Lions crush Namibians

Windhoek - Golden Lions No 8 Ruaan Lerm was deservedly named man-of-the-match for his hat-trick of tries during his side’s 53-3 win over Namibia’s Welwitschias in the Hage Geingob Stadium in Windhoek on Friday night, the supersport.com website reports.

The Lions, last year’s beaten finalists, opened their 2015 campaign with a convincing win over the Namibians who are returning to the Vodacom Cup in a bid to prepare their locally based club players to a higher level of competition ahead of the World Cup starting in September.

Scrumhalf Ricky Schroeder’s visitors ran in five unopposed tries to take a 34-3 lead at halftime.