Red-hot Hong Kong rebound from Japan defeat with a stunning seven-try demolition of Singapore
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Hong Kong ran in seven tries in a 40-7 away romp over Singapore on Saturday in a confidence-boosting warm-up game ahead of the second and final leg of the 2016 Women’s Asia Rugby Championship series against Japan.
A hot start at Singapore’s covered National Stadium saw Hong Kong get on the scoreboard score within 60 seconds through Natasha Olson-Thorne – captain of the Hong Kong sevens squad who was playing at outside centre for the 15s team.
A second try came just eight minutes later through prop Tammy Lau Nga-wun – the 2015-16 HKRU Women’s Premiership player of the year who plays her club rugby for Gai Wu.
Winger and pivot Aggie Poon Pak-yan slotted the first of the two conversions before adding a penalty with just 14 minutes gone.
Our set piece performed very well and we were able to set up a dominant platform at the scrum and line-out which led to the pack tries
Poon then scored the next 10 points for Hong Kong – getting over in the 26th minute and adding a second try four minutes before half-time – to give the tourists a commanding 25-7 lead at the break.
Hong Kong exploded out of the blocks at the start of the second period with Lau collecting her brace three minutes after the restart.