Namibia beat SA

NAMIBIA delivered a superb second half performance to beat the visiting South Africa Amateurs squad 42-34 on Saturday at a sparsely attended Hage Geingob stadium.

Brian Witbooi scored Namibia’s last two tries with less than ten minutes to go. The score margin could have been bigger, but United’s Tertius Losper failed to convert on both occasions.It was the South Africa Amateurs that drew first blood in the 13th minute, when they converted a penalty to go into the lead 3-0.Namibia bounced back 12 minutes later through United’s fly half Morne Schreuder who converted from the spot to bring the score line to 3-3.South Africa then came out strongly with the intention to increase their tally, but were strongly denied by Namibia’s backline, which stood firm.The Welwitschia’s first try came through an individual effort from Wacca Kazombiaze in the 28th minute, from which Schreuder converted for Namibia to go into the lead 10-3.Two minutes later, the visitors took the game to the host and their pressure paid off when they scored their first try and converted from the spot to bring the score to 10-10.Schreuder again put the Welwitschia’s into the lead at the stroke of half time with a fine penalty conversion to go into the break 13-10.South Africa immediately took the lead in the 46th minute and chances started coming their way as they converted another penalty to lead Namibia by 18-13.Moments later Namibia was awarded a penalty and Schreuder continued to bang them in with his magic right boot.In the 69th minute substitute Tertius Losper scored Namibia’s second try and easily converted to put Namibia into the lead with 23-21.The visitors strongly bounced back as they converted two penalties to narrowly lead Namibia by 27-26, but the home side made a late strong come back through a penalty conversion by Losper, while Witbooi sealed the victory when he impressively scored two tries towards the end.-www.namibiasport.com.naThe score margin could have been bigger, but United’s Tertius Losper failed to convert on both occasions.It was the South Africa Amateurs that drew first blood in the 13th minute, when they converted a penalty to go into the lead 3-0.Namibia bounced back 12 minutes later through United’s fly half Morne Schreuder who converted from the spot to bring the score line to 3-3.South Africa then came out strongly with the intention to increase their tally, but were strongly denied by Namibia’s backline, which stood firm.The Welwitschia’s first try came through an individual effort from Wacca Kazombiaze in the 28th minute, from which Schreuder converted for Namibia to go into the lead 10-3.Two minutes later, the visitors took the game to the host and their pressure paid off when they scored their first try and converted from the spot to bring the score to 10-10.Schreuder again put the Welwitschia’s into the lead at the stroke of half time with a fine penalty conversion to go into the break 13-10.South Africa immediately took the lead in the 46th minute and chances started coming their way as they converted another penalty to lead Namibia by 18-13.Moments later Namibia was awarded a penalty and Schreuder continued to bang them in with his magic right boot.In the 69th minute substitute Tertius Losper scored Namibia’s second try and easily converted to put Namibia into the lead with 23-21.The visitors strongly bounced back as they converted two penalties to narrowly lead Namibia by 27-26, but the home side made a late strong come back through a penalty conversion by Losper, while Witbooi sealed the victory when he impressively scored two tries towards the end.-www.namibiasport.com.na