{"id":11789,"date":"2012-06-23T23:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T21:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-england-avoid-series-whitewash-with-draw-in-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-06-23T23:45:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T21:45:51","slug":"rugby-england-avoid-series-whitewash-with-draw-in-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-england-avoid-series-whitewash-with-draw-in-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-England avoid series whitewash with draw in S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, June 23<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; England<br \/>\navoided a series whitewash when they battled to a 14-14 draw<br \/>\nwith South Africa in the third and final test on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The visitors ended a nine-match losing streak against the<br \/>\nSpringboks as they secured only the second draw between the two<br \/>\nteams.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scrumhalf Danny Care notched the only try for England while<br \/>\nflyhalf Toby Flood kicked one penalty and his replacement Owen<br \/>\nFarrell booted two more.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hosts responded with a try from wing JP Pietersen and<br \/>\nthree penalties from Morne Steyn but the flyhalf did not enjoy<br \/>\nhis best day with the boot as he missed two penalties and one<br \/>\nconversion attempt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa took a 14-11 lead in the 62nd minute when<br \/>\nPietersen touched down before Farrell kicked a penalty with<br \/>\neight minutes left.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Writing by Jason Humphries, editing by Tony Jimenez)<\/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>PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, June 23 (Reuters) &#8211; England avoided a series whitewash when they battled to a 14-14 draw with South Africa in the third and final test on Saturday. The visitors ended a nine-match losing streak against the Springboks as they secured only the second draw between the two teams. Scrumhalf Danny Care [&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-11789","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\/11789","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=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}