The Springboks Women's Sevens celebrate their return to the HSBC Sevens Series with a dominant 17-00 win over Spain in the 9th-place semi-final. South Africa will play Japan at 13:04 (SA Time) in the 9th-place final.
Nadine Roos opened the scoring with a great try after just two minutes of play to lead 05-00. The rest of the first half was an arm wrestle, however, with time up Rights Mkhari scored a great team try in the corner to go into the second half leading 10-00.
With 2 minutes still to play, Nadine Roos collected her own kick forward to score her second try of the match to extend South Africa's lead to 17-00 which was also the winning score.
Scorers:
Springbok Women's Sevens: Try: Nadine Roos (2), Rights Mkhari. Conversion: Nadine Roos.
Teams:
Springbok Women's Sevens: Zintle Mpupha, Simankele Namba, Mathrin Simmers, Marilze de Bruin, Ayanda Malinga, Nadine Roos, Rights Mkhari. Replacements: Shiniqwa Lamprecht, Liske Lategan. Asisipho Plaatjies, Kyla de Vries, Maria Tshiremba.
Spain: Claudia Perez Perez, Lide Erbina, Eva Aguirre Diaz, Beatriz Dominguez, Amaia Erbina, Olivia Fresneda, Amalia Arguda. Replacements: Juana Stella, Maria Calvo, Paula Requena, Marta Cantabrana Gil, Jimena Blanco, Hortiguera Pedrero
