KOTA KINABALU, 24 September: China pulled off an early upset when they defeated Korea 36-7 in the HSBC Asian Rugby Sevens Series (men's) that began today on the second day of the Borneo Sevens Series tournament held at Stadium Likas in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Korea, who lead the point rankings in the HSBC Asian Rugby Sevens Series, were defeated by their fifth ranked opponents after only managing to score a solitary try and conversion in the 6th minute. China, meanwhile, ran riot with six tries and three conversions.
Home team Malaysia began the day well when they beat Brunei 50-0 and Chinese Taipei 17-0, but could not sustain their streak in their third game and fell to defending champions, Hong Kong 35-5.
“I am not too happy with the way they played today. The boys made many unnecessary mistakes, which is a bit shameful for me as I know we could have played better," said Malaysian coach Wan Ibrahim.
Coach Wan Ibrahim added, “We are facing Philippines, which is a good team, in our first match tomorrow so we have to focus and be confident going into the match.”
Hong Kong coach, Dai Rees said, “We know the Malaysian team very well and we knew that if we slack off in concentration, Malaysia can beat us. So we tried a different tactic by changing the coaching and by using different strategies.”
In the Asia Pacific Womens Sevens, our Malaysian women lost both of their matches. In their first match against Pool A leaders, Samoa, Malaysia fell 0-46 and in their second match against Cook Islands, they lost 0-34.
Samoa lost to Papua New Guinea 17-22 in the semifinals while China beat Hong Kong 22-12 in the other semis. Papua New Guinea, who placed second last year will be playing China in tomorrow’s finals.
DAY 2, 24 SEPTEMBER 2011 (SATURDAY) RESULTS
APWS (Q/F1) SAMOA vs MALAYSIA 46 - 0
ARFU (Pool A) KOREA vs THAILAND 24 – 17
ARFU (Pool A) CHINA vs SRI LANKA 31 - 17
ARFU (Pool B) HONG KONG vs CHINESE TAIPEI 29 - 5
ARFU (Pool B) MALAYSIA vs BRUNEI 50 - 0
ARFU (Pool C) JAPAN vs PHILIPPINES 38 - 17
ARFU (Pool C) KAZAKHSTAN vs UAE 14 - 21
APWS (Q/F2) PNG vs COOK ISLANDS 24 - 5
ARFU (Pool A) KOREA vs SRI LANKA 21 - 19
ARFU (Pool A) CHINA vs THAILAND 36 - 0
ARFU (Pool B) HONG KONG vs BRUNEI 62 - 0
ARFU (Pool B) MALAYSIA vs CHINESE TAIPEI 17 - 0
ARFU (Pool C) JAPAN vs UAE 19 - 7
ARFU (Pool C) KAZAKHSTAN vs PHILIPPINES 19 - 24
APWS (Q/F3) HONG KONG vs TONGA 15 - 0
APWS (Q/F4) CHINA vs SINGAPORE 29 - 5
ARFU (Pool A) KOREA vs CHINA 7 - 36
ARFU (Pool A) THAILAND vs SRI LANKA 34 - 14
ARFU (Pool B) HONG KONG vs MALAYSIA 35 - 5
ARFU (Pool B) CHINESE TAIPEI vs BRUNEI 43 - 0
ARFU (Pool C) JAPAN vs KAZAKHSTAN 33 - 5
ARFU (Pool C) PHILIPPINES vs UAE 22 - 14
APWS (Plate S/F1) MALAYSIA vs COOK ISLANDS 0 - 34
APWS (Plate S/F2) TONGA vs SINGAPORE 7 - 12
APWS (S/F1) SAMOA vs PNG 17 - 22
APWS (S/F2) HONG KONG vs CHINA 12 - 22中國隊在晉入第2天的「婆羅洲7人制橄欖球錦標賽」，在A組關鍵戰中，以36比7力挫韓國，坐上小組榜首之位，明日複賽迎戰實力較平庸的阿聯酋，四強在望。
在匯豐銀行亞洲7人系列賽領先的韓國，本仗只能在第6分鐘完成一一次達陣和射門，被上海站第5名的中國擊垮，中國則有6個達陣和3個射門的收獲。
在另外2場比賽以24比17拿下泰國、21比19險勝斯里蘭卡的韓國，將在明早的複賽遭遇東亞死敵日本，後者在C組先以38比17把菲律賓拉下馬，接著以19比7挫退阿聯酋，然後33比5完勝哈薩克。
大馬在小組以5比35不敵香港之役，導致教練旺依布拉欣有些不悅。只能展望明天在對壘實力不俗的菲律賓時，球員們能夠振作。
香港隊教戴利斯則表示，球隊知道大馬是一支優秀的隊伍。“我們知道，如果有所怠慢，馬來西亞可以擊敗我們。因此我們嘗試不同的策略，利用不同的戰術。”
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