Sport in brief

Press, 6 September 1989, Page 33

Sport in brief

Southland wins PA Masterton Southland scored three tries to one in beating Wairarapa Bush, 24-10, in their national second division rugby match yesterday. It was an efficient performance by Southland, whose forwards were particularly adept at cleaning up lineout ball and whose loose forwards guaranteed it won the major share of second-phase possession. The Southland backs were mainly content to keep the ball in front of their forwards. Wairarapa Bush lacked its normal drive up front, with the forwards tending to work in ones and twos rather than as a unit.Scorersr— Southland 24 (Bruce Pascoe, Phillip Johnston, Bobby Murrell tries; Eion Crossan 3 conversions, 2 penalty goals) bt Wairarapa Bush 10 (Mike Foster try, Craig Pepperell 2 penalty goals). Wgtn under strength PA Wellington Wellington, which faces North Harbour at Athletic Park today in a national rugby championship match, can afford to relax a little after last week-end’s win over Counties. The win virtually ensures Wellington a first division spot again in next year’s competition. But even so, the Gold and Blacks led by the halfback, Neil Sorensen, who will be playing his 100th game for his province, will not be able to field a full-strength team. The second five-eighth, John Schuster — still worried by his ribs, which he first injured in the first test against Argentina — has cried off, although he ran at practice. The fullback, John Gallagher, showing the strains of a hard season at the top, has opted to have a rest. Aust, draws hockey NZPA-Reuter Frankfurt, West Germany Two late goals inside a minute boosted South Korea to a 3-3 draw against the Olympic gold medallist, Australia, in the Champions Trophy women’s hockey tournament yesterday. Kye Sook Lim and Eun Yung Yang both netted in the sixtyfourth minute, leaving Australia and the Olympic runner-up, South Korea, the only unbeaten teams after the second day of the six-nation tournament. Britain, beaten, 3-2, by Australia on Sunday, defeated the defending champion the Netherlands, 3-2. West Germany, beaten, 1-0, by South Korea in its opener, overcame lacklustre Canada, 3-0, with goals by Caren Jungjohann, Christiane Ferneck and Britta Becker in the thirty-seventh, forty-seventh and sixty-sixth minutes. Pro. rugby in S.A.? NZPA-AFP Johannesburg Professional rugby in South Africa appears to be a step closer after the success of the South African Rugby Board centenary celebrations and the International 15 tour. The tour, with the blessing of the International Board, has shown South Africans what they have been missing in their international isolation, and luring top players to the Republic with financial inducements is widely seen as a way of breaking the boycott. According to reports, plans are well advanced to stage a professional World Cup competition in direct competition to the International Board’s own World Cup in Britain and France in 1991, if South Africa is again excluded from the competition and the t.R.R refit«*i to authorise official tour?