The Blue Bulls returned to their winning ways with a thorough 36-12 win over the Boland Cavaliers in their Currie Cup match at Loftus Versfeld on Friday evening. In securing their victory, the Bulls scored five tries, two in an uninspiring first half and three in the second.
The Bulls began slowly and to open their account grabbed three points from the boot of Derick Hougaard in the eighth minute before John Mametsa scored in the corner two minutes later in a try that involved the TMO.
The men from Loftus looked sharp when competing on the ground and in the lineouts, an area where they have been suffering in the last two weeks.
Boland were also able to contain the Bulls to minor drives that failed to produce anything, but the Bulls were able to catch Boland napping in the 23rd minute when Marius Delport ran in the Bulls’s second try of the evening.
Delport was the lucky recipient of a JP Joubert tap-and-go and was able to beat three tackles from Boland.
In the 40th minute and trailing by 15 points, Boland fullback Justin Peach tiptoed past the Bulls’s defence to score between the poles on the stroke of halftime.
The Bulls hit back two minutes into the second half when Mametsa crashed over for his second try to extend the lead to 22-7.
Mametsa’s try galvanised the Bulls into action and ten minutes later they were on the scoreboard again when Derick Kuun scored a bonus-point try from another Joubert penalty.
Boland were handed a consolation try two minutes later when Jongi Nokwe crashed over but then JP Nel scored the Bulls’s last try in the 69th minute after breaking the Boland defence. – Sapa