Glasgow demolish Leinster

Glasgow landed a comfortable 30-6 victory over under-strength Leinster to keep their Magners League play-off ambitions alive.

The Scottish side posted three tries courtesy of Bernardo Stortoni and Rob Dewey, who secured a double, while Dan Parks booted three conversions and three penalties.

Visitors Leinster, who are already guaranteed a top-four finish and have a Heineken Cup semi-final clash in eight days time, fielded a largely second-string starting line-up.

Inexperience

And inexperience proved costly to the visitors as Rhys Ruddock, Trevor Hogan, Dom Ryan and Mike Ross all endured stints in the sin-bin.

It was not all plain sailing for Glasgow, however, as they made poor decisions early on, with scrum-half Chris Cusiter a notable offender.

Leinster failed to take advantage though, fumbling two penalties inside 12 minutes as full-back Ian Madigan failed to deliver.

Glasgow drew first blood after 23 minutes when Stortoni stormed over for a try which was converted by Parks.

The visitors refused to go down quietly, however, as Madigan landed two penalties inside two minutes to cut the deficit to 7-6.

The hosts were dominant heading into the break, though, with two penalties from Parks extending their advantage to 13-6.

Leinster found themselves down to 13 four minutes after the restart when Hogan was sin-binned for a high tackle on Cusiter.

Parks missed the resulting penalty but made up for it when he fired over his third three-pointer of the evening six minutes later.

Short-handed

Leinster were short-handed for much of the second half due to indiscipline, and Glasgow took advantage to dominate their opponents' 22.

However, the only tries came from Dewey, who posted his first on 63 minutes when dashing over from a line-out.

The substitute then delivered another effort at the death to seal Glasgow's victory and boost them to second in the standings.