South Africa wins the USA 7’s – Fiji 14-24 South Africa
South Africa have overcame Fiji by a score of 24-14 to win the USA Sevens in Las Vegas and take their first HSBC Sevens World Series Cup title since April 2009.
South Africa won an opening victory on day two against joint Series leaders England in the Cup semi finals at the Sam Boyd Stadium and then proved too strong for Fiji in the final.
With Cecil Afrika back from injury and at his inspirational best, the Springbok Seven were 19-0 to the good inside five minutes after tries by Afrika, Chris Dry and Branco du Preez.
Watisoni Votu hit back for Fiji before the break and Matieli Nacagilevu’s try made it 19-14 in the second half but Bernardo Botha’s score made the victory safe.
Cup Semi Finals
England 10 – 17 South Africa
New Zealand 7 – 26 Fiji
The four Cup quarter finals was played at the end of day one for the first time.
Results Cup quarter finals:
England 28-14 Kenya
New Zealand 47-7 Argentina
Fiji 17-12 Samoa
South Africa 19 – 14 Australia
DAY 2 Results | |||
KENYA | 15 – 26 | SAMOA | Final Plate |
CANADA | 14 – 19 | SCOTLAND | Final Bowl |
UNITED STATES | 19 – 12 | JAPAN | Final Shield |
SOUTH AFRICA | 24 – 14 | FIJI | Final Cup |
SAMOA | 26 – 14 | ARGENTINA | SF Plate |
KENYA | 24 – 21 | AUSTRALIA | SF Plate |
SCOTLAND | 17 – 12 | WALES | SF Bowl |
FRANCE | 14 – 22 | CANADA | SF Bowl |
JAPAN | 24 – 7 | GUYANA | SF Shield |
URUGUAY | 7 – 27 | UNITED STATES | SF Shield |
FIJI | 26 – 7 | NEW ZEALAND | SF Cup |
ENGLAND | 10 – 17 | SOUTH AFRICA | SF Cup |
WALES | 54 – 0 | GUYANA | 1/4 final Bowl |
SCOTLAND | 28 – 7 | JAPAN | 1/4 final Bowl |
UNITED STATES | 15 – 19 | CANADA | 1/4 final Bowl |
FRANCE | 19 – 12 | URUGUAY | 1/4 final Bowl |
England and New Zealand are currently joint top of the standings with 64 points, ahead of Samoa (52), Fiji (44) and South Africa (32), and the two teams have met in the two previous finals in New Zealand and South Africa.
Day 1 ResultsFIJI | 35 – 10 | AUSTRALIA | Pool C |
FRANCE | 57 – 7 | GUYANA | Pool A |
SAMOA | 7 – 7 | SOUTH AFRICA | Pool D |
KENYA | 28 – 7 | URUGUAY | Pool B |
NEW ZEALAND | 26 – 5 | WALES | Pool B |
ENGLAND | 17 – 14 | ARGENTINA | Pool A |
AUSTRALIA | 31 – 14 | CANADA | Pool C |
FIJI | 31 – 14 | SCOTLAND | Pool C |
SOUTH AFRICA | 35 – 0 | JAPAN | Pool D |
SAMOA | 28 – 12 | UNITED STATES | Pool D |
WALES | 33 – 10 | URUGUAY | Pool B |
NEW ZEALAND | 25 – 10 | KENYA | Pool B |
ARGENTINA | 47 – 0 | GUYANA | Pool A |
ENGLAND | 33 – 14 | FRANCE | Pool A |
SOUTH AFRICA | 27 – 5 | UNITED STATES | Pool D |
SAMOA | 31 – 7 | JAPAN | Pool D |
AUSTRALIA | 12 – 7 | SCOTLAND | Pool C |
FIJI | 33 – 0 | CANADA | Pool C |
WALES | 12 – 19 | KENYA | Pool B |
NEW ZEALAND | 40 – 0 | URUGUAY | Pool B |
ARGENTINA | 21 – 19 | FRANCE | Pool A |
ENGLAND | 49 – 0 | GUYANA | Pool A |
UNITED STATES | 24 – 7 | JAPAN | Pool D |
ENGLAND | 28 – 14 | KENYA | 1/4 final Cup |
NEW ZEALAND | 47 – 7 | ARGENTINA | 1/4 final Cup |
FIJI | 17 – 12 | SAMOA | 1/4 final Cup |
SOUTH AFRICA | 19 – 14 | AUSTRALIA | 1/4 final Cup |
SA fell asleep in last minute of QF
USA have the same “fugly” DHL logo as the Stormers.
