{"id":359807,"date":"2025-12-20T05:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:25:07","slug":"new-zealand-and-australia-qualify-son-of-all-black-great-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359807\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand and Australia qualify, son of All Black great shines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Day two of the Global Youth Sevens has seen more dominance from Australia, and New Zealand<\/a> have now joined the party with some strong wins.<\/p>\n

After Australia<\/a> dominated the trans-Tasman showdowns on day one with wins to the tune of 24-19 in the Boys grade and 27-21 in the Girls\u2019, the winning momentum was continued on day two.<\/p>\n

Australia U18 Boys made short work of NZ Fiji<\/a> Boys in the opening game of the day, claiming a 34-7 win. The team then backed up that effort with a 29-19 win over Tongan Barbarians, overcoming an early 19-7 deficit with much-improved discipline in the second period. A 21-17 victory over New Zealand Bucks, despite a two-man disadvantage, completed the day for Australia. Treyvon Pritchard<\/a> played another starring role in the day\u2019s results as the Aussies qualified for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

New Zealand U18 Boys put up a big score against Hawkes Bay<\/a> Saracens, with Matt Fleming\u2019s pace stealing the show for two tries. The win also qualified the Kiwis for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

The New Zealand U18 Girls ran up the scoreboard with 41 unanswered points against the NZ Fijian Girls, before claiming a 26-14 win over Pacific Tribe Queensland.<\/p>\n

Both New Zealand and Australia\u2019s girls\u2019 teams have games to play on Sunday morning before the semi-final matchups are confirmed.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the competition, the son of an All Black icon made some waves with his form. Taking after his father, Doug, Charles Howlett is starting to make a name for himself in the rugby world, adding to his growing reputation at the Global Youth Sevens this weekend.<\/p>\n

The youngster has been generating some hype for his flying pace with Auckland<\/a> Grammar in the schoolboy scene, the school his father once attended before becoming the leading try-scorer in All Blacks<\/a> history.<\/p>\n

Playing for the Grammar Tec Lions<\/a> this weekend, Howlett\u2019s electric pace made for quite the highlight on day two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day two of the Global Youth Sevens has seen more dominance from Australia, and New Zealand have now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-359807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}