{"id":34132,"date":"2025-09-13T10:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/new-zealand-crushes-south-africa-and-advances-to-womens-rugby-world-cup-semifinals\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:41:17","slug":"new-zealand-crushes-south-africa-and-advances-to-womens-rugby-world-cup-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/new-zealand-crushes-south-africa-and-advances-to-womens-rugby-world-cup-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Crushes South Africa and Advances to Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New Zealand Advances to Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup Semifinals<\/h2>\n\nIn an exciting match played in Exeter, New Zealand demonstrated their power by defeating South Africa with a score of 46-17, securing their place in the semi-finals of the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup.\n\nSouth Africa, participating in its first quarter-final, opened the scoring thanks to Babalwa Latsha.\n\nThe Black Ferns&#8217; response was immediate, with Theresa Setefano scoring minutes later. The first half was a close battle, with both teams fighting for the lead.\n\nApiwhe Ngwevu scored the second try for South Africa, before Braxton Sorensen-McGee, with his seventh try in three matches, tied the score at 10-10 before halftime.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0913%2Fr1544772_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Braxton Sorensen-McGee anot\u00f3 dos tries contra Sud\u00e1frica.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Braxton Sorensen-McGee anot\u00f3 dos tries contra Sud\u00e1frica.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nAfter the break, Renee Holmes, fullback for the Black Ferns, spurred her team, which finally found spaces to attack.\n\nSorensen-McGee added his second try, and Kaipo Olsen-Baker also achieved a double with two tries in less than ten minutes, consolidating New Zealand&#8217;s lead.\n\nHolmes completed his own brace, while Lerato Makua scored South Africa&#8217;s only try in the second half.\n\nKatelyn Vaha&#8217;akolo sealed the successful second half for New Zealand with a try at the end of the match, securing their place in the semi-finals, where they will face Canada or Australia.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Advances to Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup Semifinals In an exciting match played in Exeter, New Zealand demonstrated their power by defeating South Africa with a score of 46-17, securing their place in the semi-finals of the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup. South Africa, participating in its first quarter-final, opened the scoring thanks to Babalwa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[683,518,481,6393],"class_list":{"0":"post-34132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-rugby-world-cup","10":"tag-semifinals","11":"tag-south-africa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}