Hurricanes send Brumbies statement in upset win

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A stunning solo effort from No.8 Brayden Iose completed the comeback arsenic the Hurricanes rallied from 16 points down to shock the Crusaders 27-26 successful Wellington connected Saturday.

The Hurricanes scored 24 points without reply until replacement winger Chay Fihaki scored a consolation effort aft the fulltime siren to assertion their biggest triumph of the Super Rugby Pacific play 1 week retired from the finals series.

Down 19-3 aft conscionable 30 minutes, the Hurricanes looked dormant and buried.

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But momentum swung successful the location team's favour erstwhile centre Billy Proctor scored a pivotal effort close earlier fractional time.

From there, the 2nd fractional was each the Hurricanes.

Halfback Cam Roigard chopped the shortage with a effort nether the posts, his ninth of the campaign, aft taking a abbreviated walk from Ardie Savea.

Ardie Savea of the Hurricanes runs with the ball. (Getty)

Fullback Josh Moorby past scored successful the near country with 11 minutes remaining to springiness the Hurricanes the pb for the archetypal clip successful the match.

Iose got the assemblage connected their feet erstwhile the No.8 picked the shot up from the backmost of a scrum, fended disconnected Scott Barrett and brushed disconnected different tackler earlier diving implicit successful the close country to implicit the comeback, giving the Hurricanes a connection triumph heading into a pugnacious distant quarter-final against the Brumbies adjacent weekend.

Despite claiming their astir awesome triumph of the season, the Hurricanes were incapable to amended connected 5th spot and volition present caput crossed the Tasman to look the Brumbies successful the archetypal circular of the finals series.

Big moment

Proctor swung momentum successful the Hurricanes' favour erstwhile helium dived crossed to people 1 infinitesimal earlier halftime. Roigard flung the shot retired wide to Jordie Barrett, who got connected the extracurricular of Leicester Fainga'anuku and fended him disconnected earlier slipping an offload for Proctor to people successful the close corner.

MVP

Roigard thrust his sanction backmost into the speech arsenic an All Blacks bolter with a sublime show astatine No.9 and came distant with a important effort nether the posts, igniting the Hurricanes' 2nd fractional comeback.

Match rating

9/10. Game of the season? The last circular crippled had thing riding connected it with the Crusaders and Hurricanes' locked into 2nd and 5th respectively, but they inactive produced a classic, rewarding the large assemblage that packed into Sky Stadium for the Hurricanes' last location game.

Big picture

By finishing second, the Crusaders volition big either Fijian Drua oregon Western Force successful the quarter-finals adjacent play portion the Hurricanes, bouyed by Saturday's win, volition marque the trek crossed the Tasman to look the Brumbies, a overmuch tougher challenge, aft finishing extracurricular the apical four. Interestingly, the Crusaders really mislaid their past lucifer against the Drua, played implicit successful Fiji successful circular three, portion the Hurricanes bushed the Brumbies erstwhile they met successful Wellington successful circular 10.

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