Highlanders Highlights
 
Highlanders v. Bulls
11 March 2005
Carisbrook, Dunedin, New Zealand
 
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We have the first win of the season to report!
Highlanders beat The Bulls 23 to 0.  Go Highlanders! 

Here's a scoring summary from AllBlacks.com:

Highlanders:

Tries:  Nick Evans, Matt Saunders, Filipo Levi.

Conversions:  Ben Blair.   Penalties: Blair (2). 


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Super 12 Standings

 

Team P W D L F A BP1 BP2 PTS
Hurricanes 3 3 0 0 98 65 1 0 13
Brumbies 3 3 0 0 75 59 1 0 13
Crusaders 3 2 0 1 130 74 2 0 10
Waratahs 3 2 0 0 61 20 2 0 10
Blues 3 2 0 1 57 47 0 0 8
Stormers 3 1 1 1 61 50 0 1 7
Highlanders 3 1 1 1 53 46 0 0 6
Cats 3 1 0 1 55 62 1 0 5
Chiefs 3 1 0 2 43 84 0 0 4
Bulls 3 0 0 3 36 67 1 1 2
Reds 3 0 0 3 49 101 1 1 2
Sharks 3 0 0 3 48 91 0 1 1
 
Source:
http://allblacks.com/index.cfm?layout=S12Standings


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Planet Rugby covered the game on its live scoring site and here's the link if you'd like to look over their commentary: 
 
http://live.planet-rugby.com/2005/03/11/836.shtml
 

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Highlanders Headlines:
 
Highlanders Charge Wounded Bulls (AllBlacks.com):
http://allblacks.com/index.cfm?layout=showHighlandersNews&newsArticle=1435
 
Highlanders Trounce Bulls in Dunedin (Scrum.com):
http://www.scrum.com/news/news_detail.asp?newsid=29546
 
Evans Sparks Highlanders (sportal.com.au):
http://www.sportal.com.au/?i=news&id=63353
 
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Next Match
 
19 March 2005
7: 10 p.m. (Durban time)
Sharks v. Highlanders
Durban, South Africa
 
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We will always love and miss Tony Brown, but Nick Evans had a great week, and here's a story that was done earlier this week on Nick's goals for the year:
 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3214221a10295,00.html
 
Nick's the photo of the week:
 
 

 

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For our trivia this week, here's a nice, little history of the Super 12 courtesy of Planet Rugby:
 
http://www.planet-rugby.com/News/story_41704.shtml
 
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Last but not least, stop by and check out the website associated with this group, where game summaries and updates will also be posted:
 
http://www.geocities.com/highlanders_rugby_fan
 
Email me with feedback, comments, suggestions, corrections, submissions for next newsletter, etc. at:
 
[email protected]
 
Go Highlanders!!

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