Despite going down 21-19 to South Africa in the HSBC SVNS Perth 7s final, the Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s team remains at the top of the points table with 70 points.<\/p>\n
The Blitzbokers started the final strong, scoring two converted tries through Ryan Oosthuizen and Sebastiaan Jobb to take a 14-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Fiji\u2019s first try came from speedster Vuiviawa Naduvalo, slicing through South Africa\u2019s defence to reduce the gap to 5-14. <\/p>\n
Captain Jerry Matana added another try for Fiji, leaving them trailing 12-14 at half-time.<\/p>\n
Fiji came back firing in the second half, with halfback Terio Veilawa busting through the Blitzbokers\u2019 defence and running straight under the posts to give Fiji a 19-12 lead.<\/p>\n
Oosthuizen scored his second try for South Africa in the corner, with Ricardo Duarttee converting from wide to reclaim the lead.<\/p>\n
Fiji tried their best to break through South Africa\u2019s defence but were penalised in the final moments, allowing the Blitzbokers to secure the win.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, South Africa are second on the points table with 66 points, followed by New Zealand in third with 62 points.<\/p>\n
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Kick-off: Fiji<\/p>\n
1′ Try to South Africa. Ryan Oosthuizen. FJ 0-7 SA<\/p>\n
4′ Try to South Africa. Sebastiaan Jobb. SA 14-0 FJ<\/p>\n
5′ Try to Fiji. Nice step from Viwa Naduvalo and uses his speed. FJ 5-14 SA<\/p>\n
7′ Try to Fiji. Captain Jerry Matana. FJ 12-14 SA<\/p>\n
HT: FJ 12-14 SA<\/p>\n
8′ Try to Fiji. Nice strong fend off from Terio Veilawa. FJ 19-14 SA<\/p>\n
10′ Try to South Africa. Ryan Oosthuizen. FJ 19-21 SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite going down 21-19 to South Africa in the HSBC SVNS Perth 7s final, the Fiji Airways Men\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[154318,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-273834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-feature-perth-7s","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}