The Springbok Sevens have been in agency management all through their Commonwealth Games quarter-final on Saturday night as they beat Canada 33-0 to advance into the semi-finals the place they are going to meet Australia at 14:04 (SA time) on Sunday at the Coventry Stadium in Birmingham.
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They might be with out Siviwe Soyizwapi although, as the SA captain’s match was lower quick after he was injured in opposition to Scotland earlier on Saturday – a match the Blitzboks received 34-0.
Meanwhile, the Springbok Women’s Sevens facet will face Sri Lanka at 19:00 (SA time) on Sunday night in the seventh-place playoff.
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Zain Davids, who took over the captaincy in the quarter-final from Soyizwapi, stated: “We will at all times be proud of a victory, particularly as we caught to our processes, defended properly and we additionally did our fundamentals properly, so I feel we can be pleased.
“Losing ‘Shakes’ is not great – he is a proper leader who leads from the front and never gives up, the players really look up to him and we realise we have big shoes to fill, but we will try and do that for Siviwe.”
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On their semi-final opponent, Australia – who beat Samoa 7-0 in their quarter-final – Davids stated they are going to strategy it as every other sport.
“It doesn’t matter who we play, for us it’s ‘game five on day three’ and our focus will be on sticking to our processes and getting our basics right.”
Against Canada on Saturday night, three first-half tries – by Ronald Brown, Christie Grobbelaar and Angelo Davids – arrange a 21-0 lead at the break, with Angelo Davids’s intercept-try from 80m out – whereas Brown was in the sin-bin for a excessive sort out – summing up the SA workforce’s dominance.
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The Canadians tried onerous, however defensive strain from SA noticed them make plenty of unforced errors, which the Blitzboks pounced on with gratitude. Brown bought his second strive not lengthy after returning to the area shortly after the break, scoring from a Canadian mistake to stretch the result in 26-0.
Mfundo Ndhlovu, who was declared match after taking a heavy knock on the first day, additionally bought his identify on the rating sheet with simply over a minute left in the sport.
The first semi-final in the males’s competitors kicks off at 13:42, with defending champions New Zealand taking over Fiji.
TEAM SA’S COMMONWEALTH GAMES SCHEDULE – DAY 3
Team SA will be in action in 10 totally different sports activities on Sunday’s Day 3 of competitors at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
NOTE: All occasions are native (for SA occasions add one hour).
5 THINGS TO WATCH
Commonwealth and Olympic swimming champion Tatjana Schoenmaker goes for gold once more in the girls’s 200m breaststroke ultimate
Team SA’s males’s Rugby Sevens have a semi-final in opposition to Australia and might be favourites to contest the gold medal match
Chad Le Clos might be trying to win 200m butterfly gold 10 years to the day that he beat Michael Phelps to win the Olympic gold medal in London
South Africa’s netballers might be decided to beat Barbados in type and make up for the disappointment of shedding to Jamaica on Saturday
Caitlin Rooskrantz and Naveen Daries participate in the girls’s particular person all-round gymnastics ultimate
BADMINTON
Mixed Team, quarter-final: Jarred Elliott, Caden Kakora, Robert Summers, Deidre Jordaan and Johanna Scholtz vs India
BOXING
8.15pm Men’s middleweight (75kg): Simnikiwe Bongco vs Foday Badjie (Gambia)
GYMNASTICS
9am Men’s All-Round ultimate: Muhammad Khaalid
2.30pm Women’s All-Round ultimate: Caitlin Rooskrantz, Naveen Daries
LAWN BOWLS
3pm Para Men’s Pairs B6-B8, Section A, Round 5: Willem Viljoen and Deon van der Vyver vs England
3pm Women’s Fours, quarter-finals: Johanna Snyman, Esme Kruger, Bridgit Calitz and Thabelo Muvhango vs England
3pm Para Women’s Pairs B6-B8, Section A, Round 5: Desiree Levin and Victoria van der Merwe vs New Zealand
6pm Men’s Pairs, quarter-final D: Prince Nelounde, Wayne Rittmuller vs TBD
6pm: Para Mixed Pairs, Section A, Round 1: Tracy Smith, Thomas Smith, Hermanus Scholtz and Johanna van Rooyen vs Scotland
NETBALL
2pm SA vs Barbados
RUGBY SEVENS
1.04pm Men’s semi-finals: vs Australia
6pm Playoff for seventh and eighth: Women’s Sevens vs Sri Lanka
8.12pm: playoff for bronze
9.04pm: Men’s gold medal
SWIMMING
10.37am Men’s 200m butterfly, warmth 3: Chad Le Clos
10.41am Women’s 200m breaststroke, warmth 1: Kaylene Corbett
10.46am Women’s 200m breaststroke, warmth 2: Tatjana Schoenmaker
10.59am Men’s 50m backstroke, warmth 5: Pieter Coetze
11.11am Women’s 50m butterfly, warmth 5: Rebecca Meder
11.15am Women’s 50m butterfly, warmth 7: Erin Gallagher, Trinity Hearne
11.31am Men’s 100m freestyle, warmth 7: Matt Sates, Guy Brooks
11.35am Men’s 100m freestyle, warmth 9: Pieter Coetze
7.28pm Men’s 200m butterfly, ultimate: Chad Le Clos
7.42pm Men’s SB8 100m breaststroke, ultimate: Christian Sadie
8.05pm Women’s 50m freestyle, ultimate: Erin Gallagher, Emma Chelius
8.22pm: Women’s 200m breaststroke, ultimate: Tatjana Schoenmaker, Kaylene Corbett
8.45pm Women’s 100m backstroke, ultimate: Rebecca Meder
8.51pm: Men’s 100m breaststroke, ultimate: Brenden Crawford
9.13pm: Women’s 4x200m freestyle, ultimate (from Aimee Canny, Dune Coetzee, Erin Gallagher, Michaela Pulford and Rebecca Meder)
TRIATHLON
11.01am Men’s PTVI ultimate: David Jones, Gavin Kilpatrick
11.06am Women’s PTVI ultimate: Linsay Engelbrecht
2.31pm Mixed Team Relay ultimate
WEIGHTLIFTING
2pm Women’s 59kg: Anneke Spies
6.30pm Men’s 73kg: Jon-Antohein Phillips
WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL
4.29pm Men’s Group A: SA vs Malaysia
(Allen Mtatase, Cecil Dumond, Ayabonga Jim and Simanga Mbhele)
8.50pm: Women’s Group B: SA vs Australia
(Aviwe Ngoni, Samkelisiwe Mbatha, Michelle Moganedi and Kelebogile Moeng)