Glasgow Warriors (10) 16
Tries: Beattie
Cons: Gregor
Pens: Gregor 3.
Connacht (6) 15
Drop goals: Donnelly 2
Pens: Donnelly 3.

Glasgow broke their Magners League losing streak courtesy of a late Colin Gregor penalty against Connacht.

Tim Donnelly gave the visitors the lead with a penalty after four minutes and Gregor replied with a 40-metre kick.

Connacht suffered a blow when Colm Rigney was sin-binned and the hosts capitalised with a Johnny Beattie try.

Gregor added the conversion, but a Donnelly drop goal reduced the deficit. Both players scored further points with the boot as Warriors held on to win.

Connacht threatened to come back into the game after the break, but Gregor restored the seven-point advantage with his second penalty after Moray Low's burst had forced an infringement.

Donnelly responded with a further kick before Gregor looked certain to score after Stevie Swindall and Low combined to send the scrum-half darting towards the line.

However, Ofisa Treviranus produced a try-saving tackle to knock the ball from the Glasgow player's grasp.

The deficit was reduced to a single point when Donnelly landed his second drop goal of the night with a superb 45-metre effort.

Gregor failed to ease the nerves when he missed his third penalty of the match and Donnelly put the visitors ahead with a penalty from the halfway line.

Gregor atoned for his earlier profligacy with an easy kick in the 80th minute but Warriors endured a nervous final few minutes of stoppage-time before clinching their first win.



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Glasgow: Stortoni, M. Evans, Morrison, Gibson, Shaw, Gregor, Pinder, Kalman, Milligan, M. Low, Newman, Kellock, Swindall, Eddie, Beattie. Replacements: O'Hare for Shaw (51), Prescott for Kalman (70), McArthur for Milligan (68). Subs not used: Turner, Vernon, Forrester, Barrow.

This article was posted on 5-Oct-2007, 22:09 by Hugh Barrow.