Lions MTN Logo not much better either.
When the Lions and Stormers play in CT next week it’s going to be the “battle of the yellow blobs”.
Corporate ID se Mooooer.
@ Scrumdown:
If i see a logo as ugly as that on a shirt i feel like i will boycott the brand, unless it is my favorite beer 😆
South Africa now playing England in the Semi Final will update
England 5 – 0
England 10-0
England 10-0 Half Time
England 10-7 SA
SA 14- 10 ENG
SA 17-10 ENG
South Africa won 17-10 to reach their first final of 2011
Fiji 7 – 0 NZ
Half time score Fiji 14-0 NZ
Fiji 19 – 0 NZ
Fiji 19-7 NZ
Fiji 24-7 NZ
Fiji win 26 -7 New Zealand
Hello superBul, hows it going your side? Only got to see a bit of the second half of the Ireland France game, looked like that was quite a close on. Looking good here for the Blitz Boks, quite a comeback in the 2nd half going by the score.
Hi Bullscot,
It was a great fightback by the Boks. Fiji ran NZ to pieces. We must hope they overdid it. NZ was totally outplayed, a shock for me.
@ Bullscot:
The France v Ireland game was a humdinger. France was kept in the game by Parra, he was deadly with the boot. Ireland scored 3 tries to 1 and was the better team for me. Handling errors was their downfall.
Header of a article about the France game says it all
Defending champion France have fed off sloppy errors from Ireland to claim victory in Dublin and join England on maximum points.
Thanks for the summaries, don’t get to see any sevens rugby and only see the 6 nations because it is broadcast on BBC, don’t have that pay TV we get here. So thats two weeks in a row the French have leaked 3 tries, maybe this game put our performance against France into perspective, ie. the French are maybe not that good, at this rate England will cruise against them.
@ Bullscot:
you know what they say about France, if a very big IF they arrive with their A game they can beat anyone on Earth.
But that England wing is red hot , what is his name again?
He can turn any game on his head in seconds.
@ superBul:
Yeah who knows which French team will pitch up on the day. The wing is Chris Ashton, he’s some player, powerful and fast, and plays with a bit of arrogance that some don’t like but often is a hallmark of top players.
By the way I saw that the Blue Bulls Vodacom team lost yesterday to a Namibian Team, what’s happening there man?
@ Bullscot:
Our structures does not work 😆 no i hear we have not appointed a new coach yet in place of Serfontein. Somebody is standing in there and it is not a good thing.
FRANCE 14 – 22 CANADA – SEMI FINAL BOWL
Would you call this a shock result?
URUGUAY 7 – 27 UNITED STATES – SF Shield
JAPAN 24 – 7 GUYANA – SF Shield
SCOTLAND 12 – 7 WALES 2nd Half SF Bowl
@ superBul:
Well then we better our structure structured again 🙂 Hopefully will get the coaching side of things sorted soon.
Sorry to jump about a bit but back to England, I think a big reason for their success the last 2 games is the play of Toby Flood, we has improved almost beyond recognition from the player I watched a few seasons ago, he really gets the backline going and his goal kicking is not too shabby either.
SCOTLAND 12 – 12 WALES 2nd Half SF Bowl
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