AFRICA RUGBY CUP 1C: Nigeria’s Black Stallions Rake In nine Tries In 61-10 Victory Over Swaziland

BLACK STALLIONS IN ACTION

Nigeria scored nine times as a number of players laid impressive markers in a 61-10 victory over Swaziland in Gaborone, Botswana on Wednesday.

Back line; Christian Ogar, Azeez Ladipo, Yusuf Oyeyemi, Oladipo Olawale, Samson Yahaya and Dozie Dinobi all raced home, while the efforts of forwards; Azeez Olanrewaju, Emmanuel Godwin, Hafis Ayinla and Abubakar Yakubu will not have gone unnoticed as Nigeria claimed their first victory at the on-going Africa Rugby Cup 1C.

The Black Stallions battled a highly spirited Swaziland team at the UBC Stadium.

Christian Ogar opened scoring with a well worked try which saw and over 10 passes made before he touched down for a try.

Azeez Ladipo converted 8 out of 9 tries and also got a try for himself. Swaziland later scored one try which was well converted.

Meanwhile Mauritius beat Zambia 54-17 in the second game of the day while Impala Rustenburg from South Africa whitewashed host Botswana 54-9 to end a day of fantastic rugby.

Nigeria will now meet the South Africa’s Cell C community cup champions Impala Rustenburg who replaced Morocco in their last game on Saturday.

At the completion of all the matches, the Teams are ranked one through six based on their cumulative Match points, and identified respectively as winner, runner-up, third, fourth, five and six

NIGERIA’S NATIONAL RUGBY TEAM-THE BLACK STALLIONS

Africa Rugby Cup 1C: Zambia Pip Nigeria’s Black Stallions 30-20

Black Stallions Captain Azeez Ladipo introduces players to dignitories

After match day 1 in the African Cup 1C, in Gaborone, Botswana, the Black Stallions of Nigeria lost to Zambia by 20-30. The game which was tagged the match of the day by commentators and rugby fans saw the Black Stallion forwards impose themselves on the Zambians but the back line could not contain them.

The Zambians drew first blood in the early stage of the game with two tries, the black stallions found their rhythm and retaliated with two tries by Christian Ogar and Fasimoye olatunji.

Nigeria fly half, Azeez Ladipo traded penalties with the Zambian fly half to keep the game level 13-13 at half time.

The Zambians dominated early in the second half of the game trenching the Back Stallions back line which paid off with a try.

Azeez ladipo launched an attack by setting up Samson Yahaya for another try to draw level at 20-20. The Zambians nicked it in the final third with 2 late tries to end the game at 30-20.

Other games saw Impala defeat Mauritius. 67 – 17 and Bostwana demolished Swaziland 87 – 0.

Speaking after the game Fasimoye olatunji said that “It was not a bad game for a new team, and that the players are now determined to go on to do well in subsequent games.

The Black Stallions will now take on Swaziland on Wednesday 18th June 2014 in their second game of the African Rugby Cup IC.

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