botswana 20 - 07.
Bowl final: Zambia beat Zimbabwe 38 – 00.
Plate Final: Kenya beat Tunisia 15 – 14.
Main Cup final: South Africa beat Uganda 24 – 00.
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