The Suzuki Griquas started like a house on fire, however, they had to fight the whole eighty minutes to beat DHL Western Province 37-29.
The Griquas dominated the first twenty minutes of the match, adding a converted penalty and a try by Dylan Maart to the scorecard to the penalty by Jurie Mathee to lead 10-03.
Griquas continued to dominate, and when Dylan Sjoblom bulldozed his way over the tryline to extend the host's lead to 17-03, they seemed to be well on their way to yet another win over Western Province.
However, a yellow card shown to the host saw Western Province up their tempo on the attack and tries by Marcel Theunissen and Dan du Plessis within two minutes cut the hosts' lead to 20-15, which was also the halftime score.
The Western Province continued to dominate, and after thirteen minutes of play, captain Dan du Plessis cruised past the halfhearted defence of the Griquas. Western Province took the lead for the first time in the match with 22-20.
Six minutes later, Griquas' captain, Marco de Witt, crossed the whitewash with a storming run to score the hosts' third try of the match and reclaim the lead.
With twelve minutes to play, the combination of Jurie Matthee and Damian Markus saw Markus taking a brilliant soft pass from Matthee to score Western Province's fourth and bonus-point try to lead 29-27.
With two minutes to go Griquas attacked from within their own 22m and Bobby Alexander ended off a hundred-meter try to beat the DHL Western Province 37-29.
Scorers:
Suzuki Griquas: Tries: Dylan Maart, Dylan Sjoblom, Marco de Witt, Bobby Alexander. Conversions: Zinedine Robinson (4). Penalties: Zinedine Robinson (3)
DHL Western Province: Tries: Marcel Theunissen, Dan du Plessis (2), Damian Markus. Conversions: Jurie Matthee (3). Penalty: Jurie Matthee.
Teams:
Suzuki Griquas: 15 Connor Mahoney, 14 Dylan Maart, 13 Zane Bester, 12 Tertius Kruger, 11 Sako Makata, 10 Lubabalo Dobela, 9 Thomas Bursey, 8 Carl Els, 7 Marco de Witt (c), 6 Thabo Ndimande, 5 Derik Pretorius, 4 Dylan Sjoblom, 3 Janu Botha, 2 Dandre Delport, 1 Leon Lyons. Replacements: 16 Gustav du Rand, 17 Eddie Davids, 18 Cebo Dlamini, 19 Albert Liebenberg, 20 Hanru Sirgel, 21 Bobby Alexander, 22 Zinedine Robinson, 23 Mnombo Zwelendaba.
Western Province: 15 Luke Burger, 14 Angelo Davids, 13 Suleiman Hartzenberg, 12 Dan du Plessis (c), 11 Leolin Zas, 10 Jurie Matthee, 9 Paul de Wet, 8 Louw Nel, 7 Dave Ewers, 6 Marcel Theunissen, 5 JD Schickerling, 4 Ruben van Heerden, 3 Neethling Fouche, 2 Joseph Dweba, 1 Sti Sithole. Replacements: 16 Andre-Hugo Venter, 17 Steven Kitshoff, 18 Sazi Sandi, 19 Adre Smith, 20 Ben-Jason Dixon, 21 Stefan Ungerer, 22 Wandisile Simelane, 23 Damian Markus.