Platinum Credit Heathens have won the 2024 Nile Special Rugby (Men’s) Championship. WATCH: captain Micheal Wokorach hoists the Championship trophy. 🥳🇺🇬🏉🔥🏆 They beat Stanbic Black Pirates, 15-13, in the Playoffs Final at Kyadondo Rugby Club on Saturday evening.
There could not have been a more deserving champion. Heathens finished the regular season unbeaten and on top of the table; scoring the most tries and conceding the least of all teams on their way to the final. They led on the scoreboard for nearly the entire match.
Heathens trailed briefly after Pirates kicked the first points of the match in the seventh minute. Heathens’ charge for the title was led by forwards. Emmanuel Byamugisha and Joaquim Chisano score their two tries in the first half.
Malcolm Okello slotted a conversion and penalty for them to stay ahead. However, Pirates gave them a run for their money and nearly pulled off a huge upset. Led by flyhalf Ivan Magomu who breached Heathens’ first line of defence three times in similar fashion, Pirates scored two tries through their wingers Roy Kizito and Jeremiah Okello in the second half.
TRY TIME ! Two tries in two minutes from Roy Kizito and Jeremiah Okello bring the Sea Robbers within just two points of . What a sequence! 🔥🏉🇺🇬 The Sea Robbers may have fallen short by just two points but they got a round of applause from all fans present for playing in such an entertaining final. Unfortunately, the match was not short of plot.
