Dominant Stormers knock Glasgow from URC summit
United Rugby Championship Stormers (24) 48 Tries: Mchunu 2, Roos, Nel, Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Morabe Cons: Feinberg-Mngomezulu 6 Pens: Feinberg-Mngomezulu 2 Glasgow (12) 12 Tries: Smith, Hiddleston Con: Hastings Stormers delivered a dominant victory over Glasgow Warriors in Cape Town to usurp the Scots at the top of the United Rugby Championship table. Two Ntuthuko Mchunu tries and one from Evan Roos put the home side in charge in the first half, with Glasgow responding with scores from Ollie Smith and Gregor Hiddleston. Ruhan Nel, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu and Keke Morabe all crossed after the break as the South African side romped to victory.
Stormers took a grip on the game early. Prop Mchunu crashed over from a clever set-piece move before finishing off a rolling lineout maul for his second try as the home side raced into a 17-0 lead. With Jack Dempsey in the sin-bin, the game was threatening to get away from Glasgow very quickly, but a brilliant break from Sione Tuipulotu led to a try for Smith, who finished superbly to give his team some hope.
That hope was shortlived as Stormers picked up the crumbs from a high contestable kick to shred Warriors' defence with a scintillating counter attack, Evan Roos shrugging off the attentions of Kyle Rowe to score. Five-try Edinburgh win ends Sharks' play-off hopes All the Scottish rugby latest in one place Stormers scrum-half Cobus Reinach was shown a yellow card for halting a Glasgow attack on the South African line, and Warriors made the pressure pay when Hiddleston crashed over to narrow the gap to 12 points heading into half-time. A long-range penalty from Feinberg-Mngomezulu took Stormers' advantage back beyond two scores early in the second half.
A break from Ben Afshar sparked a Glasgow attack that looked destined to end in a try, until Patrick Schickerling spilled the ball with the line in his sights. Adam Hastings was sent to the bin for a high shot on Andre-Hugo Venter that could easily have been upgraded to a red card, but the fly-half escaped with a yellow. Stormers took immediate advantage when Feinberg-Mngomezulu measured a gorgeous grubber into the path of Nel to score the bonus-point try.
Feinberg-Mngomezulu glided over for try number five to cap a fine individual display in which he contributed 23 points, before substitute Morabe put the seal on an emphatic victory by touching down after a powerful rolling maul.