The Uganda rugby sevens team has started the Africa 7s title defence emphatically, defeating Algeria 45-07.
Pius Ogena marked his return in national colours by opening the score before Norbert Okeny also got on the scoreboard out wide.
Aaron Ofoywroth ran a maze, taking the defender inside out multiple times to score Uganda’s third try of the first half. Philip Wokorach converted two of the three.
Uganda was down to 6 for the last two minutes of the first half after returning Isaac Massa was sent to the sin bin for a late tackle.
Algeria used the man advantage to engineer a crosskick and score a full complemented try.
Quickfooted Adrian Kasito set Uganda off in the second half, pouncing on Algeria’s lackadaisical defence arrangements to go through the middle and score his first try of the weekend.
Straight off the bench, Alex Aturinda turned reinforcement into points, scoring two tries, with Mubarak Wandera also grabbing one for himself off a reclaimed restart.
Uganda will play Burkina Faso in their second game of the day, with the latter claiming a 12-12 draw in the weekend’s first game against the hosts Zimbabwe after leading 12-00 at some point in the game.
