Highlights: Blues cruise past Highlanders
Former rugby league superstar Roger Tuivasa-Sheck scored his first Super Rugby Pacific try as the Blues thumped the Highlanders at Eden Park to advance to next week’s semi-finals.
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Former rugby league superstar Roger Tuivasa-Sheck scored his first Super Rugby Pacific try as the Blues thumped the Highlanders at Eden Park to advance to next week’s semi-finals.
A brace of tries from captain Brad Weber helped the Chiefs end the Waratahs’ gallant revival season with a comfortable victory in the Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final in Hamilton on Saturday.
The Crusaders used their powerful pack to devastating effect as they advanced to the Super Rugby Pacific semi-finals with a hard-fought victory over the Reds in Christchurch on Friday.
The Pumas handed the Cheetahs their second straight Currie Cup defeat after holding on for a crucial one-point victory in Bloemfontein on Friday.
An injury-time try by Luther Obi, coolly converted by George Whitehead, saw Griquas snatch a dramatic win over Western Province at the Danie Craven Stadium on Friday.
The Blitzboks bounced back from a dismal showing in Toulouse last week to go unbeaten in the pool stage of the London Sevens on Saturday.
Griquas served up a sensational shock in Kimberley on Saturday as they became the first team to defeat the Cheetahs in this season’s Currie Cup.
The Lions picked up their first Currie Cup victory of the season at the 11th attempt, defeating Western Province in a bonus-point win at Ellis Park on Saturday.
Despite losing captain Sekope Kepu to a red card in his 150th match, bottom-of-the-log Moana Pasifika claimed a sensational Super Rugby Pacific victory over the Brumbies in Auckland on Saturday.
Springbok wing Cheslin Kolbe dived over for what proved to be a consolation try as Toulon were convincingly beaten by Lyon in Friday’s European Challenge Cup final in Marseille.