England IRB 7s Results - Day One


Wellington - NZ

By Kath 6/2/04
April 9 2004

England has qualified for the quarter-finals of the IRB New Zealand Sevens and will face Samoa tomorrow. Ben Gollings, the leading points corer on the IRB circuit, scored two tries and converted those of Nnambi Obi and Dan Hipkiss to eliminate the Australians IRB 7s

IRB 7s -Results Wellington - New Zealand

The next round of the IRB 7s have got underway in Wellington New Zealand and England have made a fantastic start! 

England has qualified for the quarter-finals of the IRB New Zealand Sevens and will face Samoa tomorrow.  After trailing 7-12 at half-time against Australia, England improved in the second half to win 26-17 and maintain their unbeaten record.

Ben Gollings, the leading points corer on the IRB circuit, scored two tries and converted those of Nnambi Obi and Dan Hipkiss to eliminate the Australians.  Kenya are the other team to qualify from Pool A and they will play defending champions New Zealand tomorrow. The remaining quarter-finals are Fiji v Tonga and South Africa against France.

Newcastle Falcons’ Gollings was satisfied to make the Cup round:  

"If we’d lost that game we would have been in the Bowl," he said. "We can’t be unhappy as we got what we wanted. We can still play better than that but it’s coming.

"Australia came at us hard and got a few good tries, so half-time came at a good time. Luckily, we regrouped and got it together in the second half."

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Play commences on the second day at midnight GMT and England’s next match is scheduled for 01:33 GMT

Results - Day 1 - 6th Feb
TIME M FIXTURE V FIXTURE
1.00 1 Fiji               26 v 5 Canada
1.22 2 France 21v 12 Cook Islands
1.44 3 South Africa 49 v 0 USA
2.06 4 Argentina 24 v 12 Tonga
2.28 5 England 26 v 17 Kenya
2.5 6 Australia 45 v  7 PNG
3.12 7 New Zealand 47 v  7 Korea
3.34 8 Samoa 40 v  0 Niue
3.56 9 Fiji 38 v  0 Cook Islands
4.18 10 France 26 v 17 Canada
4.40 11 South Africa 12 v 15 Tonga
5.02 12 Argentina 29 v 12 USA
5.24 13 England 26 v  0 PNG
5.46 14 Australia 21 v 29 Kenya
6.08 15 New Zealand 33 v  0 Niue
6.30 16 Samoa 31 v  5 Korea
6.52 17 Canada 26 v 12 Cook Islands
7.14 18 USA 0  v  41 Tonga
7.36 19 Kenya 28 v 12 PNG
7.58 20 Korea 43 v 12 Niue
8.50 21 Fiji 26 v 12 France
9.12 22 South Africa 50 v  0 Argentina
9.34 23 England 26 v 17 Australia
9.56 24 New Zealand 21 v 7 Samoa

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