Three victories and two defeats leave Spain third in Nairobi

The Spanish women’s rugby 7 team has been third of the Nairobi tournament, first stage of the second division of the World Series, at the end of a weekend that began with two narrow losses against South Africa and Argentina but ended with victories over China, Brazil and Kenya.

Spain’s first two matches in the Kenyan capital were set up identically: an early advantage for the ‘Lionesses’ who suffered a comeback from their rivals in the final moments, as happened against the south africanwho tied through Liske Lategan with two minutes remaining and won thanks to the transformation of Nadine Roos (12-14).

María García Gala and Abril Camacho gave the Spanish team a twelve-point advantage against Argentina, which they reduced on the stroke of half-time through María Brígido. They conceded García’s double at the beginning of the second half but took the victory thanks to the late attempts by Talia Rodich and Sofía González, who put the goal with a cornered conversion. 17-19 final.

At the close of business on Saturday, Spain debuted its record of victories against Chinawhich he suffocated with a superb defense and punished with three marks after recoveries from the oval planted by María García Gala, Denisse Gortázar and Anne Fernández de Corres (21-0).

Already in the morning session on Sunday, against Brazil, Thalia Costa overtook the South Americans with a solo gallop but the Spanish reaction was dazzling and the marks of Carmen Miranda Miralles -2-, García Gala, Marta Fresno and Alba Capell sealed a comfortable victory (29-21).

The closing of the tournament, in front of the hostessesit was a very close match in which Kenya took the lead through Freshia Oduor, Abril Camacho responded on the stroke of half-time with a powerful start around a ‘ruck’ and Gortázar put the icing on the cake in the second half (14-5).

Argentina, with 13 points, is the winner of this first tournament, followed by South Africa (12) and Spain (11), which mark distances over China, Kenya and Brazil, which close the classification at the end of the first stage.