Capetown, South Africa (GenevaLunch) – South African fly-half Morne Steyn scored 24 points as the Springboks won their third successive Tri-Nations match of the season 29-17. The Wallabies were overpowered but contributed to their loss by poor discipline and careless mistakes. At one stage there were only 13 Aussies on the field as Matt Giteau and Richard Brown were given yellow cards.
Australia started well with a converted try in the opening minutes but after that the South Africans seemed to score a penalty every time they went forward. Morne Steyn scored with five of his seven attempts, following his record 31 points last week as the Boks beat the New Zealand All Blacks. South Africa now dominate the Tri-Nations after winning their first three games.
Details: Couriermail
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
News story, GenevaLunch, 9 August 2009.
Filed under: Sports
Tags: All Blacks, Capetown, Matt Giteau, Morne Steyn, New Zealand, Richard Brown, rugby, South Africa, Springboks, Tri-Nations, wallabies