SHOCK! Scarlets blank Franco Smith's Glasgow Warriors
WRAP: Scarlets delivered the upset of the weekend with a dominant 23-0 victory over Glasgow Warriors on Saturday.
The Welsh side crossed for two unanswered tries to claim their first win of the United Rugby Championship season. Captain Josh Macleod and centre Macs Page touched down, while Sam Costelow added two conversions and a penalty to round off the scoring.
Despite the statement win, Scarlets remain bottom of the table on four points — though they do have a game in hand.
Elsewhere, Edinburgh picked up a third win in the United Rugby Championship after they came from behind to beat Ospreys 19-17.
The hosts twice found themselves behind, but second-half tries from Harri Morris and Harry Paterson ultimately gave Edinburgh the victory despite a nervy ending.
Ospreys took a 5-0 lead in the 25th minute thanks to Luke Davies, who started and finished the move, but they were pegged level seven minutes later when Tom Currie found a gap following a succession of penalties.
Ospreys re-established their five-point lead four minutes after the break as Phil Cokanasiga threw a dummy and slipped through to dot down.
But, Edinburgh turned it round with two converted tries in 15 minutes, firstly when Morris capitalised from shoving over the maul before Paterson crossed the whitewash.
Ospreys set up a grandstand finish with six minutes to play after they played it through the hands and Evardi Boshoff bundled his way over the try line for a converted score, but Edinburgh held on.
In the earlier fixture on Saturday, a Daf Hughes first-half hat-trick propelled Cardiff to an important bonus-point win over Zebre Parma.
The hooker rumbled over to touch down from three driving line-outs at Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi.
The Blue and Blacks, wearing their pink alternate strip, soaked up the pressure in the second half, and Taine Basham crashed over for a bonus-point try with the final play.
The scores and scorers:
Zebre Parma 14-29 Cardiff
The scorers:
For Zebre:
Tries: Licata, Zanon
Cons: Farias 2
For Cardiff:
Tries: Hughes 3, Basham
Cons: I Lloyd 2, Wilde
Pen: I Lloyd
Teams
Zebre: 15 Lorenzo Pani, 14 Mirko Belloni, 13 Giulio Bertaccini, 12 Marco Zanon, 11 Simone Gesi, 10 Thomas Roger Farias, 9 Alessandro Fusco, 8 Giovanni Licata (captain), 7 Samuele Locatelli, 6 Davide Ruggeri, 5 Leonard Krumov, 4 Alessandro Ortombina, 3 Matteo Nocera, 2 Tommaso Di Bartolomeo, 1 Muhamed Hasa
Replacements: 16 Giampiero Ribaldi, 17 Paolo Buonfiglio, 18 Juan Pitinari, 19 Giacomo Ferrari, 20 David Odiase, 21 Migael Prinsloo, 22 Giacomo Da Re, 23 Damiano Mazza
Cardiff: 15 Cam Winnett, 14 Mason Grady, 13 Harri Millard, 12 Steff Emanuel, 11 Tom Bowen, 10 Ioan Lloyd, 9 Aled Davies, 8 Alun Lawrence, 7 Dan Thomas, 6 Ben Donnell, 5 George Nott, 4 Josh McNally (captain), 3 Javan Sebastian, 2 Daf Hughes, 1 Rhys Barratt
Replacements: 16 Max Pearce, 17 Ioan Emanuel, 18 Sam Wainwright, 19 James Botham, 20 Taine Basham, 21 Ellis Bevan, 22 Harri Wilde, 23 Cornel Smit
Referee: Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Russo Filippo (Italy) and Riccardo Angelucci (Italy)
TMO: Colin Brett (South Africa)
Edinburgh 19-17 Ospreys
The scorers:
For Edinburgh:
Tries: Currie, Morris, Paterson
Cons: Thomson, Scott
For Ospreys:
Tries: Davies, Cokanasiga, Boshoff
Con: Walsh
Teams
Edinburgh: 15 Wes Goosen, 14 Lewis Wells, 13 Piers O’Conor, 12 Findlay Thomson, 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Ross Thompson, 9 Ben Vellacott, 8 Tom Currie, 7 Ben Muncaster, 6 Liam McConnell, 5 Grant Gilchrist (captain), 4 Callum Hunter-Hill, 3 Paul Hill, 2 Harri Morris, 1 Pierre Schoeman
Replacements: 16 Dylan Richardson, 17 Boan Venter, 18 Ollie Blyth-Lafferty, 19 Marshall Sykes, 20 Magnus Bradbury, 21 Conor McAlpine, 22 Cammy Scott, 23 Harry Paterson
Ospreys: 15 Max Nagy, 14 Daniel Kasende, 13 Evardi Boshoff, 12 Phil Cokanasiga, 11 Iestyn Hopkins, 10 Jack Walsh (co-captain), 9 Luke Davies, 8 Ross Moriarty, 7 Gwilym Evans, 6 Lewis Lloyd, 5 Huw Sutton, 4 Ryan Smith, 3 Tom Botha, 2 Sam Parry (co-captain), 1 Cameron Jones
Replacements: 16 Efan Daniel, 17 Steffan Thomas, 18 Kian Hire, 19 Lewis Jones, 20 Will Greatbanks, 21 Scott Whitlock, 22 Luke Morgan, 23 Harri Houston
Referee: Peter Martin (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Finlay Brown (Scotland) and Ciaran Stark (Scotland)
TMO: Brian McNeice (Ireland)
Scarlets 23-0 Glasgow Warriors
The scorers:
For Scarlets:
Tries: Maclead, Page
Cons: Costelow 2
Pens: Costelow
For Glasgow Warriors: NONE
Yellow card: Harvey Cuckson (Scarlets, 72)
Teams
Scarlets: 15 Jac Davies, 14 Iori Badham, 13 Macs Page, 12 Eddie James, 11 Tomi Lewis, 10 Sam Costelow, 9 Gareth Davies, 8 Fletcher Anderson, 7 Josh Macleod (captain), 6 Max Douglas, 5 Sam Lousi, 4 Jake Ball, 3 Archer Holz, 2 Ryan Elias,1 Kemsley Mathias
Replacements: 16 Marnus van der Merwe, 17 Sam O’Connor, 18 Henry Thomas, 19 Harvey Cuckson, 20 Dan Davis, 21 Dane Blacker, 22 Carwyn Leggatt-Jones, 23 Gabe McDonald
Glasgow Warriors: 15 Josh McKay, 14 Kyle Rowe, 13 Ollie Smith, 12 Stafford McDowall (captain), 11 Kerr Johnston, 10 Dan Lancaster, 9 Ben Afshar, 8 Macenzzie Duncan, 7 Angus Fraser, 6 Gregor Brown, 5 Jare Oguntibeju, 4 Alex Craig, 3 Patrick Schickerling, 2 Johnny Matthews, 1 Jamie Bhatti
Replacements: 16 Gregor Hiddleston, 17 Nathan McBeth, 18 Sam Talakai, 19 Max Williamson, 20 Alex Samuel, 21 Ally Miller, 22 George Horne, 23 Adam Hastings
Referee: Chris Allison (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Ben Whitehouse (Wales) and Adam Jones (Wales)
TMO: Morne Ferreira (South Africa)
