Heyns Gives World Cup 7s Squad Golden Boost
SARU pulling out all the stops as Olympic heroine Penny Heyns with world cup-hero and High Performance GM Rassie Erasmus give the Springbok Women’s Sevens Squad the best motivation to pull out all the stops ahead of the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow later in June
Wannies Warns Against Underestimating Blitzbokke
Bullish Sevens coach Wannies warns Moscow Rugby World Cup Sevens round-robin opponents Ireland, China and defending champs Australia against underestimating a wounded Springbok side, who had suffered a white-wash of defeats in the final IRB World Series in Amsterdam
Top 12 for SA 7s World Series Final
Coach Denver Wannies picks his best 12 for South Africa for the IRB Women’s Sevens World Series concluding series in Amsterdam, starting Friday
Africa Success Boosts Springbok Women
SA to prepare for Netherlands-based Women’s Sevens World Series tournament in Cape Town after winning the Confederation of African Rugby tournament in Tunis last Saturday
Bulls Wreak Sevens Revenge on WP
The Blue Bulls conceded only 5 points through their entire campaign to lift the 2012 SARU Interprovincial Sevens cup on home soil at Loftus in Pretoria on Saturday, beating Western Province 28-0 in the final after whipping the Golden Lions 47-0 in the quarters, and KwaZulu-Natal 26-0 in the semis
Canada Beat SA U20 in Nations Cup Bronze Medal Play-Off
A weary South African U20 women’s rugby team will return home after their gruelling week in Santa Barbara, USA, with their final performance in the Nations Cup tournament ended a 32-5 loss to Canada, on Saturday, 23 July, 2011.
England Too Much for SA in U20 Nations Cup
For a moment it looked like the form books had it all wrong when the SA U20 fullback wriggled through the 2011 Nations Cup form side defence to sprint the remaining 70 metres and score in the opening minutes of the final round-robin match, but the ray of hope was soon dashed as the superior European side went on to maul the Africans 66-7, in Santa Barbara on Thursday, 20 July.
U20 Bokke Bravely Battle on in Santa Barbara
Canada opened first-half scoring with a try at the posts but failed to convert, and kicking left them down again when a penalty-kick was missed, but these gifts weren’t enough to salvage redemption as Canada went on to beat South Africa 27-7 in their second U20 Nations Cup match in Santa Barbara, on Sunday evening.