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WP win Craven Week Final

By Paul Dobson
Saturday 13 Jul 2013

Western Province met the Golden Lions in the prestigious last match at the 2013 Craven Week, since 1971 the match which has, unofficially, decided the best side at the Craven Week. Western Province won 45-29.

In fact in the first half it seemed that they were going to run away with the match as they led 23-0 at the break and were untroubled by anything that the Golden Lions did. But the Golden Lions showeld pride and steel as they came back strongly in the second half, scoring 29 points. But Western Province seemed to have the ability to keep nudging ahead. Whore the Golden Lions tended to play a great deal with one-pass phases and lots of charging, Western Province was happier to play wide and set their speedsters running.

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Scorers:

For Western Province:

Tries: Daniel du Plessis, Herschel Jantjies, Dewald Naude, Jacques Vermeulen, Thomas du Toit

Cons: Grant Hermanus  4

Pens: Grant Hermanus  4

For Golden Lions:

Tries: Erwin Harris, Johan Esterhuizen, S'busiso Nkosi, Innocent Radebe

Cons: Erwin Harris  2, Innocent Radebe

Pen: Erwin Harris

Teams

 

Western Province: 15 Heinrich Buhr, 14 Grant Hermanus, 13 Jarryd Sage, 12 Daniel du Plessis, 11 Dewald Naude, 10 Dennis Cox, 9 Herschel Jantjies, 8 Petrus Bothma (Captain), 7 Johannes Vermeulen, 6 Charlton Jonas, 5 Johannes Momsen, 4 Cornelis van Niekerk, 3 Francois van der Merwe, 2 Daniel du Plessis, 1 Thomas du Toit, 16 Rudolf Brits, 17 Gavin van den Berg, 18 Brett Paulse, 19 Saud Abrahams, 20 Damian Stevens, 21 Siyamthanda Alam, 22 Dante van der Merwe

Golden Lions:  15 Erwin Harris, 14 S'busiso Nkosi, 13 Fernando Kermis,   12 Gerdus van der Walt, 11 Jshegofatso Ramaboea, 10 Innocent Radebe, 9 Johan Esterhuizen, 8 Devon Henson, 7 Dylan Vlok (captain), 6 Dwayne Pienaar, 5 Nyasha David Tarusenga, 4 Rhyno Herbst, 3 Gunther Janse van Vuuren,   2 Joseph Dweba, 1 Andrew Acton, 16 Emmanuel Morowane, 17 Cornelius Greeff, 18 Roan Grobbelaar, 19 Reynard Schindehutte, 20 Brandan Rieck, 21 Erick Fourie, 22 Sbusiso Dlamini  

Referee: Lihan Pretorius

Assistant referees: Jaco Kotze, Attie Buitendag

Television match official: Johan Greef

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