bok women go down fighting springbok women’s coach stanley raubenheimer praised his team’s character despite suffering a 38--15 defeat in their series decider against scotland at the city park stadium in cape town on saturday 5 october, where they were outscored six tries to two. scotland made better use of their chances in the first half and crossed the try line three times, while the springbok women were only able to score a penalty goal, which saw them enter the break 19--3 down. the second half was competitive as scotland added three tries – the last of which was on the stroke of fulltime – while the springbok women touched down twice. “the result is obviously disappointing, but i am satisfied with the performance and the character the team showed,” said raubenheimer. “we competed well, our defence was a little better than monday, although a few errors there once again cost us, and some of the young players came through nicely. we did, however, give away 21 points, which we are not happy about. that said, i was particularly impressed with the way the team fought and got better as the match pro--