The Blue Bulls scored eight tries in a dominant 50-3 win over the Canon Eagles in Tokyo on Friday.

Playing in their final Currie Cup warm-up game, the Bulls overpowered their Japanese counterparts, opening up a 14-3 lead at half-time after tries to Deon Stegmann and Dean Greyling.

In a one-sided second half, Lappies Labuschagne, Burger Odendaal (two tries), Hanro Liebenberg, RG Snyman and Dan Kriel all scored as the Bulls racked up 50 points.

The Bulls will open their Currie Cup campaign with a clash against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein on 8 August. 

Blue Bulls – 15 Warrick Gelant, 14 Travis Ismaiel, 13 Dries Swanepoel, 12 Burger Odendaal, 11 Jamba Ulengo, 10 Louis Fouché, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Arno Botha, 7 Lappies Labuschagne (c), 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Jacques du Plessis, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Jaco Visagie, 1 Dean Greyling.
Subs: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Andrew Beerwinkel, 18 RG Snyman, 19 Roelof Smit, 20 Ivan van Zyl, 21 Tian Schoeman, 22 Willam Small-Smith, 23 Nqoba Mxoli, 24 Hanro Liebenberg, 25 Dan Kriel, 26 Jannes Kirsten, 27 Kefentse Mahlo.

Canon Eagles – 15 Michael Bond, 14 Kojiro Fujichika, 13 Richard Havili, 12 Ryohei Mitomo, 11 Tokiro Harada, 10 Taku Wada (c), 9 Takeru Fukui, 8 Karl Lowe, 7 Naoto Shimada, 6 Murphy Leilua, 5 Takashi Kikutani, 4 Suguru Hidaka, 3 Akira Jo, 2 Mitsugu Yamamoto, 1 Takatoshi Sugawara.
Subs: 16 Yusuke Niwai, 17 Kanta Higashionna, 18 Yasuo Yamaji, 19 Shohei Yuzawa, 20 Ryouta Suginaga, 21 Ryota Takagi, 22 Michiyoshi Morita, 23 Masaru Sugaya, 24 Kazuhiko Usami, 25 Muneyuki Uematsu, 26 Naoshi Shimizu, 27 Taisei Hayashi, 28 Kenyu Fujimoto.

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