Pau Looks up in the Final Sprint of the Top 14

Victorious of Toulon (25-21) Saturday afternoon at the Hameau, the Paloise Section, ninth in the rankings, can still aim for a sixth qualifying place for the final phase. But the path seems perilous, with a trip to Vannes and the reception of La Rochelle.

Under the Béarnais sun, Pau dominated (25-21) a Toulon both febrile and unpredictably offensive in the first period. For the second act and with the entrance of a fresh bench, the RCT believed well in a crazy uphill, in...