UPDATE 1-Rugby-World-Australia 91 Japan 3 - result

Sat Sep 8, 2007 4:37pm BST
 
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  Sept 8 (Reuters) - Australia beat Japan 91 - 3 (halftime
23-3) in the World Cup Pool B match in Lyon on Saturday.
 Scorers:
 Australia - Tries: Nathan Sharpe, Rocky Elsom (3), Adam
Ashley-Cooper, Chris Latham (2), Berrick Barnes (2), Drew
Mitchell (2), George Smith, Adam Freier. Conversions: Stirling
Mortlock (7), Matt Giteau (2) . Penalties: Mortlock (2).
 Japan - Penalty: Kosei Ono
 Teams:
 Australia - 15-Chris Latham, 14-Adam Ashley-Cooper (21-Drew
Mitchell 59), 13-Stirling Mortlock (captain) (22-Mark Gerrard
68), 12-Matt Giteau, 11-Lote Tuqiri, 10-Stephen Larkham
(20-Berrick Barnes 54), 9-George Gregan, 8-Wycliff Palu
(19-Steven Hoiles 67), 7-George Smith, 6-Rocky Elsom, 5-Dan
Vickerman, 4-Nathan Sharpe (18-Hugh McMeniman 51), 3-Al Baxter
(17-Guy Shepherdson 51), 2-Stephen Moore (16-Adam Freier 67),
1-Matt Dunning (3-Al Baxter 68).
 Japan: 15-Tatsuya Kusumi, 14-Tomoki Kitagawa, 13-Koji Taira,
12-Nataniela Oto, 11-Hirotoki Onozawa, 10-Kosei Ono, 9-Yuki
Yatomi, 8-Hajime Kiso, 7-Takamichi Sasaki (captain) (19-Hare
Makiri 48), 6-Yasunori Watanabe, 5-Luatangi Samurai Vatuvei,
4-Takanori Kumagae, 3-Ryo Yamamura, 2-Taku Inokuchi, 1-Masahito
Yamamoto.
 Replacements not used: 16-Yuji Matsubara, 17-Tomokazu Soma,
18-Hitoshi Ono, 20-Tomoki Yoshida, 21-Bryce Robins, 22-Kosuke
Endo.
 Referee: Alan Lewis (Ireland)


 

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