Maddison Levi has turn into probably the most prolific strive scorer in Australian rugby historical past, blasting previous her idol Charlotte Caslick’s sevens tally on the Hong Kong Sevens.
At simply 22 years of age, the outstanding Gold Coast athlete set the brand new benchmark on Friday as she racked up one other seven tries in simply two matches on the largest event on the Sevens World Collection circuit.
Whereas scoring a hat-trick within the opening 54-12 win over Spain after which going over for 4 extra within the 26-15 victory towards Canada, strive machine Levi took her tally to 189 over simply 4 spectacular years to eclipse her heroine and teammate Caslick’s mark of 186.
“Charlotte has been my idol and she or he’s been my mentor all through all of the years,” stated Levi, saluting her 30-year-old teammate Caslick, who’s presently pursuing her ambitions within the 15-a-side sport, hoping to play with Wallaroos on the World Cup later this 12 months.
“For her to have the ability to assist me get to the extent I can play at is fairly superior, however information do not actually matter to me.”
In a youthful aspect, Levi, who’s been out of motion since fracturing her thumb within the Perth Sevens in January, merely carried on the place she left off because the World Collection’ high scorer at Hong Kong’s new Kai Tak Stadium, taking her tally to 37 for the season.
Caslick’s absence additionally gave an opportunity to Queenslander Amahli Hala to make a terrific debut, scoring towards Spain, whereas Ruby Nicholas, Isabella Nasser, Religion Nathan and Piper Simons additionally added to Levi’s hat-trick.
Australia then sealed their quarter-final spot with Levi’s tour de drive towards the Canadians.
In the meantime, Australia’s males had a combined day, happening to New Zealand 21-12 of their opener earlier than producing a much better efficiency to finish the primary day with a 26-7 victory over South Africa’s ‘Blitzboks’.
Towards the New Zealanders, Liam Barry’s workforce had been 21-0 down earlier than they rallied with tries from Aden Ekanayake and Jayden Blake.
However co-captain Henry Paterson proved the star of their subsequent, must-win contest, crossing for 2 tries to assist put them into an unassailable 26-point lead, whereas Matt Gonzalez and Josh Turner additionally scored.
“We had been fairly upset with that first effort right this moment towards New Zealand however we weren’t far off,” stated Paterson, whose aspect might want to beat Uruguay of their closing pool match to seal a last-eight spot.
“To return out and repair them towards South Africa and arrange the remainder of the weekend is actually encouraging.”
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