{"id":5117,"date":"2017-12-01T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2017-12-01T13:44:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:44:08","slug":"varsity-rugby-7s-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2017\/12\/01\/varsity-rugby-7s-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Rugby 7&#8217;s Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2016 finalists Stellenbosch University and University of Western Cape stamp their dominance on the competition with bonus-point wins.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maties 28-5 UKZN<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter\u00a0a stuttering start for both teams, the\u00a0Cape visitors took the score to 14-0\u00a0\u00a0at the end of the first half before finishing as the victors with a final score of 28 &#8211; 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NWU 19-12 Tuks<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was a hard fought affair with both teams showing expert defensive structures, but NWU emerged as winners with a final score of 19 &#8211; 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madibaz 17-7 Kovsies<\/strong><br \/>\nMadibaz looked like the team in charge for most of the first half with the Eastern Cape side showing some expert moves. Kovsies showed glimpses of dangerous play but were thwarted by\u00a0the strong defence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UCT 7-26 UWC<\/strong><br \/>\nUWC, the 2017 finalists, kicked into action after a slow start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UJ 17-0 CUT<\/strong><br \/>\nCUT came close but failed to score as UJ dominated with a\u00a017-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy <em><strong>Varsity Sports<\/strong><\/em>; check more <a href=\"http:\/\/varsitysportssa.com\/fixtures\/varsity-7s-2017-fixtures-results\/\">results<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 finalists Stellenbosch University and University of Western Cape stamp their dominance on the competition with bonus-point wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[315,311,21,8,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}