SuperSport Rugby Challenge semi-finalists confirmed
Defending champions, Pumas will meet Boland and Western Province will face Griquas next Sunday in the semi-finals of the 2019 edition of the SuperSport Rugby Challenge.
Both matches will be played at KaNyamazane Stadium near Nelspruit on Sunday, June 16 in the penultimate Rugby Festival of the competition, to determine who will travel to the West Coast on Sunday, June 23 where the final will be played at the Saldanha Sports Stadium.
The last finalist was only determined earlier on Sunday at the Rugby Festival in Ravensmead, where Boland scored a nail-biting 22-21 win over DHL WP. This result at Florida Park meant that the Cape side edged their Winelands counterparts on the narrowest of points’ difference, with both sides finishing on 30 log points.
WP ended with a points’ difference of 147, edging Boland’s 146 in the tightest finish possible.
On Saturday, the Free State Cheetahs XV moved past the Boland into second place on the log in the South Section with a strong 82-7 win over Border and then had to wait to see if their hard work would be rewarded. The Bloem men will be gutted, but still finished ahead of more fancied opponents such as the Sharks XV.
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