WXV3
SPAIN 83 – 0 MADAGASCAR
There were barely two minutes on the clock in Dubai when Claudia Peña Hidalgo supplied the pass that allowed Piquero to score her first try of the match. Less than five minutes later, Spain had a second try as Nadina Cisa went over. Captain Cristina Blanco was the next woman in red to cross the whitewash, before Zahia Perez confirmed the try-scoring bonus point in only the 17th minute.
Cisa scored her second try of the match at the end of the first quarter, and Argudo and Carmen Castellucci each added their own tries before the break. It was a similar story after half-time as Piquero bagged her brace and Peña added her own minutes later. Piquero completed her hat-trick in the 54th minute, the score was 69-0. Spain crossed the whitewash twice more before the end, through Maria Roman Mallen and Maria Calvo.
FIJI 38 – 3 HONG KONG CHINA
It took Fijiana no time to get up and running, as Ana Korovata powered over inside two minutes. Luisa Tisolo then played in winger Kolora Lomani two minutes later, for back to back attacking blitzes. Fung Hoi-ching disrupted into the Fijian lead with a 15th-minute penalty, to make the score 10-3, and the Pacific Islanders had to wait until the final play of the first half to get their third try,
Number eight Karalaini Naisewa profited from a powerful attacking scrum to dot the ball down over the line. Tisolo’s conversion made the half-time score 17-3. Repeka Adi Tove supplied the all-important fourth try in the 59th minute and there was still time for Sulita Waisega and Naisewa again to go over for additional scores before full-time.
NETHERLANDS 8 – 8 SAMOA
The WXV debutants dominated from the first whistle and twere rewarded for some expansive play with their first try in only the fourth minute, as Linneke Gevers went over. Kievit missed the conversion, but the fly-half soon made up for that with a penalty to stretch the Dutch lead to 8-0.
Samoa offered little in the way of attacking threat in the first half but cut into the Netherlands’ lead in the 26th minute as Siataga struck a penalty through the uprights. Samoa put the Netherlands under huge pressure in the final 10 minutes and the dam finally broke with time in the red as Ana-Lise Sio burrowed over from close range. Dutch full-back Stallmann charged down the conversion kick to preserve the draw.