{"id":6312,"date":"2025-07-19T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6312\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:39:09","slug":"boks-lead-after-hard-fought-first-half-against-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6312\/","title":{"rendered":"Boks lead after hard-fought first half against Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia stunned the Boks with an early score from a driving maul in the opening five minutes, but the world champions took it on the chin, got their legs back and scored four unanswered tries on the trot.<\/p>\n<p>Two of those came from Van der Merwe, one of three players making their Test debut in the match, while another debutant, Boan Venter, opened the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Canan Moodie also finished in style following a blistering break by scrumhalf Grant Williams. Unfortunately Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu missed the first three conversions.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Scorers:<\/p>\n<p>Springboks (22) \u2013 Tries: Boan Venter, Marnus van der Merwe (2), Canan Moodie. Conversion: Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia (10) \u2013 Try: Vano Karkadze. Conversion: Luka Matkava. Penalty goal: Matkava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georgia stunned the Boks with an early score from a driving maul in the opening five minutes, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","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=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}