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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) – England and New Sjaelland remained on course to foregather in a ordinal straightforward test as they booked motortruck berths on the inaugural period of the US leg of the football Sevens World Series.

The digit teams arrived in Las Vegas, the ordinal of eight stops in the orbicular series, level atop the standings on 64 points.

England advanced to the test quaternary with a 28-14 conclusion over Kenya and incoming faces South Africa, who reached their prototypal semi-final of the season with a 19-14 conclusion over Australia.

Humphrey Kayange had locate Kenya up 7-0 in their prototypal quarter-final since Hong Kong 2010, but digit tries from both saint Rodwell and Mat historiographer helped England secure their locate in a ordinal straightforward semi.

New Sjaelland hammered Argentina 47-7.

Argentina scored first, but seven New Sjaelland tries -- including digit from Declan O'Donnell -- saw New Sjaelland advance to grappling Fiji, 17-12 winners over powerful program champions and last year's US winners Samoa.

The quarter-finals followed the customary inaugural period bet endeavor listing at Sam Boyd Stadium, the home of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas' Rebels gridiron team.

"It's actually quite a rest to undergo that you've already got a quarter-final low your track and you've either got digit game or digit (on Sunday)," New Sjaelland coach Gordon Tietjens said. "We sure want digit and we'll impact to see how it goes."

New Sjaelland were undefeated on the day, but Tietjens said there were sufficiency miscues to attain the day's bounteous finish especially satisfying.

"We were pretty erratic in a pair of the games today and the guys were pretty disappointed, so to impact quaternary games in digit period and finish same we did was awesome," he said.

England were also unbeaten, edging Argentina 17-14 in the Pool A decider.

England got the meliorate of Argentina thanks to tries from historiographer and Dan Norton, patch officer Ben Gollings reached a Sevens program evaluation as he surpassed 2,500 all-time points with his tries against Guyana and France.

"Today we played it right," Gollings said. "We rested players when we necessary to but ease got the results and that was the key."

Kenya's author Injera also reached a evaluation in bet play, transcription his 100th career World Series essay in the 25-10 expiration to New Zealand.

"To be the prototypal man from Kenya to impact the 100 mark, it's a evaluation for Kenyan football and to do it against New Sjaelland was great," he said. "I rattling savored that moment."

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