{"id":6702,"date":"2023-10-09T05:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/involvement.co.ke\/?p=6702"},"modified":"2023-10-09T05:10:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T05:10:42","slug":"daystar-falcons-crowned-kings-of-africa-university-7s-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/daystar-falcons-crowned-kings-of-africa-university-7s-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Daystar Falcons Crowned Kings of Africa University 7s Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>Photo courtesy of Uganda Rugby Instagram<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Daystar Falcons were crowned champions of the 2023 King&#8217;s of Africa University 7s held at the Makerere University In Uganda on Sunday October 9.<\/p>\n<p>Falcons had a great run in the tournament winning in all of the four rounds they participated in to be crowned champions.<\/p>\n<p>The Daystarians opened the action against Makerere University who had the home advantage but Falcons proved too hot for the hosts to handle, blitzing them 31-05.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Falcons was Kyambogo who suffered a similar fate to Makerere University, falling 34-05 to the on-fire Daystarians.<\/p>\n<p>Round 3 saw Falcons pitted against fellow Kenyan team, Kenyatta University. KU put up a spirited fight to push Falcons all the way but the Daystarians were not to be outdone as they narrowly edged the fellow Kenyans 14-10.<\/p>\n<p>The final Round saw Daystar pitted against yet another fellow Kenyan team in USIU. Falcons run riot against USIU easing past them in a 32-07 thrashing.<\/p>\n<p>That excellent run of games saw the Daystarians crowned champions of the 2023 King&#8217;s of Africa University 7s on foreign soil.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda Rugby Union President, Godwin Kayangwe was present at the tournament to hand Daystar Falcons the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo courtesy of Uganda Rugby Instagram] Daystar Falcons were crowned champions of the 2023 King&#8217;s of Africa University 7s held at the Makerere University In Uganda on Sunday October 9. Falcons had a great run in the tournament winning in all of the four rounds they participated in to be crowned champions. The Daystarians opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[387],"class_list":["post-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-falcons-news","tag-daystar-falcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}