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The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua pulled off an impressive victory in their Shop N Save Super Rugby clash against the Western Force after beating them 24-22 at Churchill Park in Lautoka.<\/p>\n
The Drua had a shaky start after flanker Etonia Waqa was sent to the sin bin early, just metres from their own try line.<\/p>\n
The visitors capitalised immediately, scoring from a rolling maul off a lineout, with prop Misinale Epenisa crossing over to give them a 7\u20130 lead.<\/p>\n
The Drua gradually worked their way into the Force\u2019s half and, following a series of pick-and-drive phases, prop Haeriti Hetet powered over to level the scores at 7\u20137.<\/p>\n
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After a strong defensive spell over the next 20 minutes, the Drua struck again.<\/p>\n
A well-executed set piece saw fly-half Isaiah Armstrong-Ravula dive over, handing the hosts a 14\u20137 advantage.<\/p>\n
Quick hands and slick passing then led to another try, with fullback Isikeli Rabitu finishing off a flowing move to extend the lead to 19\u20137.<\/p>\n
The Force responded strongly after the break, scoring in the right corner from a scrum set piece to narrow the margin to 19\u201312.<\/p>\n
They continued to apply pressure and crossed again in the 58th minute, cutting the deficit to just two points at 19\u201317.<\/p>\n
Momentum briefly swung back to the Drua when debutant winger Isikeli Basiyalo intercepted a pass in the 60th minute and raced away to score, extending the lead to 24\u201317.<\/p>\n
However, the Drua were soon reduced to 14 men after winger Ilaisa Droasese was shown a yellow card.<\/p>\n
The visitors took advantage, scoring from another driving maul off a lineout close to the line to bring the score to 24\u201322.<\/p>\n
The Force had a late chance to snatch the lead with a long-range penalty attempt from beyond the 50-metre mark, but the kick sailed wide.<\/p>\n
The Drua held firm in the closing moments, defending resolutely until the final hooter to secure the hard-fought victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: FILE] The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua pulled off an impressive victory in their Shop N Save Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-375792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375792","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=375792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}