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Luke Cowan-Dickie scored his 3 tries earlier being substituted successful the 50th minute| Exeter: (32) 44 |
| Tries: Ewers, Cowan-Dickie (3), Slade. Kata Pens: J Simmonds (2); Cons: J Simmonds (4) |
| Bulls: (7) 14 |
| Tries: Jacobs, C Smith Cons: Steyn (2) |
Exeter Chiefs thrashed the Bulls to assertion a bonus-point triumph successful the Heineken Champions Cup astatine Sandy Park.
Former England hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie grabbed a hat-trick of tries arsenic the Chiefs won for a 2nd consecutive week.
Dave Ewers, Henry Slade and Solomone Kata - connected his European debut - besides crossed. Joe Simmonds kicked 14 points.
Stravino Jacobs and Chris Smith crossed for the Pretoria-based Bulls broadside successful their archetypal distant quality successful the Champions Cup.
The South Africans had beaten Lyon 42-36 connected their contention debut a week earlier but, with manager Jake White having near retired respective cardinal players, they were nary lucifer for the hosts.
They had started brightly erstwhile winger Jacobs sliced done the Exeter defence successful the sixth infinitesimal for a effort converted by experienced erstwhile Springbok Morne Steyn.
But Exeter responded quickly, with Ewers powering implicit from adjacent scope for his 2nd effort successful consecutive weeks, earlier Cowan-Dickie went implicit from a line-out.
The hooker's 2nd effort connected the half-hour people was a repetition of the archetypal and, aft Slade ended a slick determination the location side, they had clinched their bonus constituent by half-time.
Cowan-Dickie's treble was sealed aft the 29-year-old took a speedy tapped punishment himself to tube implicit aboriginal successful the 2nd period.
Centre Smith latched onto a astute footwear from Steyn for the Bulls' 2nd converted try, but substitute Kata crashed implicit soon aft the restart to assertion the Chiefs' sixth try.
The Devon broadside finished with 13 players aft they had utilized each their replacements, anterior to an wounded for Will Becconsall and precocious yellowish paper for Ewers.
But Rob Baxter's broadside volition beryllium successful a beardown presumption successful Pool A erstwhile the 2 sides conscionable again successful Pretoria connected 14 January.
Line-ups
Exeter: Hogg, Nowell, Slade, O'Loughlin, Woodburn, J Simmonds, Maunder, Sio, Cowan-Dickie, Williams, Jenkins, Gray, Ewers, Tshiunza, S. Simmonds.
Replacements: Yeandle, Hepburn, Iosefa-Scott, van Heerden, Grondona, Becconsall, Kata, Hodge.
Bulls: Simelane, Novuka, Gans, C Smith, Jacobs, Steyn, van der Linde, D Smit, du Plessis, van Rooyen, Ludwig, Swanepoel, Carr, Uys, W. Steenkamp.
Replacements: Van Zyl, Gqoboka, Lombard, Hanekom, Maqondwana, Johannes, Bannies, Mostert.
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