False Bay bags win in tough Cape winter conditions

Motorvaps False Bay struck back from a spirited start by their opponents and swept a hapless St Georges RFC of Strand aside at Constantia on Saturday.

- JON HARRIS

The Bay put last week's 36-12 defeat against Villager behind them, to score fifty unanswered points in the second half, the final score being 85-14.

False Bay’s First XV took to the pitch well-prepared, with an expansive game plan on the whiteboard in the cloak rooms. With the confidence and exuberance of support players being given the stage to strut their stuff, the Constantia team was full of running from the outset. They struck early, in fact twice, with two well-worked tries, the second particularly impressive, starting in their own half and finishing with flank Mitch Laberte hitting the afterburners for a twenty-meter touchdown. Fly-half Ewan Adams converted both.

It is apt at this stage to refer to the corresponding fixture of SLA2024. Played at the end of July in the Strand, the match took place despite heavy rainfall in the build-up, resulting in a waterlogged pitch with torrential rains and gale-force winds sweeping the region.