Cape Town – South Africa scored a well-taken 25-5 win over Australia in the quarter-finals of the Cape Town leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series at the Cape Town Stadium, in Green Point, on Sunday.
South Africa’s Blitzbokke looked far more composed on Sunday although their cause was helped by a rather inept performance by Australia’s Thunderbolts who managed the first try in the match though Pama Fou in the third minute but then surrendered the initiative and trailed 15-5 at halftime.
Among the SA try-scorers was Seabelo Senatla who scored his 100th World Sevens Series try. The Blitzbokke’s other tries were scored by Justin Geduld, Phillip Snyman, Juan de Jongh and Kwagga Smith.
None of the six tries in the match were converted.
Last weekend, the Blitzbokke defeated Australia in the Dubai Sevens Plate final after extra time in which speedster Francois Hougaard scored the decisive sudden death try to round off a 19-14 win.
Earlier on Sunday, the French scored a shock 17-14 win over the Dubai champions Fiji even though they finished the match with only six players, in the first of Sunday’s Cup quarter-final clashes.
Results at hand:
Bowl quarter-finals: Scotland 26-14 Samoa, Wales 21-12 Zimbabwe, Canada 55-0 Russia, England 49-7 Portugal
Cup quarter-finals: Fiji 14-17 France, South Africa 25-5 Australia
– African News Agency (ANA)