The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s team secured a hard-fought 15-12 victory over South Africa in their final pool match, surviving a tense encounter to finish on top.<\/p>\n
South Africa’s discipline proved costly early in the game when one of their players received a yellow card in the third minute.<\/p>\n
Fiji quickly capitalized on the numerical advantage, with Apete Narogo crossing the line in the fourth minute to give his side a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n
South Africa responded strongly a minute later, scoring their opening try to take a narrow 7-5 advantage.<\/p>\n
Fiji regained control before halftime through George Bose, who finished off an impressive team move after sustained possession from the restart. <\/p>\n
His try gave Fiji a 10-7 lead heading into the break.<\/p>\n
In the second half, Vuiviawa Naduvalo showcased his blistering pace, sprinting nearly 100 metres to score Fiji’s third try and extend the lead.<\/p>\n
Fiji then faced a stern challenge when Isaia Drumu was shown a yellow card, handing South Africa a numerical advantage.<\/p>\n
The Boks launched several attacks on the Fijian try line in the closing stages, but Fiji’s defence held firm, forcing a crucial turnover in the final seconds to seal a thrilling 15-12 victory.<\/p>\n
Fiji will play South Africa in the quarter final\u00a0scheduled to begin at 1.52am tomorrow, the semi finals on Sunday, with the finals at 3.41am on Monday.<\/p>\n
In other results Great Britan defeated Kenya 14-5, New Zealand defeated Argentina 24-21 and France edged Germany 14-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s team secured a hard-fought 15-12 victory over South Africa in their final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[234928,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-463977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bordeaux-7s","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463977","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=463977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}