a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TAeU8Zj0iHI/AAAAAAAAENU/EHjZWO9ilYA/s1600/samoa-edinburgh-sevens.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TAeU8Zj0iHI/AAAAAAAAENU/EHjZWO9ilYA/s400/samoa-edinburgh-sevens.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478511237093689458" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Samoa grabbed their first ever IRB World Series Sevens title on the weekend when they beat England in the semi final of the Edinburgh Sevens. They then went on to beat Australia 44-14 in the final, taking the Edinburgh title as well. /spanbr /br /It was the final leg of the series, held in Murrayfield in front of a passionate crowd who got to see a feast of rugby over the two days in Scotland’s capital.br /br /The semifinal win over England was a classic, which will be featured here if the interest is high. They won that 15-12 in extra time, meaning they won the title as they couldn’t be caught by their closest challengers, New Zealand.br /br /For New Zealand to have won the series, they needed to win the tournament and hope that Samoa got knocked out before the final. This didn’t happen, meaning it’s the first time that the Kiwi’s have not won a title in two years.br /br /They lost 24-19 to Australia in their semifinal, but couldn’t stand up to the might and pace of the Samoans in the final, where star player Mikaele Pesamino scored a hatrick.br /br /"I'm still pretty lost for words. I'm sure they'll be partying back home now and I think they'll party all the way until we get back home," said Samoa’s coach Stephen Betham.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wsxR-vbF12Aamp;hl=en_GBamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wsxR-vbF12Aamp;hl=en_GBamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span05:04/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-5908859089281585174?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=6pdPndQlLhY:a8xofBsqmis:yIl2AUoC8zA"im g src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/6pdPndQlLhY" height="1" width="1"/

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