The Cheetahs struck a crucial pre-season blow when they edged the Stormers 22-14 in their Super Rugby warm-up match at Newlands on Saturday.

In what was a stop-start encounter the teams score one try each - both coming after the break, with the Cheetahs having held a 9-6 lead at half-time.

Neither side managed to put too many phases together in a game that produced a lot of kicking.

The Cheetahs played a territorial game and the Stormers struggled to find a way through their defensive lines.

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The scorers:

For the Stormers:
Try: Fourie
Pens: Catrakilis 3

For the Cheetahs:
Tries: Jansen
Cons: Goosen
Pens: Goosen 3, S E
DG: Goosen

The teams:

Stormers: 15 Gerhard van den Heever, 14 Danie Poolman, 13 JP du Plessis, 12 Marcel Brache, 11 Ederies Arendse, 10 Demetri Catrakilis, 9 Nic Groom, 8 Nizaam Carr, 7 Siya Kolisi, 6 Schalk Burger (captain), 5 De Kock Steenkamp, 4 Rynhardt Elstadt, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Deon Carstens.
Replacements - from: Siyabonga Ntubeni, Steven Kitshoff, Brok Harris, Eben Etzebeth, Don Armand, Nick Fenton-Wells, Rohan Kitshoff, Johannes Conradie, Kurt Coleman, Michael van der Spuy, Berton Klaasen.

Cheetahs: 15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Dusty Noble, 13 Robert Ebersohn, 12 Andries Strauss, 11 Rocco Jansen, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Piet van Zyl, 8 Davon Raubenheimer, 7 Philip van der Walt, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 Izak van der Westhuizen, 4 Andries Ferreira, 3 WP Nel, 2 Adriaan Strauss (captain), 1 Marcel van der Merwe.
Replacements - from: Ryno Barnes, Lourens Adriaanse, George Earle, Ashley Johnson, Marnus Hugo, Sias Ebersohn, Willie le Roux, Philip Snyman, Ryno Benjamin, François Uys.

Referee: Craig Joubert
Assistant referees: Matt Kemp, Marc van Zyl

By Paul Dobson