“However we weren’t simply adequate. We’ll need to go and watch the sport again and ensure we’re higher subsequent time.”
Caslick stars for Australia’s girls
4 groups are left in rivalry for the primary Hong Kong girls’s title. Heavyweights New Zealand and Australia face first-time semi-finalists this season, Fiji and Britain respectively.
Charlotte Caslick in motion for Australia towards Fiji.Credit score:AP
New Zealand and Australia comfortably dealt with Canada and Eire, whereas Fiji downed the US 19-14 after a last-minute attempt by Reapi Ulunisau.
Charlotte Caslick has made rugby historical past in Hong Kong by changing into the primary Australian lady to attain 150 tries in World Collection sevens tournaments.
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The world sevens participant of the 12 months was in irresistible kind on Saturday as she piloted the World Cup winners into the semi-finals of the inaugural girls’s occasion on the sport’s marquee match on the Hong Kong Stadium.
Caslick, who’d scored three tries in Friday’s opening two matches, carried on the place she left off, scooting over for a double within the 35-5 hammering of Fiji in Australia’s closing group match.
The primary of the 2 tries was her a hundred and fiftieth, as she grew to become the primary Australian, and solely the fifth lady in World Collection historical past, to achieve the landmark.
Caslick, who had turn into Australia’s all-time main girls’s scorer along with her 142nd attempt throughout the Sydney Sevens, took her present tally to 153 after one other masterful double within the 24-5 defeat of Eire within the quarter-finals.
Australia had struggled to defeat the sport Irish aspect of their group match on Friday, however have been dominant of their last-eight conflict, as Caslick’s sensible link-up play and decisive ending allied to a different attempt from Religion Nathan put the Collection champions 19-0 up at halftime.
One other attempt from Madison Ashby after the break sealed the win, establishing a semi-final conflict on Sunday towards Nice Britain, with the dominant New Zealand outfit favourites within the different last-four tie with Fiji.
Britain beat France solely 5-0 after a attempt with 9 seconds left by Rhona Lloyd, who sprinted 60 meters due to an overlap move from Shona Campbell.
The Hong Kong Sevens is the main occasion on the World Rugby Sevens Collection calendar.
