Pumas put UJ to the sword
The Pumas scored a convincing 35-12 win over the University of Johannesburg in a lively pre-season encounter in Witbank on Friday night.
With the Pumas’ and UJ’s second teams playing a ‘curtain-raiser’ to the ‘main’ match, the newly-promoted Currie Cup Premier Division team got off to a blistering start in the second encounter with two early tries.
UJ flyhalf André Smith – his team’s standout backline player – scored one of their two tries (the other coming from loose forward Justin Wheeler) and he also converted one of the five-pointers.
“It could’ve been closer in the end had we finished better,” lamented UJ head coach Hugo van As in conversation with the suparugby.com website afterwards.
UJ – who are yet to qualify for the semifinals of the FNB Varsity Cup presented by Steinhoff International – will get their 2010 Varsity Cup campaign underway against TUT in Pretoria next Monday (kick-off 4.30pm).
The scorers:
For the Pumas:
Tries: Eduaan van der Walt 2, Siviwe Magaba, Nicky Kritzinger, Elgar Watts
Cons: Braam Pretorius 5
For UJ:
Tries: André Smith, Justin Wheeler
Con: Smith
