Top 14 - Round-up: Toulouse impress

Eurosport - Sun, 08 Jun 07:53:00 2008

Toulouse earned an imposing victory over visiting Bourgoin as Yahoo! Eurosport wrap up all of the action from the penultimate day of the Top 14 championship.

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Tongan Finau Maka scored twice as Toulouse ran out eight tries to crush visiting Bourgoin 57-17.

Castres claimed victory in the Tarn derby to secure a berth in next year's Heineken Cup with a 20-16 win over visiting Albi .

Josefa Tekori's second-half try and Romain Teulet's conversion sealed the victory and at least sixth place in the table for the hosts.

Stade Français ended Biarritz's hopes of joining them in the semi-finals after beating the visitors 22-18 in Paris.

Perpignan thus secured the last semi-final place after beating Dax 21-10 on the road.

Clermont again missed the chance to clinch the top place in the table after suffering a 36-8 demolition at the hand of Basque hosts Bayonne.

Montpellier beat Montauban 12-8, but remained two points behind them in the table after the visitors earned the defensive bonus point.

Montpellier now need a win in Auch next week and a Montauban loss to Sapiac to have any hope of earning the seventh and final Heineken Cup place.

Brive's 40-26 crushing of Auch sees them climb two places in the table to tenth as the hosts outscored their rivals five tries to two.

Reuters

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