Pienaar keeps control to guide Cheetahs home

Currie Cup Final
By DAN LYON

Cheetahs ..........25pts
Tries: Fortuin 29, Jasper 39, Kruger 52
Conversions: Pienaar 40, 53
Penalties: Pienaar 5, 21

Pumas................ 17pts
Tries: Mgijima 34
Penalties: de Beer 18, 24, 43, 49
THE Cheetahs claimed their seventh Currie Cup title with a three tries to one victory over the defending champions, Pumas.
Former Springbok Ruan Pienaar, 39, gave a masterful display of how to control a game from fly-half – assured with the boot, both with ball in hand and off the kicking tee, as centre Reinhardt Fortuin, wing Cohen Jasper an...

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