World Aquatic Championships: SA women’s water polo side to play Canada

The South African women’s water polo team ended their group stage campaign on a winning note at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan on Thursday.

The side beat Argentina 12-9.

The scores by quarter were 2-2, 5-3, 2-2, 3-2.

The SA women’s side had lost their two earlier Group C matches convincingly, going down by the same scoreline of 24-2 to both Italy and Greece.

The side will now face Canada – who were runners-up in Group D – in the playoffs on Saturday, 22 July at 11:30 (SA time).

The winner of that match will go on to face the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, while the loser will drop into the playoff bracket for ninth to 12th places.

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Meanwhile, the SA men’s side lost 30-5 against Serbia on Wednesday.

In their opening match on Monday, the SA men’s side lost 35-10 to Montenegro.

In two matches to date the SA men’s side have scored 15 goals while conceding 65.

The SA men’s side will wrap up their Group D commitments against Spain on Friday at 03:30 (SA time) in what is likely to be another heavy defeat for South Africa with Spain having beaten both Serbia and Montenegro to date.

SA WATER POLO SQUADS

WOMEN

Olufunke Gando, Shakira January, Nicola MacLeod, Meghan Maartens, Tumi Macdonell, Chloe Meecham, Boati Motau, Hannah Muller, Megan Sileno, Kelsey Thomson, Anna Thornton-Dibb, Ruby Versfeld, Esihle Zondo

MEN

Ignardus Badenhorst, Manqoba Bungane, Dylan Cronje, Joshua Faber, Todd Howard, Cameron Laurenson, Lwazi Madi, Gareth May, Chad Roman, Ross Stone, Jonathan Swanepoel, Dane Tucker, Sven van Zyl, Niall Wheeler

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