{"id":10581,"date":"2012-05-06T12:52:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/rugby-strauss-powers-cheetahs-to-win-over-force\/"},"modified":"2012-05-06T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:52:21","slug":"rugby-strauss-powers-cheetahs-to-win-over-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-strauss-powers-cheetahs-to-win-over-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Strauss powers Cheetahs to win over Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa<\/span> May 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Cheetahs<br \/>\ncaptain Adriaan Strauss led a top-class forward effort as the<br \/>\nhosts beat the Western Force 17-13 in a Super Rugby match on<br \/>\nSaturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hooker scored a 54th-minute try to give the Cheetahs a<br \/>\n14-13 lead after a charge down and try by centre Winston Stanley<br \/>\nhad put Force 13-9 ahead shortly after halftime.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cheetahs dominated territory and possession and were<br \/>\neager to run at the Force who were let down by ill-discipline.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf Sias Ebersohn kicked three penalties and scrumhalf<br \/>\nTewis de Bruyn one for the Cheetahs, who gained consolation for<br \/>\ntheir heart-breaking loss last weekend when they surrendered a<br \/>\n30-9 lead to lose 36-33 to the Otago Highlanders.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Force flyhalf Dave Harvey kicked two penalties in the first<br \/>\nhalf but their joy at seeing left wing Samu Wara cross the<br \/>\ntryline in the left corner quickly turned to frustration as the<br \/>\nscore was disallowed due to foul play by prop Salesi Ma&#8217;afu who<br \/>\nheld an opponent in a headlock and slapped him.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ebersohn, who missed crucial kicks for the Cheetahs last<br \/>\nweekend, kicked the resulting penalty and was spot-on again in<br \/>\nthe 19th and 37th minutes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Force took the lead six minutes after halftime when<br \/>\nCheetahs fullback Hennie Daniller took his time over a clearance<br \/>\nkick, which was charged down by Stanley who gathered the ball<br \/>\nand scored.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the visitors paid again for their ill-discipline when<br \/>\nobstruction by Harvey and dirty play by prop Pek Cowan when he<br \/>\nhauled airborne flank Heinrich Brussow out of a lineout led to a<br \/>\npenalty close to the tryline for the Cheetahs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The concerted pressure of the forwards&#8217; driving play<br \/>\neventually led to the space outside for Strauss to score.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cheetahs&#8217; final points came after a penalty had been<br \/>\nadvanced 10 metres after the Force kicked the ball away after<br \/>\nthe whistle. The extra 10 metres brought the kick into range for<br \/>\nEbersohn who succeeded from the halfway line.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa May 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Cheetahs captain Adriaan Strauss led a top-class forward effort as the hosts beat the Western Force 17-13 in a Super Rugby match on Saturday. The hooker scored a 54th-minute try to give the Cheetahs a 14-13 lead after a charge down and try by centre Winston Stanley had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}