Thanks to Kurt in the comments

From SARFU Website.

21 June 2008 (Posted: 18:59)

The South African Under-20 Womens team kicked off their preparations for the Womens Rugby World Cup with a 23-12 win over their USA counterparts at Nelspruit High School today. Half-time score was 8-7.
In a cool partly-cloudy weather with no wind, the South Africans opened their account in the sixth minute with a try by winger Lindiwe Masole. Fly-half Zenay Jordaan failed to convert.

However, the Americans replied four minutes later with a try by flanker Katherine Johnson. Fly-half Lisa Hennenans conversion gave the visitors their maximum points for the afternoon.

The home side ended the first half with a lead in the 25th minute when Masole scored a penalty kick.

In the second half, the Americans were subjected to further Masole punishment when she earned her team three points in the 48th minute, after a penalty against the visitors.

Two tries within three minutes sealed the fate of the Americans when centre Celeste April scored in the 52nd minute and full-back Aimee Barrett (captain) in the 55th. Masole failed to convert the former but was successful with the latter.

The USA U20 WNT Select for South Africa Game.

Nelspruit, South Africa. June 20th. The USA U20 WNT announced the team to play the first game against the South Africa U20 WNT on Saturday June 21st. The game will be played at the Nelspruit Rugby School at 3pm local time.
“The quality of the player on this team is much higher than previous years and this made selections difficult” said Head Coach Bryn Chivers. The South African side is new this year and while they have played a couple of games in the last month very little is know about them. “We really don’t know anything about the South African side with the exception of the couple of players they have on their Senior 15’s and senior 7’s squads. We’ve heard that they will be very big in the tight five with and fast in the back three” commented Chivers.

U20 WNT Backs coach Tasha Bishop thinks that her gals will be up for the challenge and this will make for a very enjoyable game of rugby. The speed match ups will be interesting. “We are excited about the unknown challenges the South African back line will present to us.” Forwards coach Sue Oldenburg looks at the size of the South African forwards as a challenge in the set but has hopes that the US pack will offer their own challenge with their speed in the open field play.

USA U20 Team
1 Rachel Sommer West Linn, OR
2 Brittany Woodard Hyde School, DC
3 Jay Marie Hill Stanford
4 Anneke Brand Texas Tech
5 Maggie Reidy Divine Savior, WI
6 Candace Barley Maryville, TN
7 Katie Johnson Hopkins, MN
8 Alex Hartley Brown
9 BriAnna Barto Summit, CO
10 Lisa Henneman (C) Seattle Women
11 Tyra McGrady Indiana
12 Marie Timm USMA
13 Catherine Turnerdrown Riverton,UT
14 Seymi Salamy State College, PA
15 Sadie Anderson Fort Collins, CO

16 Joanna Kitlinski Grand Valley State
17 Tayo Mafe Michigan State
18 Mallory Ives Colorado State
19 Jozy Gessner Summit, CO
20 Catherine Parkhill Armstrong, MN
21 Kayla Morisoli San Jose State
22 Blaine Martin Brown

USA U20’s Arrive in South Africa.

Wednesday June 18th. After four flights over two days the USA U20 WNT finally made it to White River South Africa. With two long flights (eight hours and eleven hours) and fourteen hours waiting in airports the U20’s were at the point where any flat surface was good for a couple of hours sleep despite the stares, and sometimes photographs, from the people in the airport.


We finally arrived at the Ingwenyama Lodge in White River around 6pm on Wednesday and because it’s the winter here the sun had gone down so we really couldn’t see much of our surroundings. We had a quick look at our rooms and were very pleasantly surprised as they were simple, but very clean and with two nice comfy beds. We went straight to dinner and found that they have a building just for us. You enter through a large round room with blinds on the open windows, African flags all over the ceiling and a huge fire in the middle of the room. This leads to the small dining room where we will have all of our meals. The food was great. Some traditional maize dish that substitutes for potatoes, a chicken casserole, a lamb stew, salad and some interesting desserts. It was all very wonderful after two days of airport food. We had a quick chat about plans for Thursday and everyone crashed by 9pm.

Thursday June 19th.
First day of practices and it’s clear that everyone is jet lagged and rusty. Everything was sloppy and while there were sparks of individual talent, the sense of being a team was clearly missing. We lost second row Brittany Rose for Saturday as she tweaked a muscle in her shoulder in a scrum and team physio Amy Valenta ruled her out until Tuesday’s game.

Friday June 20th.
Everything started to click today. The players finally understood why they are here and you could feel them becoming a team as the level of communication went up and they started to believe in each other. The last scrimmages of the day highlighted the progress the team has made in two days with both forwards and backs playing off each other to produce some great running rugby

The staff at the Ingwenyama Lodge is great and is willing to get us everything we need. They noticed Amy and Brittany sat at the side of the field yesterday and when we went out this morning they had set up large lawn umbrellas for them to sit under. The food is great, weather is mild and perfect for rugby with temps in the mid 40’s in the morning and mid 60’s in the day.

The team is starting to understand what a big deal this event is to the development of the women’s game here. This morning Team Captain Lisa Henneman and the squad’s youngest player Katie Johnson were up early to go to Nelspruit the capital of Mpumalanga Territory where they were interviewed by two radio stations. Within an hour we had someone tell us that they had heard the players on the radio. Saturday’s game against the South Africa U20’s is being staged in a small stadium that holds 6,000 spectators and SA Rugby has arranged for 500 local children to be bussed in for the game. There is a curtain raiser between two boys U9 sides and traditional dancers will perform just before our game. Everyone is thanking us for coming here and the players are starting to understand the role they are playing in the development of the women’s game here.

Team for Saturday will be announced later today.