Blak Blad have finished third in the Impala Floodlit tournament following a come-from-behind 21-19 victory at Impala Club.
Both sides were keen to end the campaign on a high after falling at the semifinal stage, Impala losing to Nondies and Blad bowing out to Menengai Oilers.
Blak Blad trail
The hosts opened the scoring through a penalty by Quinto Ongo early in the game before Blak Blad embarked on a fightback. After several patient carries, Obat Kuke crossed over, and Enock Oduor converted to hand Blad a 7-3 lead.
The lead was cut almost immediately as Impala won a penalty that Ongo converted to take their tally to six points.
Oduor extended Blad’s lead with a penalty after a sustained attack inside Impala’s 22, pushing the score to 10-6.
Ongo responded after 24 minutes of play, cutting the deficit to just one point with another successful penalty to make it 10-9.
Six minutes later, Ongo missed his first kick of the day, but Impala won a scrum deep in Blad’s 22. They made good use of their backline, moving the ball swiftly to find Derrick Kinyari, who dived over for a try to give Impala a 14-10 lead after Ongo’s missed conversion.
The teams headed into the halftime break with only four points separating them.
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Impala came from the break and struck again off a scrum, with outside centre Moses Matonda producing a blistering run to score a try that pushed Impala to 19 points.
Blak Blad would later punish Impala for an error inside their own tryline, as a handling mistake allowed Blad to ground the ball and move to 15 points.
Blad added three more points through Oduor to trim the gap to a single point, though he later missed a penalty that would have given them the lead.
Minutes later, Oduor finally put Blad ahead with another successful kick but failed to extend the advantage after missing a subsequent penalty that would have made it a five-point gap.
In the dying minutes, Ongo missed a chance to reclaim the lead for Impala with a penalty, and another late miss saw Blak Blad survive to clear their lines and seal third place in the 2025 Impala Floodlit tournament.
