SA-National-TeamsBanyana Banyana bowed out of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after going down 2-1 to host nation Morocco in the quarter-finals on Saturday evening. Th grudge encounter took some time to get going as the first chance in anger went the way of the host nation when a floating cross from the right found Sanaa Mssoudy, who nodded agonisingly wide of the top corner. At the other end, Banyana pushed forward in response to the threat and very nearly came close to making the breakthrough when star player Thembi Kgatlana carved out some space outside the area and skinned the top of target. The Atlas Lionesses showed a level of decisiveness just past the half-hour mark after Sakina Ouzraoui capitalised on a teasing cross from right of the area and dinked the ball over goalkeeper Kaylin Swart to put the host nation ahead. Coach Desiree Ellis instituted fresh set of legs to engineer a route back from the two-goal set-back 12 minutes into the second stanza and removed Robyn Moodaly-Salgado to summon in Amogelang Motau.