{"id":5876,"date":"2011-12-04T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/south-africa-tie-for-third-going-into-port-elizabeth-clashes\/"},"modified":"2011-12-04T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T15:53:28","slug":"south-africa-tie-for-third-going-into-port-elizabeth-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africa-tie-for-third-going-into-port-elizabeth-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Tie for Third Going into Port Elizabeth Clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>As Dubai champions, England top pool A in South Africa and face a tough trio of matches against Dubai Cup semi-finalists Argentina, Bowl runners-up USA and Shield winners Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>France reached a first World Series Cup final since 2005 in Dubai. As Cup runners-up, they top Pool B in Port Elizabeth and will play pool matches on day one against reigning World Series and SA Sevens champions New Zealand, Dubai Bowl winners Scotland and African qualifiers Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji head Pool D and will play Wales, Portugal and the remaining African side in the draw, Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Following their win in Dubai, England climbed to second in the HSBC Sevens World Series standings, seven points behind Gold Coast champions Fiji.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The World Series Standings after round 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiji 39 points;<\/li>\n<li>England 32;<\/li>\n<li>South Africa, New Zealand, France 29<\/li>\n<li>Australia 28;<\/li>\n<li>Argentina, Wales 23.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The pool draw for the Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa Sevens is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pool A: England, Argentina, USA, Samoa<\/li>\n<li>Pool B: France, New Zealand, Scotland, Morocco<\/li>\n<li>Pool C: South Africa, Australia, Canada, Kenya<\/li>\n<li>Pool D: Fiji, Wales, Portugal, Zimbabwe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The confirmed Port Elizabeth training venues for the 16 teams are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Argentina \u2013 Cille High School, Uitenhage Road, Sidwell<\/li>\n<li>Australia \u2013 Framesby High School, Cornelia Avenue, Framesby<\/li>\n<li>Canada \u2013 Gelvandale Stadium, Gelvandale<\/li>\n<li>England \u2013 Westering High School, Papenskuil Street, Westerling<\/li>\n<li>Fiji \u2013 Nelson Mandela Bay University, North Campus, Summerstrand<\/li>\n<li>France \u2013 Pearson High School, Jenvy Road, Summerstrand<\/li>\n<li>Kenya \u2013 Newton Technical High School, 92 First Avenue, Newton Park<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand \u2013 Nelson Mandela Bay University, North Campus, Summerstrand<\/li>\n<li>Portugal \u2013 Zwide Stadium, Tonjeni Street, Kwazakhele<\/li>\n<li>Morocco \u2013 Newton Technical High School, 92 First Avenue, Newton Park<\/li>\n<li>Samoa \u2013 Londt Park Sports Club, Ralston Road, Fernglen<\/li>\n<li>Scotland \u2013 PE College, Kemsley Park, Mount Croix<\/li>\n<li>South Africa \u2013 <a title=\"Victoria Park High School\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/S_,045_From_Saddles_to_Synthetics\/Schools_,045_Primary_and_Secondary\/victoria_park_high_school_531.html\">Victoria Park High School<\/a>, Victoria Park Drive, Walmer<\/li>\n<li>United States \u2013 Kemsley Park, Mount Croix<\/li>\n<li>Wales \u2013 DF Malherbe High School, Walmer B-field<\/li>\n<li>Zimbabwe \u2013 Nelson Mandela Bay University, Missionvale Campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/91702_loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>\u00a0Loading &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Dubai champions, England top pool A in South Africa and face a tough trio of matches against Dubai Cup semi-finalists Argentina, Bowl runners-up USA and Shield winners Samoa. France reached a first World Series Cup final since 2005 in Dubai. As Cup runners-up, they top Pool B in Port Elizabeth and will play pool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-5876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"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\/5876","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}