A powerful performance from Western Province saw them claim a comfortable 18-12 victory over Border to retain their South Africa women's Interprovincial competition title at the BCM Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Border were well in the game during a tight first half and were perhaps unlucky to go into the break down 13-12 after arguably edging the play.
But the second half belonged completely to Province who scored straight after the restart and then spent the majority of the half camping deep in Border's territory, with only solid defence keeping the hosts in the match.
Western Province started the match well, with some good early play in the Border 22m, but good defence kept the visitors out.
Border then started working their way into the match, led by arguably their best player, flyhalf Zintle Mpupha who enjoyed a good game.
It was Mpupha's hard work that saw Border take the lead in the 14th minute, making two breaks, first into the Province half and then into their 22m, where she was tackled just short.
A few phases later the ball was then in Mpupha's hands again, with her giving the final pass to inside centre Aphiwe Ngwevu to crash over next to the right hand uprights, with Mpupha adding the extras for a 7-0 lead.
Province then came close to scoring in the 23rd minute, finding themselves on the Border line, with the ref adjudging that the ball was lost forward.
The visitors then finally got on the score board in the 28th minute, after they earned a penalty at the breakdown on Borders 22m straight in front of the post, with flyhalf Kirsten Conrad slotting the penalty.
Four minutes later Province took the lead out of no where, as from a scrum just in their own half they kicked the ball ahead into Borders 22m where right wing Simamkele Namba made a mess of picking up the ball, knocking it back which allowed Province inside centre Selladean Pieterse to kick the loose ball ahead over the try line and dive on it for an unconverted try and 8-7 lead.
A crazy end to the half then saw Border retake the lead after some good play in the visitors 22m ending with Thuliswa Capa crashing over for an unconverted score with a minute in the half left.
However Province then replied as Border lost the ball after the half time hooter, allowing them to counter down the right hand touchline and score through fullback Vuyolwethu Maqholo in the corner, with the missed conversion leaving them 13-12 up.
The second half then started with a bang for Province, as they attacked from the kick off, getting into Borders 22m and then finding space wide on the right where outside centre Veroeshka Grain went over in the right hand corner for another unconverted try to give them some breathing room.
The rest of the half then saw Province spending the majority deep in Borders half attacking, while the hosts defended desperately until the final whistle brought an end to proceedings...