{"id":8783,"date":"2012-03-11T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-blues-floor-bulls-thanks-to-anscombes-29-points\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T01:04:09","slug":"rugby-blues-floor-bulls-thanks-to-anscombes-29-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-blues-floor-bulls-thanks-to-anscombes-29-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Blues floor Bulls thanks to Anscombe’s 29 points"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PRETORIA, South Africa, March 10<\/span> (Reuters) – Gareth
\nAnscombe scored all his team’s points as the Auckland Blues beat
\nthe Bulls 29-23 in their Super Rugby match on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The flyhalf, making his first start in the competition,
\npicked up two tries, two conversions and five penalties to help
\nthe Blues record their first win at Loftus Versfeld since 2003.<\/p>\n

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The home team were left to rue the poor form of their
\nusually reliable flyhalf Morne Steyn who missed two conversions
\nand two penalty attempts.<\/p>\n

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“The Bulls put us under a lot of pressure in the first half.
\nIn the second we couldn’t afford to play in our own half and it
\nwas a matter of taking the chances when they came our way,”
\nBlues captain Keven Mealamu said.<\/p>\n

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

“There is a lot of belief among the boys and it’s a matter
\nof keeping our heads down now and working.”<\/p>\n

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

The Blues endured a rocky start to their campaign, losing
\ntheir first two matches, but Anscombe made his mark against the
\nBulls in the second minute when he scooped up a loose pass on
\nthe halfway line before outstripping the defence.<\/p>\n

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

The 20-year-old converted his try before booting a 50-metre
\npenalty but in the 13th minute the visitors were reduced to 14
\nmen when lock Ali Williams was yellow-carded for deliberately
\ncollapsing a maul.<\/p>\n

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

Two minutes later the Bulls took advantage of their
\nnumerical superiority when Pierre Spies barged his way over for
\nan unconverted try.<\/p>\n

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

Anscombe and Steyn traded penalties but the Blues ended the
\nhalf 20-8 up after the visiting flyhalf collected his second try
\nby rounding off a sparkling move that started deep in his own
\nterritory.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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PRETORIA, South Africa, March 10 (Reuters) – Gareth Anscombe scored all his team’s points as the Auckland Blues beat the Bulls 29-23 in their Super Rugby match on Saturday. The flyhalf, making his first start in the competition, picked up two tries, two conversions and five penalties to help the Blues record their first win […]<\/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-8783","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\/8783","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=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}