Wins for Castres and Connacht

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French side Castres kept their hopes of qualification alive with a narrow 9-6 win in .
Scott Wight kicked two successful penalties for the Scots to answer to Rory Kockott as both teams went into the break with the score leveled at 6-6.
The second half was closely matched but Kockott gave the French the win with a third penalty of the game 20 minutes from time.
Meanwhile in Galway, secured a 22-14 win over French giants to keep the pressure on at the top of Pool 3.
They led 10-9 at the break thanks to a turnover try from winger Fetu’u Vainikolo against three penalties from Dimitry Yachvili for the Basques.
The Irish went 16-9 up after two penalties from Dan Parks and the former fly-half sealed the win eight minutes from time with a drop goal before adding another penalty for good measure.
Imanol Harinordoquy went over for Biarritz on the last play of the game but Yachvili missed  the conversion to prevent them from picking up a vital losing bonus-point.
Read both reports and analysis in Sunday’s edition of The Paper.

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