Oceania Sevens, Day 2 Results
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:04
Samoa won the Men's tournament and Australia the Women's in the Oceania Sevens played in Apia, Samoa on Friday and Saturday. Four teams have qualified for the Sevens World Cups to played in Dubai in March 2009.
Samoa and Tonga are the Men's qualifiers, Australia and New Zealand the Women's.
Those from the region qualified on past performances were Fiji, New Zealand and Australia in the Men's section.
The final of the Oceania Sevens was as one-sided as a Sevens match can ever be for Samoa, one of the World's top sides at Sevens, smashed Tonga 52-0.
Australia's Women were something of a surprise as the Black Ferns have dominated Women's rugby in 15-a-side. It took a late try by Nicole Beck to win the Final 22-15 for Australia.
Those qualified from other tournaments are:
Men
South America: Argentina, Uruguay
Europe: England, France, Scotland, Portugal, Wales,
Ireland, Georgia, Italy
Women
South America: Brazil
Europe: England, Netherlands, France, Russia, Spain, Italy
Results, Day 2
Men
Papua New Guinea vs Tahiti, 31-7
Solomon Islands vs Vanuatu, 22-14
Samoa vs Cook Islands, 34-0
Tonga vs Niue Islands, 27-5
Vanuatu vs Tahiti, 24-0
Papua New Guinea vs Solomon Islands, 19-12
Cook Islands vs Niue Islands, 33-15
Samoa vs Tonga, 52-0
Women
Australia vs Samoa, 29-0
New Zealand vs Fiji , 35-10
Fiji vs Samoa, 24-7
Australia vs New Zealand, 22-15
