The DHL Stormers scored all of the points in the second half to pick up a 26-10 win in their Vodacom United Rugby Championship clash with Ospreys at DHL Stadium on Friday night.
The three-try victory makes it two wins from two at home for the DHL Stormers this season, with a three-match tour to Europe their next challenge.
The visitors struck early as scrumhalf Kieran Hardy snuck over for the opening try next to an attacking ruck on the tryline.
The DHL Stormers responded with a sustained attack which ended when Evan Roos got on the end of a cross-kick from Jurie Matthee to level matters at 5-5.
Hardy had his second as he finished a set attack from a scrum, but the home side had the final say in the first half with a Jurie Matthee penalty which narrowed the defecit to 8-10 at half-time.
The DHL Stormers came out with real intent in the second half and two Matthee penalties put them four points ahead before a sweeping backline move was finished by fullback Wandi Simelane.
Matthee landed the touchline conversion and it wasn’t long before he was lining up another one as Paul de Villiers broke off from a maul to score the third try.
That left them with 10 minutes to hunt the fourth try and a bonus point, but it was not to be.
The scorers:
For DHL Stormers:
Tries: Roos, Simelane, De Villiers
Cons: Matthee
Pens: Matthee 2
For Ospreys:
Tries: Hardy 2
DHL Stormers: 15 Wandisile Simelane, 14 Seabelo Senatla, 13 Ruhan Nel (captain), 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Leolin Zas, 10 Jurie Matthee, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Connor Evans, 6 Marcel Theunissen, 5 JD Schickerling, 4 Adré Smith, 3 Neethling Fouché, 2 André-Hugo Venter, 1 Vernon Matongo.
Replacements: 16 JJ Kotze, 17 Ali Vermaak, 18 Sazi Sandi, 19 Ruben van Heerden, 20 Ben-Jason Dixon, 21 Paul de Villiers, 22 Stefan Ungerer, 23 Clinton Swart.
