The Lions brought the curtain down on their Vodacom United Rugby Championship campaign with a bonus-point victory against last-placed Zebre at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. URC
The Lions brought the curtain down on their Vodacom United Rugby Championship campaign with a bonus-point victory against last-placed Zebre at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
The 50-35 victory boosted the men from Johannesburg into ninth place with a 9-9 record and qualifies them for the Challenge Cup again next season. In a match that featured 13 tries, the Lions scored eight of them, scrumhalf Sanele Nohamba and wing Edwill van der Merwe each scoring a brace while Nohamba added five conversions for an individual haul of 20 points.
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