Rugby: Sunwolves open final Super Rugby season with shock win over the Rebels

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TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan's Sunwolves opened their final season in Super Rugby with a bang on Saturday (Feb 1), running in five tries for a deserved 36-27 victory over the Melbourne Rebels in Fukuoka.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO - Japan's Sunwolves opened their final season in Super Rugby with a bang on Saturday , running in five tries for a deserved 36-27 victory over the Melbourne Rebels in Fukuoka.

Shorn of the Brave Blossoms players who took Japan to the quarter-finals for the first time at that tournament, a new Sunwolves team of international journeymen and unproven youngsters had been thrown together over the last few weeks. The Rebels, with a string of Wallabies in their backline, went for broke to try and get back into the contest but the hastily constructed Sunwolves defensive system did enough for the home side to pull off the victory.

"We assembled four weeks ago and to put in that effort today was unbelievable," said Sunwolves No. 8 Jake Schatz, another Australian.

 

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