Brumbies win emotional Super 14 rugby 17-10 match over Stormers
The ACT Brumbies, playing their first match since the death six days ago of teammate Shawn Mackay, beat South Africa's Stormers 17-10 on Saturday in a Super 14 match.
Mackay, a 26-year-old back-row forward, died in a Durban, South Africa hospital last Monday from injuries sustained when he was hit by a car following a Super 14 game.
The Brumbies, 5-3 this season, led 9-0 at halftime after three penalties by Mark Gerrard. Rain began to fall in the ninth minute and continued for the remainder of the match in cold conditions.
Captain Jean de Villiers scored the Cape Town-based Stormers' try two minutes into the second half, evading two tacklers, and Peter Grant converted to pull the visitors to within two points.
But Patrick Phibbs, a former teammate of Mackay's at Waverley College in Sydney, then scored the Brumbies' only try. Gerrard added a fourth penalty for the hosts, before Grant kicked a Stormers penalty.
Before the match Saturday, the Brumbies players formed a circle on the ground to join a minute's applause for Mackay, with some wiping tears from their eyes with their jerseys.
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Brumbies win emotional Super 14 rugby 17-10 match over Stormers
