{"id":10738,"date":"2012-05-26T22:09:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/rugby-western-force-overhaul-lions-17-11-in-perth\/"},"modified":"2012-05-26T22:09:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T20:09:25","slug":"rugby-western-force-overhaul-lions-17-11-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-western-force-overhaul-lions-17-11-in-perth\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Western Force overhaul Lions 17-11 in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">May 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Western Force pushed the visiting Lions<br \/>\none step closer to the wooden spoon by winning their Super Rugby<br \/>\nmatch 17-11 in Perth on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Force trailed 8-3 at halftime after an early try to Lions<br \/>\nwinger Michael Killian but scored two tries after the break to<br \/>\npost their third win of the season after 14 weeks of the<br \/>\nsouthern hemisphere provincial competition.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Lions suffered their 11th loss of the season but cobbled<br \/>\na bonus point by finishing within seven points courtesy of a<br \/>\npenalty kick after the siren by replacement back Ruan Combrinck.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Force captain David Pocock drew the Force level by barging<br \/>\nover near the posts in the 58th minute and winger Napolioni<br \/>\nNalaga sealed the win in the 71st with his team&#8217;s second try<br \/>\nshortly after Lions flanker Derick Minnie was shown a yellow<br \/>\ncard.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Johannesburg-based Lions remain two points behind the<br \/>\nsecond-bottom Auckland Blues in their battle to avoid the wooden<br \/>\nspoon.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ian Ransom in Melbourne; Editing by Mark Meadows;<br \/>\nian.ransom@thomsonreuters.com; +61 3 9286 1447; Reuters<br \/>\nMessaging: ian.ransom.reuters.com@reuters.net. For the Reuters<br \/>\nsports blog Left Field go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/sport\">blogs.reuters.com\/sport<\/a>;<br \/>\nPlease double-click on:; for more rugby stories)<\/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>May 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Western Force pushed the visiting Lions one step closer to the wooden spoon by winning their Super Rugby match 17-11 in Perth on Saturday. Force trailed 8-3 at halftime after an early try to Lions winger Michael Killian but scored two tries after the break to post their third win of [&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-10738","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\/10738","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=10738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}