Malcolm Marx and five Saffa teammates booked their place in the Japan Rugby League One final as SA’s foreign legion impressed across Europe and Japan.
French Top 14
James Hall started at scrumhalf in Perpignan’s 29-27 win against Castres at the Stade Aime Giral.
Former Stormers scrumhalf Herschel Jantjies scored a second-half try in Bayonne’s 38-21 defeat to Stade Français, who had Jeremy Ward in midfield.
Loose forward Sikhumbuzo Notshe scored a try for Montauban in a crushing 71-15 loss to La Rochelle.
Tiaan Jacobs was in Bordeaux Bègles’ second row during a 27-22 defeat to Toulon.
English Premiership
Centre Benhard Janse van Rensburg‘s Bristol Bears edged coach Johann van Graan’s Bath 21-19 at Ashton Gate. Springbok prop Thomas du Toit crossed the whitewash for Bath, while prop Franz van Wyk came off the bench.
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Scrumhalf Ivan van Zyl ran out for Saracens in a 26-12 win against Harlequins.
Flank James Venter and prop Dian Bleuler packed down for Gloucester in their 36-32 defeat to the Northampton Saints.
Lock Ernst van Rhyn and replacement loose forward Hyron Andrews featured for the Sale Sharks in a 45-42 loss to the Newcastle Red Bulls.
Hooker Joseph Dweba and prop Ethan Burger came off the bench in the Exeter Chiefs’ 35-26 win against flank Hanro Liebenberg‘s Leicester Tigers.
Japan Rugby League One
Winger Cheslin Kolbe kicked 13 points in the Tokyo Suntory Sungoliath’s heavy 69-23 semi-final defeat to the Kobe Steelers in Tokyo.
Nine South Africans featured in the semi-final between the Kubota Spears and Saitama Wild Knights in Tokyo. Hooker Malcolm Marx, locks David Bulbring and Tyler Paul, centre Rikus Pretorius and replacement forwards Merwe Olivier and Lappies Labuschagne helped the Spears claim a 26-24 victory, while centre Damian de Allende and replacement forwards Juan Wilson and Ockie Barnard represented the Wild Knights.
Springbok No 8 Jasper Wiese started on the flank in the Urayasu D-Rocks’ 57-19 relegation playoff win against the Shimzu Blue Sharks.
Lukhanyo Am marshalled the midfield in the Mitsubishi Dynaboars’ 52-28 win against the Shuttles Aichi in Kanagawa. Pieter Scholtz started at tighthead prop for the Dynaboars.
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