{"id":9939,"date":"2012-04-15T04:13:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T02:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-rampant-bulls-score-five-tries-in-win-against-lions\/"},"modified":"2012-04-15T04:13:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T02:13:42","slug":"rugby-rampant-bulls-score-five-tries-in-win-against-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-rampant-bulls-score-five-tries-in-win-against-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Rampant Bulls score five tries in win against Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 14<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The Bulls ran rampant as<br \/>\nthey thumped the Lions 32-18 in an all-South African Super Rugby<br \/>\nmatch in Johannesburg on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pretoria-based Bulls scored five tries to two to consign<br \/>\nthe hapless Lions to their sixth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The margin of victory could have been a lot higher if Bulls<br \/>\nflyhalf Morne Steyn had not missed three conversions and two<br \/>\npenalty kicks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The victory was the Bulls&#8217; fifth out of seven matches.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first half was quite tough but we got our game going in<br \/>\nthe second half,&#8221; Bulls captain Pierre Spies said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lions were very good on defence but we are glad we got<br \/>\na bonus point because going forward that could be very<br \/>\nimportant,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unfancied Lions made a fast start to the match and took<br \/>\nthe lead in the second minute when scrumhalf Tian Meyer charged<br \/>\ndown a kick from Steyn before gathering the loose ball to go<br \/>\nover for a converted try.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lions outside centre Jaco Taute kicked a long-range penalty<br \/>\nkick as the hosts moved into a 10-0 lead after 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the Bulls dominated possession and finally breached the<br \/>\nLions defence in the 18th minute when wing Akona Ndungane went<br \/>\nover in the right-hand corner after a powerful midfield surge<br \/>\nfrom number eight Spies.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 14 (Reuters) &#8211; The Bulls ran rampant as they thumped the Lions 32-18 in an all-South African Super Rugby match in Johannesburg on Saturday. The Pretoria-based Bulls scored five tries to two to consign the hapless Lions to their sixth consecutive defeat. The margin of victory could have been a lot higher if [&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-9939","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\/9939","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=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}