{"id":35612,"date":"2015-10-08T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/35612\/boks-run-rampant-against-us-eagles\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T03:58:08","slug":"boks-run-rampant-against-us-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/rugby-world-cup\/2015\/10\/08\/boks-run-rampant-against-us-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Boks run rampant against US Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to believe that it has been little over two weeks since South Africa suffered a shock defeat to Japan in their opening match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, all those ghosts seem to be behind the Springboks, as they put on an impressive second-half performance against the US Eagles to win 64-0.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, the two-time World Cup winners secured their quarter-final spot in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Points were hard to come by in the first half, with the Boks having only a try by Damian de Allende and a penalty try to show for their efforts after 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations for Damian de Allende for scoring his first test try for the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Springboks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Springboks<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/doogz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@doogz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/rwc2015?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rwc2015<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/SyJ5Deu4Ad\">pic.twitter.com\/SyJ5Deu4Ad<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Springboks (@Springboks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Springboks\/status\/651800360806424576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<p>However, as the match opened up in the second half, the team ran in eight unanswered tries to leave the US Eagles stunned.<\/p>\n<p>Springboks wing Bryan Habana was influential throughout the match, and now stands level with Jonah Lomu on a record-equalling 15 tries at Rugby World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Scorers:<\/p>\n<p>Tries: Damian de Allende, Penalty Try, Bryan Habana (3), Bismarck du Plessis, Francois Louw (2), Jessie Kriel, Lwazi Mvovo.<\/p>\n<p>Conversions: Handre Pollard (4), Morne Steyn (3)<\/p>\n<iframe src='\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPQpG0g_H8w' height='360' width='640' allowfullscreen='' frameborder='0' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Springboks booked their quarter-final place in the 2015 Rugby World Cup with a demolition job of the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":35615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2771,2886],"tags":[887,2708,2776,1954,2747],"class_list":["post-35612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-rwc","tag-springboks","tag-usa"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"tag_labels":["rugby","Rugby World Cup","RWC","springboks","USA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}