SA women’s water polo side suffers another heavy defeat at World Aquatics Championships

The South African women’s water polo team suffered another heavy group stage defeat at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

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The women’s side went down 24-2 against Italy on Tuesday.

The scores by quarter were 2-1, 7-0, 7-1, 8-0.

The SA women’s side lost by the identical scoreline to Greece in their opening match on Sunday.

The scores by quarter in that match were 7-1, 6-1, 6-0, 5-0.

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In two matches to date the SA women’s side have scored four goals while conceding 48.

The SA women’s side will conclude their Group C commitments against Argentina on Thursday at 09:00 (SA time).

They may well fancy their chances against Argentina who have lost 27-1 to Italy and 21-2 to Greece to date.

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Meanwhile, the SA men’s side lost 35-10 to Montenegro on Monday.

The scores by quarter were 6-1, 10-0, 9-5, 10-4.

The SA men’s side will next play Serbia on Wednesday at 16:00 (SA time) and will wrap up their Group D commitments against Spain on Friday at 10:30 (SA time).

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.