{"id":9521,"date":"2012-04-01T03:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T01:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-late-grant-kick-leads-stormers-to-victory\/"},"modified":"2012-04-01T03:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T01:43:34","slug":"rugby-late-grant-kick-leads-stormers-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-late-grant-kick-leads-stormers-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Late Grant kick leads Stormers to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, March 31<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Stormers flyhalf Peter Grant<br \/>\nbooted a late 45-metre penalty to seal a 20-17 victory over the<br \/>\nBulls in an all-South African Super Rugby tussle at Newlands on<br \/>\nSaturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was the fifth consecutive win for the Cape Town-based<br \/>\nteam and the league leaders, who have 24 points, remain the only<br \/>\nunbeaten side in the competition.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Stormers led 14-0 at halftime through three penalties<br \/>\nfrom fullback Joe Pietersen and a try by hooker Tiaan<br \/>\nLiebenberg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pretoria-based Bulls replied with second-half tries by<br \/>\nwing Bjorn Basson and centre Wynand Olivier, both converted by<br \/>\nflyhalf Morne Steyn.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Steyn, however, also missed two penalty attempts and that<br \/>\nultimately proved the difference between the sides.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The home team dominated the early exchanges and appeared to<br \/>\nbe on their way to a comfortable win when Liebenberg barged over<br \/>\nfor the opening try in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Soon after halftime Bulls lock Flip van der Merwe received a<br \/>\nyellow card for foul play, reducing the visitors to 14 men.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead of signalling a period of renewed Stormers<br \/>\ndominance, the incident lifted the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They hauled their way back to 17-17 before Grant&#8217;s late<br \/>\npenalty secured victory.<\/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 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Stormers flyhalf Peter Grant booted a late 45-metre penalty to seal a 20-17 victory over the Bulls in an all-South African Super Rugby tussle at Newlands on Saturday. It was the fifth consecutive win for the Cape Town-based team and the league leaders, who have 24 points, remain the [&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-9521","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\/9521","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=9521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}