The Stormers bounced back from last week's shock loss to the Ospreys in the United Rugby Championship with a 42-12 defeat to Leinster in Cape Town on Saturday.
John Dobson's side finished the round in fifth place on the basis of maximum points, but Leinster's back-to-back defeats in South Africa meant they surrendered their top spot to Glasgow.
Warriors' bonus point win over Zebre Parma earlier in the day means the Scottish side hold a four-point advantage at the top with three rounds remaining.
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The dominant South African team earned a bonus point win with tries from Ben Roeder, Samaan Moellert, Herschel Jantjies, Willie Engelbrecht and Warwick Guerin, with flyhalf Manny Livbok converting four and hitting three. Including the penalty, his individual score was 17.
Leinster scored tries from Max Deegan and Rob Russell, with Sam Prendergast adding the conversion.
After a mistake-filled opening four minutes, the Stormers first took advantage when Roeder latched on to a loose pass from Cormac Foley and landed half a length down the field under the posts for Livbok to send in. was. It's not a simple conversion.
Leinster were then penalized for offside at a ruck, and Livbok extended their lead to 10–0 midway through the first half, extending their advantage further with a further penalty 10 minutes before the interval.
Before the Stormers could prove their dominance, Livbok added his third penalty and as the clock read red, Moerato broke through from the penalty advantage and converted for Livbok to make it 23-0 up and score his second try of the night. I decided.
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The Stormers picked up where they left off immediately after the restart. Jantjies picked up the ball from a ruck, darted between some lackluster Leinster cover tackles and ran towards the line without resistance.
However, Leinster did not lie down and fought their way back into the game, breaking powerfully from close range after Deegan was penalized five meters out, breaking through down the left and playing an inside pass that allowed Russell to slip in. At some point, I turned to a provider. .
The Stormers earned a bonus point with substitute Engelbrecht breaking through a weak tackle from Henry McErlean to score a touchdown and Geraint scoring the winning goal with a brilliant individual try.
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Stormers: 15 Warwick Geraint, 14 Suleiman Hartzenberg, 13 Dan du Plessis, 12 Damian Willemse, 11 Ben Roeder, 10 Manny Rybok, 9 Herschel Jantjes, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Ben Jason Dixon , 6 Marcel Teunissen, 5 Ruben van Heerden, 4 Salman Moerat (c), 3 Neesling Fouche, 2 Josef Dweba, 1 Brock Harris
Replacement: 16 Andre-Hugo Venter, 17 Kwenzo Brose, 18 Frans Malherbe, 19 Connor Evans, 20 Willy Engelbrecht, 21 Hajiba Deimani, 22 Stefan Ungerer, 23 Wandisile Simelane
Leinster: 15 Henry McElean, 14 Liam Turner, 13 Ben Brownlee, 12 Charlie Ngatai, 11 Rob Russell, 10 Sam Prendergast, 9 Cormac Foley, 8 Max Deegan, 7 Scott Penny (c) , 6 Reece Ruddock, 5 Jason Jenkins, 4 Brian Deeney, 3 Michael Alaalatoa, 2 John Mackie, 1 Michael Milne
Replacement: 16 Gus McCarthy, 17 Ed Byrne, 18 Thomas Clarkson, 19 Conor Otianei, 20 Diarmuid Mangan, 21 Fintan Gunn, 22 Charlie Tector, 23 Martin Moloney
Referee: Andrea Piardi (FIR)
Assistant referee: Marius van der Westhuizen (SARU), Christopher Allison (SARU)
TMO: Gianluca Gnecki (FIR)
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