{"id":9526,"date":"2012-04-01T03:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T01:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-taylor-made-rally-by-crusaders-floors-lions\/"},"modified":"2012-04-01T03:43:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T01:43:39","slug":"rugby-taylor-made-rally-by-crusaders-floors-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-taylor-made-rally-by-crusaders-floors-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Taylor-made rally by Crusaders floors Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ken Borland<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 31<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The Canterbury Crusaders<br \/>\nstaged a second-half fightback to defeat the Lions 23-13 at<br \/>\nEllis Park on Saturday to secure their third victory from five<br \/>\nSuper Rugby matches this season.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Lions scored their only try four minutes before halftime<br \/>\nas they claimed a 13-10 lead at the break but struggled to get<br \/>\nout of their territory in the second period as the Crusaders<br \/>\nforwards took control.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The New Zealanders regained the lead four minutes after the<br \/>\nrestart as wing Sean Maitland ran on to a good kick from<br \/>\nfullback Israel Dagg after the Lions suffered a costly turnover<br \/>\ndeep in their own half.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Centre Tom Taylor, playing at flyhalf for much of the second<br \/>\nperiod after Dan Carter went off, booted the conversion to make<br \/>\nthe score 17-13.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taylor then failed with a 50-metre penalty attempt but made<br \/>\namends with three-point efforts in the 48th and 63rd minutes to<br \/>\nwrap up victory.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the South Africans dominated the first half as they<br \/>\nkept possession for long periods.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of promising breaks by the home side but<br \/>\ncaptain and flanker Josh Strauss passed straight to an opponent<br \/>\nwith the try line in sight and lock Franco van der Merwe was<br \/>\nheld up by scrumhalf Andy Ellis on the brink of a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf Butch James booted the Lions in front after 19<br \/>\nminutes before Taylor replied two minutes later.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Borland JOHANNESBURG, March 31 (Reuters) &#8211; The Canterbury Crusaders staged a second-half fightback to defeat the Lions 23-13 at Ellis Park on Saturday to secure their third victory from five Super Rugby matches this season. The Lions scored their only try four minutes before halftime as they claimed a 13-10 lead at 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-9526","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\/9526","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=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}