Late Porter try ends the Sale comeback after Dugdale double

By ROB WILDMAN

Leicester ......32pts
Tries: Van Poortvliet 18, Porter 79
Conversions: Hegarty 18, Lancaster 79
Penalties: Hegarty 8, 17, 23, 40, 42; Lancaster 54

Sale ................23pts
Tries: Reed 26, Dugdale 57, 69
Conversions: Curtis 26
Penalties: Curtis 3, 51
LEICESTER needed a try in the final minute from centre Guy Porter to edge out a Sale team who had threatened to nick this bitty contest.
Porter crashed over from close range to quell a Sale comeback after Leicester had led 22-10 early in the second half.
Sale, who scored three tries to two, had fought back after conc...

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