Stade Montois mount to the Top
Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:50
Mont-de-Marsan beat Racing-Métro of Paris 32-23 to climb back into France's Top 14. They will join Toulon. But it took extra time to do it.
Toulon ended top of Pro D2. The four sides below them had to compete to be the second team promoted. They had come third in Pro D2 and beat Lyon who had come fourth while Racing who had come second beat La Rochelle.
This set up a decider in Limoges on Saturday, which Stade Montois won, scoring four ties to three to do so.
What a thrilling, seesaw match.
At half-time Racing led 15-13. At the end of regulation time the teams were locked at 20-all.
Jonathan Wisniewski, Racing's flyhalf, goaled a penalty to give his side the lead but then Stade Montois scored two tries, the first by fullback Florent Cazeaux, which Yannick Lafforge converted, the second by wing Jean-Marc Mazzoneto.
Scorers:
For Mont-de-Marsan:
Tries: Mazzoneto,
Cazeaux, Duthil, Suta
Cons: Lafforgue, Arrayet 2
Pens: Arrayet 2
For Racing-Metor:
Tries: Hehea, Vakaola, Bobo
Cons: Wisnievski
Pens: Wisnievski 2
Teams:
Mont-de-Marsan: 15 Florent Cazeaux, 14 Jean-Marc Mazzoneto, 13 Yannick Lafforgue, 12 Alban Genthieu, 11 Damien Cler, 10 Benoît Arrayet, 9 Lionel Dutilh, 8 Jérôme Dhien, 7 Marc Giraud, 6 Julien Tastet, 5 Jocelino Suta, 4 Jeandré Mynhardt, 3 Sébastien Ormaechea, 2 Laurent Dehez, 1 Nicolas Etcheverry.
Replacements: 16 Romain Lauga, 17 Pieter Grobler, 18 Laurent Travini, 19 Guillaume Leleu, 20 Jérôme Carré, 21 Baptiste Chedal Bornu, 22 Irakli Machkhaneli
Racing-Métro: Brent Ward, Sireli Bobo, Ludovic Valbon, Thomas Lombard (captain), Jonathan Wisnievski, Agustin Pichot, Jones
Qovu, Mani Vakaola, Benjamin Russell, Jonny Leo'o, Simon Raiwalui, David Auradou, Andrea Lo Cicero, Mickael Coetzee
Replacements: Mikaele Tuugahala, Carlo Festuccia, Michel Dieudé, Keleokolio Hehea, Jean-Frédéric Dubois, Julian Vulakoro
Referee: Didier Mene
Touch judges: Jean-Pierre Pellaprat, Cédric Marchat
Assessor: Christian Cortey, Jean-Marie Peyramaure, Francis Palmade
Television match official: Serge Marzullo
