Blitzboks chase Hong Kong win
Injury-hit world Sevens leaders anxious to capture elusive title
The Blitzboks will regroup over the next 14 days as they prepare to win the one title they have not captured on the HSBC World Sevens Series – Hong Kong. The South Africans are runaway leaders at the top of the overall standings after six rounds of the 2016-17 season‚ with England 23 points behind with only four rounds to play. In the early hours of Monday, England beat SA for the third time in five meetings this season in the final of the Vancouver leg of the series. England won the match 19-7 against an injury-hit Blitzboks but are still far behind SA on the overall standings. Earlier, the teams met in Pool play and the match ended 12-12‚ which allowed SA to top the group and play Canada in the last eight. "It does seem that we have a problem against England. We will have to go and look at how and where to do things better when we face them‚" said coach Neil Powell. The Blitzboks duly thrashed Canada 36-7 in the quarter-finals and had to dig deep on defence to beat the US 14-10 in...
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