False Bay pips SK Walmer in tough SLA clash

It was a much-anticipated clash which delivered some of the most sparkling rugby yet seen in this year's Western Province Rugby Football Union (WPRFU) Super League A to date.

- JON HARRIS

An eagerly anticipated clash between False Bay and SK Walmers at Constantia on Saturday, the hosts exiting 43-34 victors after leading 26-10 at half time.

The sun-kissed Philip Herbstein fields were a perfect setting for what promised to be an exciting day of club rugby. The build-up to the main event was befitting a contest between two clubs eyeing top six places for the knockout stage.

What followed was a spectacle of running rugby, one which Danny Jones, the general manager of amateur rugby at the WPRFU, could share as a measure of the high standard of the game under his care.

The intensity of the contest was there for all to see from the first shrill blast of referee Joubert Labuschagne's whistle, and it is only fair to say that his officiating contributed to the occasion in no small way.

The first ten minutes of the contest heralded what turned out to be a breathtaking affair.

The intensity of the contest, the pace, the accuracy, and the skill were hallmarks of the match. False Bay's first of six tries was scintillating, a sweeping move from one touch line to the other, which saw one of the Bay's two battery bunnies, Jacques Goosen, cross for the first of his brace of tries. Later, the other busy bunny with similar headgear, Daniel Hayes, bagged his customary try.