{"id":8300,"date":"2012-02-25T02:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-1-rugby-steyn-kicks-all-the-points-in-bulls-victory\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T02:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:33:26","slug":"update-1-rugby-steyn-kicks-all-the-points-in-bulls-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-rugby-steyn-kicks-all-the-points-in-bulls-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Rugby-Steyn kicks all the points in Bulls victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PRETORIA<\/span> Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Flyhalf Morne Steyn<br \/>\nkicked five penalties and a drop goal to take the Bulls to an<br \/>\n18-13 victory over the Sharks in an all-South African Super<br \/>\nRugby match at Loftus Versfeld on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Neither side got on to the scoreboard in a first half marred<br \/>\nby scrappy play, poor handling and a lack of attacking vision.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the interval, the Bulls started to physically dominate<br \/>\nthe breakdown with Steyn converting all five of his penalties in<br \/>\nthe space of 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, the Bulls still showed little ambition on attack,<br \/>\npreferring to use up-and-unders from Steyn and the brilliant<br \/>\nchasing and aerial skills of wing Bjorn Basson.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Steyn also used the time and space given to him by his<br \/>\nstrong driving forwards to stroke over a 68th-minute drop goal<br \/>\nthat gave the Bulls a healthy 18-6 lead.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sharks managed just two penalties from flyhalf Pat<br \/>\nLambie in the first 70 minutes, but began to keep ball in hand<br \/>\nfar more effectively during the closing stages as they stretched<br \/>\nthe Bulls.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They scored the only try of the match when wing Lwazi Mvovo<br \/>\nmade a strong run down the right and replacement flanker Jacques<br \/>\nBotes provided the support to complete the try, which was<br \/>\nconverted by Lambie.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds quotes) By Ken Borland PRETORIA Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Flyhalf Morne Steyn kicked five penalties and a drop goal to take the Bulls to an 18-13 victory over the Sharks in an all-South African Super Rugby match at Loftus Versfeld on Friday. Neither side got on to the scoreboard in a first half marred [&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-8300","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\/8300","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=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}