{"id":9007,"date":"2012-03-17T03:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T01:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-pietersens-17-points-carry-stormers-to-victory\/"},"modified":"2012-03-17T03:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T01:15:56","slug":"rugby-pietersens-17-points-carry-stormers-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-pietersens-17-points-carry-stormers-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Pietersen&#8217;s 17 points carry Stormers to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, March 16<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Fullback Joe Pietersen<br \/>\nscored 17 points to steer the unbeaten Stormers to a 27-17<br \/>\nvictory over the Auckland Blues at Newlands on Friday, their<br \/>\nthird successive Super Rugby win.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the depleted Blues it was their third defeat in four<br \/>\noutings and their third straight reverse at the hands of the<br \/>\nSouth Africans.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The visitors competed well despite being without four New<br \/>\nZealand World Cup winners.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Stormers dominated the opening hour, going 24-3 up when<br \/>\ncentre and skipper Jean de Villiers recorded his team&#8217;s second<br \/>\ntry after wing Bryan Habana had earlier touched down in the 15th<br \/>\nminute.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Blues then shifted up several gears and took the game to<br \/>\nthe home side.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Almost from the restart from De Villiers&#8217;s try, the Blues<br \/>\nregained possession and carried the ball through 11 phases<br \/>\nbefore centre Benson Stanley finished in the corner.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seven minutes later the Blues notched a second try through<br \/>\nprop Charlie Faumuina which flyhalf Gareth Anscombe converted to<br \/>\nensure a jittery ending for the Stormers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pietersen, who also booted a conversion, settled the nerves<br \/>\nwith his fifth penalty of the game seven minutes from time.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Writing by Craig Ray, 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>CAPE TOWN, March 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Fullback Joe Pietersen scored 17 points to steer the unbeaten Stormers to a 27-17 victory over the Auckland Blues at Newlands on Friday, their third successive Super Rugby win. For the depleted Blues it was their third defeat in four outings and their third straight reverse at the hands [&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-9007","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\/9007","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=9007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}