{"id":12003,"date":"2012-07-01T00:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/rugby-brumbies-fend-off-force-to-go-top-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2012-07-01T00:06:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:06:01","slug":"rugby-brumbies-fend-off-force-to-go-top-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-brumbies-fend-off-force-to-go-top-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Brumbies fend off Force to go top in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 30<\/span> (Reuters) – The ACT Brumbies rocked the Western
\nForce with four first-half tries before clinging on for a 28-17
\nvictory on Saturday to move back ahead of the Queensland Reds in
\nthe race for the Australian Super Rugby conference title.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The Reds had pulled level with the Brumbies with a win in
\nMelbourne on Friday but the Canberra-based side secured the
\nall-important bonus point before halftime and held off a
\nspirited Force fightback in the second period.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The Force had been hoping to give lock Wallabies Nathan
\nSharpe a winning farewell in his final home match before
\nretirement but a brace of tries from winger Nick Cummins and
\nanother from lock Toby Lynn proved too little, too late.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“I thought the way we played in the first half is what we’re
\ncapable of and we’ve just got to make sure we do it more often,”
\nBrumbies skipper Ben Mowen said in a pitchside interview.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“We take away five points from Perth, which is not easy to
\ndo, and we move on to the next one.”<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Brumbies winger Jesse Mogg opened the scoring after only two
\nminutes, fending off Force skipper David Pocock and rounding the
\nlast defender to score in the corner.<\/p>\n

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Prop Ben Alexander was the next to cross nine minutes later
\nwhen he bulldozed through the Force defence and when flyhalf
\nZack Holmes converted the Brumbies were 12-0 ahead.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Pocock’s customary fine work at the breakdown stymied a
\ncouple of Brumbies attacks but winger Henry Speight dived across
\nthe line in the 29th minute and Holmes added the fourth after
\ncutting through the home defence with a neat sidestep.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The Force came out firing after turning around 22-0 down and
\nstarted to throw the ball around to great effect with Cummins
\nfinishing well for tries in the same corner in the 43rd and 51st
\nminutes.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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June 30 (Reuters) – The ACT Brumbies rocked the Western Force with four first-half tries before clinging on for a 28-17 victory on Saturday to move back ahead of the Queensland Reds in the race for the Australian Super Rugby conference title. The Reds had pulled level with the Brumbies with a win in Melbourne […]<\/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-12003","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\/12003","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=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}