The Pumas Senior Women’s team kick-started their four-match, Absa Currie Cup B-division campaign on Saturday with a home encounter against the Leopards in White River.
From the start the intentions of the Leopards were clearly to play running rugby, with awesome interplay between forwards and backs. The visitors dominated in the scrums with a slightly heavier pack of forwards.
Five tries were scored by the Leopards in the first half to leave the score 27-0 at half-time, but the Pumas found their rhythm in the second half.
“I think the girls were slightly intimidated in the first couple of minutes by the well-composed opponents, however, they showed character and fought hard in the second half,” says the coach, Petrus Sambo. Pumas fly half, Silindile Nyembe, scored a try to close the game at 27-5.
The next match for the Pumas Women’s team will be on August 15 against the Limpopo Blue Bulls in Polokwane.