Western Province ran in two tries in each half to crown their bonus point victory and flyhalf Demetri Catrakilis was in fine form.
Jacques Botes scored a brace of tries to help the Sharks maintain their 100% start to the Absa Currie Cup with a 43-34 victory over the Cheetahs
Griquas confidently beat the Pumas 40-33 in their Absa Currie Cup match in Nelspruit on Friday.
The Cheetahs and Blue Bulls will be fighting for supremacy at the coast on Saturday in their respective Absa Currie Cup clashes.
Lock forward Flip van der Merwe and fullback Gio Aplon will return home from the Springboks’ Tri-Nations Series tour on Wednesday.
The Lions romped home with a first-half try fest to secure a thumping 49-11 Currie Cup victory over Griquas in Kimberley on Saturday.
Blue Bulls coach Pine Pienaar commended his team for their character in their 33-30 victory over the Free State Cheetahs at Loftus Versfeld.
Defending Currie Cup champions Sharks clinched a 23-22 win over the Pumas in Nelspruit on Friday night.
The Lions have made three changes to their run-on team to face Griquas in an Absa Currie Cup match in Kimberley on Saturday.
The Cheetahs walked over the Leopards with a thumping 40-12 victory in a Currie Cup clash in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
The untried Western Province combination had to settle for a 26-all draw against Griquas in their Currie Cup match at Newlands on Saturday.
Lions mentor John Mitchell was not impressed with his team’s performance after narrowly beating the Pumas 31-27 in Johannesburg on Friday.
The new season of the Absa Currie Cup begins when Lions host the Pumas in Johannesburg in what has been labelled as a crucial match for the hosts.
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/ 31 October 2010
Sharks coach John Plumtree said the 54 000 spectators at the Absa stadium played a huge part in his team securing a 30-10 victory.
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/ 30 October 2010
Sharks young flyhalf Patrick Lambie scored 25 points in a 30-10 triumph over Western Province on Saturday in the Currie Cup final.
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/ 29 October 2010
Notwithstanding a poor international season, the anticipation ahead of the Currie Cup finalsuggests that the game in SA is in rude health.
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/ 27 October 2010
Western Province opted for the tried and tested when they named their side to play against the Sharks in Saturday’s Currie Cup final in Durban.
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/ 18 October 2010
Western Province coach Allister Coetzee has banished his squad from its training base for a few days in an effort to combat player fatigue.
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/ 16 October 2010
Western Province reached the Currie Cup final for the first time since 2001 following their awe-inspiring 31-7 win over the Free State Cheetahs.
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/ 15 October 2010
It seems that the South African Rugby Union has decided to give Peter de Villiers one last chance to prove his credentials.
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/ 10 October 2010
Western Province were far more impressive than their match-winning 33-21 scoreline against the Sharks suggested.
It would have been fairly simple before the Currie Cup season began to predict the identities of the four semifinalists.
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/ 17 September 2010
Young flyhalf Elton Jantjies has been instrumental in the Lions’ Currie Cup comeback.
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/ 18 February 2010
The Blue Bulls have released lock Wilhelm Steenkamp on loan to the Sharks for the remainder of the Super 14 .
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/ 18 January 2010
Springbok flanker and former Golden Lions captain, Wikus van Heerden, has signed with the Lions until 2012.
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/ 12 October 2009
John Smit back at hooker? That could be the surprise the Sharks come up with for Saturday’s Currie Cup semifinal against the Free State Cheetahs.
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/ 29 September 2009
There will be a decided Oceania presence in the Western Province backline when Matt Toomua and Sireli Naqelevuki run out at Newlands on Saturday.
Even though the Griquas might owe their success to the absence of Springboks in the tournament, they’ve been playing stellar rugby.
It has been 117 years since the Currie Cup was presented for the first time and never has it been more of a political hot potato.
The confidence gained in winning the Vodacom Cup will make Griquas a factor to be reckoned with in the Currie Cup rugby competition.
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/ 5 December 2008
After their unexpected win in Dubai, can the national Sevens team defy probability yet again in George?
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/ 25 October 2008
The Sharks won the Absa Currie Cup for the first time since 1996 when they beat the Blue Bulls in a hard, uncompromising final in Durban on Saturday.