United beat UNAM

WINDHOEK, 07 JUL  – United Rugby Club beat University of Namibia (UNAM) in a tightly contested rugby match played on Friday evening at the UNAM Stadium in the capital.
Both teams missed penalties in the first three minutes of the game before Nandivatu Karuuombe scored the first try for United in the fourth minute which captain Winmar Rust converted.
United scored their second try five minutes later through Darryl Vries and Rust converted.
In the 18th, it was UNAM’s turn to register their first points of the match when captain Bradley Klazen dotted over the white line. Helarius Kisting converted but their hopes of a quick comeback were quickly banished as Riaan van Zyl added a try for United.
Rust made no mistake to put his side further ahead on points.
Jeandre Cloete forced his way over the United line but Kisting missed, leaving his side trailing by 19 to 21 points at halftime.
United came back even stronger in the second half as Karuuombe combined with Henry Kandjou to score a beautiful try – Rust missed the conversion.
They then scored two more penalties after putting a lot of pressure on the UNAM team which was clearly losing their discipline.
With the match seemingly running away from them, UNAM made three quick substitutions and one of them, Lorenzo Louis immediately scored and converted the try for his team to register their first points of the second half.
Camlo Martin added another try immediately which was not converted by Louis, to close the gap to 31-32 points with less than 10 minutes remaining.
Sensing danger, United added two more penalties and a drop goal from Chris Swanepoel before UNAM scored a try through Silvano Beukes which was not converted, to leave the final score at 36-41 in favour of the Olympia-based team.
Meanwhile, Wanderers beat Rehoboth 69-0 after leading 27-0 at halftime the same day and the results saw both United and Wanderers securing their semi-final playoff spots.
UNAM top the log on 52 points, Wanderers (41) are second, United (40) third and Western Suburbs fourth on 39 points.
(NAMPA)