Return leg Elgon Cup

Ok. I've neglected the blog yet again. For the return leg of the Elgon cup: Lady Cranes departed on 8th July at 9am and were involved in a nasty bus accident in Jinja. By some miracle everyone in the bus survived and apart from some knocks and bruises there were no serious injuries so the players opted to continue with their journey to Nairobi. Another bus picked them up and they arrived in Nairobi on 9th July at 4am.

Both the women's coaches opted to abandon the women at the 11th hour. URU was unaware that the coaches were not travelling and therefore had not made plans for a replacement. Come match day the Lady Cranes took to the pitch coachless but determined to win. We started off well and kept the Kenyans pinned in their half for the first 20 minutes of the game. Good enough along the way, former Lady Cranes 7s coach, David Mutaka (Mutaks) stepped in to help - it was tough for him as he didn't know three quarters of the players but he did a great job considering. However, we lost steam and the Kenyans got back into the game. We lost 16 - 8 (try by Emmanuella Oroma and penalty by Christine Kizito). And lost the Elgon Cup for the second running on aggregate (21 - 16).