HIGHLIGHTS-Super Rugby week two
The New South Wales Waratahs survived a huge scare to claim their first win of the season in a scrappy match against the Sunwolves at Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium. Sunwolves winger Gerhard van den Heever scored two tries, with his second in the 70th minute raising the Tokyo-based team's hopes of snatching an unlikely win.
Flyhalf Hayden Parker slotted the conversion into the teeth of a fierce breeze to trim the Sunwolves' lead to a point but missed a drop-goal attempt in the dying minutes, allowing the Sydney-based Waratahs to hang on for an unconvincing win. Wallabies fullback Israel Folau scored two first-half tries but the Waratahs may take little else from their error-strewn display.
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Dillon Hunt scored a match-winning try with six minutes remaining as the Higlanders had to fight back for the second successive week before recording victory over the Reds in Dunedin. Shannon Frizell scored two tries while Rob Thompson and Ben Smith also crossed for the Highlanders, who looked to have taken control of the game just before halftime but made numerous errors that allowed the young Reds team to stay in the match.
Winger Chris Feauai-Sautia, scrumhalf Moses Sorovi, lock Izack Rodda and debutant prop Feao Fotuaika scored tries for the visitors. (Reporting by Greg Stutchbury and Ian Ransom; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly)
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